Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Emily Levine: Recovering narcissist
“I am a recovering narcissist. I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it. It is actually drearier than self-love; it is unrequited self-love.” —Emily Levine.
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Luke Bryan: Career
“I refuse to be one of those artists who, 10 years from now, they’re bitter about the rise and the fall of their career. I understand that somewhere there’s a peak and a crest for me, and I’m going to enjoy all levels. I’m going to enjoy this ride that I’m on, and when it…
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Aisling Bea: Poison berry
“We are trained to remember the poison berry, not the berries that are nice, because that means you don’t go back to the poison berry. So that idea of finding the bad thing, or something that makes you feel bad, is how humans survived.” —Aisling Bea.
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Ed Latimore: Internet abuse
“If you tell me that blocking someone on social media is weak, I’m gonna assume you: 1) Had social media in high school (27 or younger) 2) Were raised no lower than middle-class 3) Never been in a real fight You’re so soft you think taking internet abuse is a mark of strength.” —Ed Latimore.
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Nick Jonas: Pressure and scrutiny
“Being a pastor’s kid comes with a lot of pressure and scrutiny. A lot of my dad’s sermons were about respect. It was a beautiful way to be taught about love and two people being equal.” —Nick Jonas.
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Kirstjen Nielsen: Asylum
“Asylum is for people fleeing persecution, not those searching for a better job. Yet our broken system – with its debilitating court rulings, a crushing backlog, and gaping loopholes – allows illegal migrants to get into our country anyway and for whatever reason they want. This gaming of the system is unacceptable.” —Kirstjen Nielsen.
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Tim Cook: History
“History rarely yields to one person, but think and never forget what happens when it does. That can be you. That should be you. That must be you.” —Tim Cook.
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Thomas A Kempis: Means of inward grace
“The more the flesh is weakened by suffering, the more is the spirit strengthened by means of inward grace.” —Thomas A Kempis.
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G K Chesterton: Idea of repentance
“We have lost the idea of repentance; especially in public things; that is why we cannot really get rid of our great national abuses of economic tyranny and aristocratic avarice.” —G K Chesterton.
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C S Lewis: Starved for meditation and true friendship
“We live in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.” —C S Lewis.
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Michael Feathers: One thing at a time
“Programming is the art of doing one thing at a time” – Michael Feathers.
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Aidan Quinn: Fires of everyday life
“Really, most of us just focus on what’s in front of us. We’re too busy putting out the fires of everyday life.” —Aidan Quinn.
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Aretha Franklin: Rough side of mountain
“It’s the rough side of the mountain that’s the easiest to climb; the smooth side doesn’t have anything for you to hang on to.” —Aretha Franklin.
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Marcus Aurelius: Power over your mind
“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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James Packer: Modern member of industrialized world
“Stop viewing China like it’s the Cold War. Start viewing them as a modern member of the industrialized world.” —James Packer.
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Charlotte Kirk: Never be afraid to hear people out
“Never be afraid to hear people out. You never know what might come of it. Inspiration comes from the least likely places sometimes. But you also have be your own filter. You’ll hear a lot more bad ideas and opinions than good ones, only you can decide which is which.” —Charlotte Kirk.
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Bob Chapman: Parenting is leadership
“Everything I learned about parenting is leadership and everything I learned about leadership was wrong.” —Bob Chapman.
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Luther Burbank: Jungle of weeds
“If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weeds.” —Luther Burbank, horticulturist (7 Mar 1849-1926).
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Warren Buffett: Temperament
“Phil Carret used to talk about having a ‘money mind,’ and I would call it a ‘business mind.’ And there are people…with identical IQs that are better adapted for one than the other. And the temperament is all important. I mean, if you can’t control yourself, no matter what the intellect you bring to the…
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Charlie Munger: Reading alone won’t do it
“I don’t know anybody who is wise who doesn’t read a lot. On the other hand, that alone won’t do it. You have to have a temperament, really, which grabs the correct ideas and does something with those ideas. And I think most people who read a lot don’t have the necessary temperament, and they…
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Ben Mendelsohn: Confessional culture
“I think now there’s much more of a confessional culture. That’s not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: ‘give ’em nothin.’ You don’t plead guilty.” —Ben Mendelsohn.
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Mario Batali: Kitchen
“The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.” —Mario Batali.
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Martha McSally: Deterrence
“The whole idea of deterrence is to convince your enemy that you are willing and able to make it so painful for them to continue on a threatening or bellicose course that they change their behavior.” —Martha McSally.
