Author: LINUS FERNANDES
-
Simon Sinek: All success starts with one
“All success starts with one. One step. One client. One order. One sale. While dreams of greatness are great, we must remember to appreciate the joy of the start.” —Simon Sinek.
-
Nina Kuscsik: Form of meditation
“I’ve always felt running is a form of meditation. Running enables us to stop our lives, to go out and find a safe place for ourselves.” —Nina Kuscsik.
-
G K Chesterton: Equally stupid
“I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. While the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.” —G K…
-
Victor Hugo: Humankind’s wounds
“Humankind’s wounds, those huge sores that litter the world, do not stop at the blue and red lines drawn on maps.” —Victor Hugo, poet, novelist, and dramatist (26 Feb 1802-1885).
-
Katie Price: All I want is a gentleman
“All I want is a gentleman. I’m sick to bloody death of bastards.” —Katie Price.
-
Chris Evans: I love things
“I consider myself a very romantic guy. I don’t necessarily consider romance to be isolated simply between two people. I’m romantic with my love of music or art or nature. I love things.” —Chris Evans.
-
Peter Farrelly: Confidence to try different things
“Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If there’s stress or tension, they won’t go out on a limb because they won’t want to embarrass themselves if they don’t feel completely comfortable.” —Peter Farrelly.
-
Cardinal George Pell: Brilliantly foolish
“Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.” —Cardinal George Pell.
-
John Legend: All men should be feminist
“All men should be feminist. If men care about women’s rights the world will be a better place.” – John Legend.
-
C S Lewis: God’s love and goodness
“God’s love, far from being caused by goodness in the object, causes all the goodness which the object has.” C S Lewis, The Problem of Pain.
-
Charlize Theron: Dark films
‘Well, life is dark. We live in a very dark world. When they call them “dark films” it annoys me, because they’re very real stories. They’re stories I have seen or experienced or witnessed, and coming from that place, that is the hope of humanity.’ —Charlize Theron.
-
Trevor Noah: Fishing rod
‘People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” What they don’t say is, “And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod.” That’s the part of the analogy that’s missing.’ —Trevor Noah, Born a…
-
Christopher Dawson: Claims the whole man
“If religion loses its hold on social life, it eventually loses its hold on life altogether. And this is what’s happened in the case of Europe. The secularized civilization is not content to dominate the outer world and leave man’s inner life to religion; it claims the whole man.” —Christopher Dawson.
-
Brie Larson: Ornate jackets
“I’m really not interested in acting as a facade, I’m interested in it as an emotional expression and as a transcendent experience for an individual. I find that a lot of people, a lot of young actors, haven’t gotten to the point where they’re comfortable being stripped down. They’re still interested in ornate jackets.” —Brie…
-
Glenn Close: What mental health needs
“What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation about illnesses that affect not only individuals, but their families as well.” —Glenn Close.
-
Irina Shayk: Longer dress
“In this modern world, in the 21st century, I really believe that if you have a baby, it doesn’t mean that you have to wear a longer dress.” —Irina Shayk.
-
Alex Honnold: More climbs than I can count
“I’ve walked away from more climbs than I can count, just because I sensed that things were not quite right.” – Alex Honnold.
-
Erykah Badu: I share what I say
“I don’t feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience’s ability to feel me.” —Erykah Badu.
-
Richard E Grant: Cannibal
“Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal!” —Richard E. Grant.
-
Karren Brady: Work relentlessly
“I work relentlessly to achieve a business goal. I believe that is the single most important reason for my success. It may be 2am, I may be exhausted, but I keep working until the job is finished. It takes self-discipline and energy, but you won’t meet anyone successful who doesn’t have them both. The good…
-
Spike Lee: Parents kill more dreams than anybody
“It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.” —Spike Lee.
-
Krysten Ritter: Target of gossip
“We all know what it feels like to be an outcast or a loner or to fall between the cracks. To be the target of gossip or people talking about you, or girls are ganging up on you. One minute, they’re your best friend; the next, they call you on three-way.” —Krysten Ritter.
