Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Gretchen Rubin: Actions, not outcomes
‘I think about actions, not outcomes. That way, I stay focused on the things I can control (more or less). So I don’t think about “making the book a success,” but “writing the best book I possibly can.”’ —Gretchen Rubin.
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Tom Ford: September 11th
“September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.” —Tom Ford.
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Kelly Clarkson: Public speaking
“When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public speaking and acting make me want to vomit. But I have never been nervous singing. When it comes to public speaking, I stumble on my words, sweat, and pull at…
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Henrik Ibsen: Money
“Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.” -Henrik Ibsen, playwright (20 Mar 1828-1906).
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Graham & Dodd: Security analysis
“Security analysis is a severely practical activity, and it must not linger over matters that are not likely to affect the ultimate judgment.” —Benjamin Graham and David Dodd.
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C S Lewis: Repentance
“Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms…surrendering. This process of surrender—this movement full speed astern—is what Christians call repentance.”
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A J Jacobs: Future self
“The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions.” —A J Jacobs.
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Simon Sinek: Good friends
“Good friends make us better people. They cheer us on when we hit bottom and keep us humble when we reach the top.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Lot of someones
“We can’t be everything to everyone, but we can be something to someone…even a lot of someones.” —Simon Sinek.
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Marc Andreesen: Selling systems
“[There are] misperceptions of the salesman as somebody who’s wearing a shiny suit selling somebody something that they don’t need. And so, we have a couple of responses to that. We have a specific response to that, which is actually the role of sales is…not to sell something you don’t need — it’s essentially to…
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Niccolo Machiavelli: Few experience what you really are
“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.” – —Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince.
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George Jean Nathan: Bad officials
“Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.” -George Jean Nathan, author and editor (14 Feb 1882-1958).
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John Updike: Fits into human hand
“Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback.” -John Updike.
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John Updike: Healthy adult male bore
“A healthy adult male bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.” —John Updike.
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Emilia Clarke: Juice diet
“There are no captions on red-carpet photos that say, ‘This girl trained for two weeks, she went on a juice diet, she has a professional hair and makeup person, and this dress was made for her.’ I just wish they’d say, ‘It ain’t the truth.’” —Emilia Clarke.
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Simon Sinek: First into danger
“Leaders volunteer to go first into danger. Their willingness to sacrifice for us is the reason we’re inspired to follow.” —Simon Sinek.
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Jeanine Pirro: First trolley to hell
“As someone who’s run for office five times, if the Devil called me and said he wanted to set up a meeting to give me opposition research on my opponent, I’d be on the first trolley to Hell to get it. And any politician who tells you otherwise is a bald-faced liar.” —Jeanine Pirro.
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G K Chesterton: Internal criticism
“Every patriot should criticize his own country, and be careful about intervening in the internal criticism of another country.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Freed ourselves from freedom
“In freeing ourselves from Christianity, we have only freed ourselves from freedom.” —G K Chesterton.
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Hailey Baldwin: Businesspeople
“The older supermodels sometimes don’t agree with the fact there is a new generation of models. We’re not saying we’re supermodels. I’d rather people look at us as businesspeople, and, yes, modeling is our business right now, but we’re not trying to take anybody’s spot, and we’re not trying to discredit the past.” —Hailey Baldwin.
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Brittany Daniel: Good-looking
“If you’ve been told all your life that you’re good-looking, people just flock around you and you never really have to try or have to learn an interesting craft, skill or hobby – or even have depth.” —Brittany Daniel.
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Simon Sinek: Ambition and leadership
“Ambition is refusing to quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others.” —Simon Sinek.
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Lilly Singh: Consistency speaks the truth
“Words lie; actions can lie too. Consistency speaks the truth.” —Lilly Singh, How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life.
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G K Chesterton: Frivolous
“The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason.” —G K Chesterton.
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James Gunn: Rule of invention
“One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it.” —James Gunn.
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James Madison: Instruments of tyranny
“The means of defence against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.” —James Madison.
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John Cage: Originality is necessary
“That one sees that the human race is one person (all of its members parts of the same body, brothers—not in competition any more than hand is in competition with eye) enables him to see that originality is necessary, for there is no need for eye to do what hand so well does.” —John Cage.
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Simon Sinek: Value of emotions
“The value of emotions comes from sharing them, not just having them.” —Simon Sinek.
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Marcus Aurelius: Heaps of sand
“Consider that as the heaps of sand piled on one another hide the former sands, so in life the events which go before are soon covered by those which come after.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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G K Chesterton: Catholicity
“No Catholic thinks he is a good Catholic; or he would by that thought become a bad Catholic.” —G K Chesterton.
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William Lamb Melbourne: Popular to unpopular
“It is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular is easy. . . but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.” —William Lamb Melbourne.
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Shunryu Suzuki: Only enlightened actions
“There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people. Only enlightened actions.” —Shunryu Suzuki.
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Simon Sinek: Magic
“A good question should never be wasted. The answer just might be magic.” —Simon Sinek.
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Marcus Aurelius: Third thing on top
“When you’ve done well and another has benefited by it, why like a fool do you look for a third thing on top— credit for the good deed or a favor in return?” —Marcus Aurelius.
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G K Chesterton: Rights and wrongs
“If a man uses a right wrongly, the answer is for everybody to use their rights rightly; not to give up all their rights on chance of curing the wrong.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Let the Chinese invade Europe
“What can make us realize our European philosophy once more? The foreigner. Let the Chinese invade Europe. I pray for it. I hope for it. Nay, I insist upon it.” —G K Chesterton.
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C S Lewis: Progress
“Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road.” —C S Lewis.
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Leonard Ravenhill: Holiness
“I can understand why the world is against holiness. I can’t understand why churches are against it.” —Leonard Ravenhill.
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Ryan Campbell: Commenting code
“Commenting your code is like cleaning your bathroom – you never want to do it, but it really does create a more pleasant experience for you and your guests.” – Ryan Campbell.
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Albert Einstein: Infinite
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” —Albert Einstein.
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Marcus Aurelius: Death overshadows you
“Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you’re alive and able — be good.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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G K Chesterton: Modern people
“Modern people, especially urban people, think that anything which has got itself printed has somehow passed an examination and received a diploma; has somehow, in fact, shown itself to be true.” —G K Chesterton.
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Joe Biden: Demand change
“No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It’s because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand – demand – demand change.” —Joe Biden.
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G K Chesterton: Read exclusively
“If the sentimental literature of the present day is a curse, it is not so much because it is read widely, as because it is read exclusively.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Sentimental literature
“lf sentimental literature is to be condemned it must emphatically not be because it is sentimental, it must be because it is not literature.” —G K Chesterton.
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Fr. Ronald Knox: Soul love
“The more a soul loves, the more it realizes its own sins; the more it realizes its own sins, the more it loves.” —Fr. Ronald Knox.
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G K Chesterton: Sentimentality
“Sentimentality ought not to be anything but a passing mood; people who are sentimental day and night are among the most atrocious of the enemies of society. Dealing with them is like seeing an interminable number of poetical sunsets going on in the early morning.” —G K Chesterton.
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Max Panzer: Empty
“Is your life Empty? – sugar, empty – TV, empty – MSM, empty – celebrities, empty – booze, empty – porn, empty – status, empty – vanity, empty – materialism, empty – gossip, empty – envy, empty First step… Empty your life of empty.” —Max Panzer.