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Cillian Murphy: Sociopath
“Sociopath is a word that has sort of become shorthand for psychopath and there’s a distinct difference, it’s interesting if you look it up. Sociopath if you look at the medical definition, the profile of a sociopath is that they are supremely intelligent people that are also pathological liars, they have no moral structure and…
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Alex Trebek: Hundred dollars
“I don’t gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn’t give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.” —Alex Trebek.
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Luke Perry: Apple and medical devices
“Why doesn’t Apple stop for a year and make medical devices? When people talk about technology, that’s where I start to get a little hot under the collar because I know that it’s the key to solving some of the world’s biggest problems. Having a faster, thinner telephone is not one of the world’s biggest…
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G K Chesterton: Right to do a thing
“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.” —G K Chesterton.
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Henry Ward Beecher: Compassion
“Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.” – Henry Ward Beecher.
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Thomas A Kempis: Testimony of a good conscience
“The glory of a good man is the testimony of a good conscience. Therefore, keep your conscience good and you will always enjoy happiness, for a good conscience can bear a great deal and can bring joy even in the midst of adversity.” —Thomas A Kempis.
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Fr. Ronald Knox: Christian ascetism
“The aim of Christian asceticism is not to be without feelings, without preferences, without desires, like some Eastern fatalist. It is to subject our feelings, our preferences, our desires to the Will of God by a continual peaceful act of aspiration to Him.” —Fr. Ronald Knox.
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Joseph Sobran: Names
‘Critics don’t bother debating; they call me names, most of which (apart from the obscenities) can be summed up in the word bigot. If I oppose State racial favoritism, I’m a “racist.” If I laugh at feminism, I’m “sexist.” If I consider homosexuality a perversion, I’m a “homophobe”’. —Joseph Sobran.
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Larry Flon: Bad programs
“There is no programming language–no matter how structured–that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.” – Larry Flon.
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Brandon T Jackson: Real women, stand up
“Why don’t women have respect for themselves nowadays? What happen to the woman who learned her grandmama’s recipes and made her man sweet potato pie? I tell you, they dont make ’em like they used to. Will my real women stand up, please?” —Brandon T Jackson.
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Penny Marshall: Honesty helps
“Honesty helps. You get a long way in life as far as I’m concerned. You tell the truth, ask for help, instead of saying I know what I’m doing.” —Penny Marshall, actress and director.
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Marcus Aurelius: What you frequently hold in thought
“Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought, for the human spirit is colored by such impressions.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Simon Sinek: Human
“Great leaders don’t see themselves as great; they see themselves as human.” —Simon Sinek.
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Fred Rogers: When I’m angry
“But do you know what I do when I’m angry? I like to swim, and so I swim extra hard when I’m angry…There are many things that you can do when you’re angry that don’t hurt you or anybody else.” —Fred Rogers.
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Zed A Shaw: Programming
“Programming as an intellectual activity is the only art form that allows you to create interactive art. You can create projects that other people can play with, and you can talk to them indirectly. No other art form is quite this interactive. Movies flow to the audience in one direction. Paintings do not move. Code…
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Zed A Shaw: Pretty damn cool
‘I’ll say that learning to create software changes you and makes you different—not better or worse, just different. You may fi nd that people treat you harshly because you can create software, maybe using words like “nerd.” Maybe you’ll find that because you can dissect their logic, they hate arguing with you. You may even…
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Halle Berry: Cherry on the pie
“The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I’m the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don’t have a cherry.” —Halle Berry.
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Malcolm Guite: Cross of ash upon your brow
“Receive this cross of ash upon your brow Brought from the burning of Palm Sunday’s cross; The forests of the world are burning now And you make late repentance for the loss. But all the trees of God would clap their hands, The very stones themselves would shout and sing, If you could covenant to…
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Warren Buffett: Derivatives and risk
“Anytime you have incentives, with people who are quite smart, to mismark things, you’re going to get mismarks, or temptations to take on risk in an inappropriate manner. Originally with derivatives, the argument was made that it would disperse risk. That, you know, the Coca-Cola Company faced foreign exchange risk, or some bank faced, you…
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Ted Nelson: User interface
“A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.” – Ted Nelson.
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John Lithgow: Infantile senses of humor
“Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.” —John Lithgow.
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Sam Newman: Chatty communication, tight coupling
“A loosely coupled service knows as little as it needs to about the services with which it collaborates. This also means we probably want to limit the number of different types of calls from one service to another, because beyond the potential performance problem, chatty communication can lead to tight coupling.” —Sam Newman, Building Microservices:…
