Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Paul Fix: Unfamiliar territory
“The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.” —Paul Fix.
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Sharad Pawar: Prices, distress and market rates
“If prices drop, we have to protect farmers from distress; if prices rise, we should be ready to pay market rates.” —Sharad Pawar.
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Felicity Huffman: Beauty
“Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn’t good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.” —Felicity Huffman.
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Marcus Aurelius: Change
“Is any man afraid of change? What can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature? And canst thou take a bath unless the wood undergoes a change? And canst thou be nourished, unless the food undergoes a change? And can anything else that is useful be…
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Shreya Ghoshal: Music reality shows
“Music reality shows provide a platform to people who have talent and gives them visibility and exposure. It is a win-win situation for participants.” —Shreya Ghoshal.
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Seneca: Natural desires
“Natural desires are limited; but those which spring from false opinion can have no stopping-point. The false has no limits. When you are travelling on a road, there must be an end; but when astray, your wanderings are limitless. Recall your steps, therefore, from idle things, and when you would know whether that which you…
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Howard Marks: Thankful heart
“The philosopher Cicero said something beautiful. He said, ‘The thankful heart is not only the greatest of all the virtues, but it is the parent of all the other virtues.’ And I think what that means is that people who are lucky should thank their luck, acknowledge it and revel in it. I think it…
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G K Chesterton: Always partial
“The people who pretend to be impartial are always partial, whether they are judges or (worse still) historians.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Impartiality
“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Only lizards
“One of the eternal paradoxes of human politics is the fact that it is only the man who is brave enough to challenge dragons who can discover that they are only lizards.” —G K Chesterton.
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Joseph Sobran: Metaphorical violence everywhere
“A liberal can see metaphorical violence everywhere except in skull-crushing late-term abortions.” —Joseph Sobran.
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Edward Albee: Source material
“Your source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.” —Edward Albee.
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Marie Kondō: Person we are becoming now
“The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now, not for the person we were in the past.” —Marie Kondō, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing.
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Raye Montague: Change obstacles into challenges
“Change obstacles into challenges. You might have to step back and go a different direction, but you can achieve.” —Raye Montague.
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Christopher Thompson: Monday’s code
“Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday’s code.” – Christopher Thompson.
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Marcus Aurelius: Let not future things disturb you
“Let not future things disturb you, for you will come to them, if it shall be necessary, having with you the same reason which you now use for present things.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Simon Sinek: Competence and integrity
“Trust has two dimensions: competence and integrity. We will forgive mistakes of competence. Mistakes of integrity are harder to overcome.” —Simon Sinek.
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Douglas Adams: I don’t know the answer
“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer.” —Douglas Adams, author (11 Mar 1952-2001).
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Margaret Thatcher: Being powerful
“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.”- Margaret Thatcher.
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Rumi: No such thing as separation
“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul. There is no such thing as separation.” —Rumi.
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Dr. George Sheehan: Out on the roads
“Out on the roads, there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.” –Dr. George Sheehan.
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Douglas Adams: Ingenuity of complete fools
“A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” —Douglas Adams.
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Jennifer Lopez: Negativity
“If you keep hearing negative things about yourself, they start to seep into your consciousness and you start to feel like they’re true. They cloud who you know you really are and you can lose yourself.” —Jennifer Lopez, True Love.
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Jack Wild: Fame
“It’s very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you are. After a while you begin to think there must be some truth in it because all those people can’t be wrong.” —Jack Wild.
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Ann Coulter: Ouija board
“The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control.” —Ann Coulter.
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Marcus Aurelius: I must be emerald
“Whatever anyone does or says, I must be good, just as if the gold, or the emerald, or the purple were always saying this, whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my color.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Pete Davidson: Bombing
“I bombed so much as a standup that messing up doesn’t matter to me anymore. I kind of enjoy bombing sometimes – I try and make everybody hate me more. Like, once I know it’s not going well, I can just have fun.” —Pete Davidson.
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Naomi Campbell: Attention
“If you have to talk to more than three people about the same problem, you don’t want help, you want attention.” —Naomi Campbell.
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Kylie Minogue: Hindsight
“Hindsight is illuminating but not always what we want to see.” —Kylie Minogue.
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L J Smith: Song only you can understand
You don’t love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand. L.J. Smith, Secret Vampire.
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Rose McGowan: White stallions
“We need to look at why so many women believe a man is going to save us. It’s not because of evidence of saving. I haven’t seen a lot of dudes on white stallions pulling up to single women’s homes. In fact, I have seen most women get on their own damn stallion. It’s just…
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Iggy Azalea: Luxury
“Luxury lives in the finer details. It’s a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It’s a mint on your pillow before bed.” —Iggy Azalea.
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Frankie Shaw: Government assistance
“There’s this idea that motherhood is as American as apple pie, but yet we don’t support it with any government assistance.” —Frankie Shaw.
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Karen Gillan: No sense of being famous
“I have no sense of being famous – you’re just working. And then you’ll have a random day in London when you’ll do some press and it creeps into your awareness that this goes out – that what you do every day goes out to televisions right across the country.” —Karen Gillan.
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Anne Rice: Risk making a fool of yourself
“To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.” —Anne Rice.
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Phylicia Rashad: Good director
“The painting cannot see itself. You need the master craftsman to find the nuances and shade them just right. That’s where a good director comes in.” —Phylicia Rashad.
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Sharon Stone: Faking
“Women can fake an orgasm, but men can fake an entire relationship.” —Sharon Stone.
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Milo Yiannopoulos: Diagnostic list for sociopathy
“Shallow emotions. An incapacity to feel genuine love. A need for stimulation. Frequent verbal outbursts. Poor behavioural controls. These are just some of the things that social media are encouraging in all of us. They’re also a pretty comprehensive diagnostic checklist for sociopathy – in fact, that’s where I got the list.” —-Milo Yiannopoulos.
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Simon Sinek: Blazing a path
“To be innovative, we can’t look to what others have done. The whole idea of blazing a path is that there was no path there before.” —Simon Sinek.
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Warren Buffett: Anchoring
“Charlie is a huge believer in the idea that you don’t sit around sucking your thumb when something comes along that should be done that you pour into it. And that’s generally what we’ve tried to do. But there have been times — and it’s usually happened when I’ve started buying something at X and…
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Charlie Munger: Blowing opportunities
“At least we are constantly thinking about the past occasions when we blew opportunities. Since those don’t hit financial reports, the opportunities you had but didn’t accept, most people don’t bother thinking about them very much. At least that is a mistake we don’t make. We rub our own noses in our mistakes in blowing…
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Maren Morris: About as edgy you can get
“You either have to sing about being scorned by a lover or sing about thinking a boy is cute and wanting him to notice you. That’s about as edgy as you can get.” —Maren Morris.
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Woody Allen: Life backwards
“In my next life I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get that out of the way. Then you wake up in an old people’s home feeling better every day. You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, and then when you start work, you get…
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Whoopi Goldberg: Bullies
“Now, I’ve always known that there were bullies in the world. We’ve seen a lot of it in politics lately as well as in daily life. You see it where people who may be stronger, or bigger, or better with verbiage than other folks… show off. To me, that’s what bullying is, showing off. It’s…
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Marcus Aurelius: Impediment to action
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Michael Sonnenfeldt: Great opportunity
‘My partner used to say, a deal of a lifetime comes across your desk every week. You just have to be looking for it. So while there are dramatic changes going on in real estate, there are always misallocations and mispricing. So even in a down market, some assets will be marked down way below…
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Simon Sinek: Set forth anyway
“To be a pioneer is to stand on a shore, look out at a land we can’t see, know that we can’t see all the dangers and set forth anyway.” —Simon Sinek.