-
G K Chesterton: Essence of love
“It is the essence of love to be sensitive: it is a part of its doom, and anyone who objects to the one must certainly get rid of the other. This sensitiveness, rising to an almost morbid sensitiveness, was the mark of all great lovers like Dante and all great patriots like Chatham.” —G K…
-
Paulo Coelho: Be a good person
“Be a good person, but don’t waste your time trying to prove it.” —Paulo Coelho.
-
George Bernard Shaw: Extreme form of censorship
“Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.” —George Bernard Shaw.
-
Marcus Aurelius: No impeding intentions or dispositions
“Our actions may be impeded . . . but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting.” —Marcus Aurelius.
-
Marcus Aurelius: Choose not to be harmed
“Choose not to be harmed — and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed — and you haven’t been.” —Marcus Aurelius.
-
Zoë Kravitz: Fashion
“Fashion is fun, and fashion is a form of art and self-expression. And I think it should have a wink-wink nature to it. For me, it’s about the way it makes you feel. If you want to feel sexy, you want to feel bright, you want to feel good. That’s what people are attracted to…
-
Marcus Aurelius: Ridiculous thing
“It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men’s badness, which is impossible.” —Marcus Aurelius.
-
Marcus Aurelius: Best revenge
“What injures the hive, injures the bee. The best revenge is not to be like that.” —Marcus Aurelius.
-
Rami Malek: Fear-inducing
“When you do something that people respond to, and then you start altering the blueprint for what worked, it’s pretty fear-inducing. But sometimes, you have to do that, in order to push the boundaries.” —Rami Malek.
-
Bradley Cooper: Shot at a silver lining
“This is what I believe to be true. You have to do everything you can. You have to work your hardest. And if you do, if you stay positive, then you have a shot at a silver lining.” —Bradley Cooper.
-
Jordan Peterson: Antithesis of opinionated
“What is your friend: the things you know, or the things you don’t know. First of all, there’s a lot more things you don’t know. And second, the things you don’t know is the birthplace of all your new knowledge! So if you make the things you don’t know your friend, rather than the things…
-
Viggo Mortensen: Be kind
“Be kind. It’s worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.” —Viggo Mortensen.
-
Selma Blair: Pretty easy audience
“Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It’s a pretty easy audience, and that’s been around for ages.” —Selma Blair.
-
Ed Latimore: In direct proportion
“How easily someone is offended is in direct proportion to how stupid they are.” —Ed Latimore.
-
Brie Larson: Hard and exciting
“There is so much to be gained from adulthood! Feelings just become so much deeper. The feeling of sadness and loss is much deeper than when you were a kid, but the feelings of love and happiness have also so much more dimension when you get older… That is what’s so hard and exciting about…
-
Alfonso Cuaron: When you strip hope from people
“When you strip hope from people, it leaves a void, and that void needs to be filled. And very likely, that void is going to be filled by an ideology… Hope and faith are so connected. Now, when ideology connects with faith, the ideology becomes an item of faith, not a point of discussion.” —Alfonso…
-
Bette Midler: Worst part of success
“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.” —Bette Midler.
-
Jason Momoa: Technique
“Everything has technique to it. So if there’s something you wanna try out, I think it’s always good to get a trainer or listen to people who know what they’re doing.” —Jason Momoa.
-
Olivia Colman: Equality and kindness
“I want everyone to know what they deserve in relationships: that they can demand equality and kindness. Because everyone will have a relationship at some point in their life. It’s what we all do, every day, and we need to know how to do it.” —Olivia Colman.
-
Rosamund Pike: Hardest time in the spotlight
“I always think that the people who have the hardest time in the spotlight are the people who have unearned fame, like the girlfriends of people who are famous or people who become figures of attention, not through their own merit.” —Rosamund Pike.
-
Emma Stone: Damn red velvet cupcake
“You’re a human being—you live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damn red velvet cupcake.” —Emma Stone.
-
Kristin Armstrong: Know who you are
“Do the things you used to talk about doing but never did. Know when to let go and when to hold on tight. Stop rushing. Don’t be intimidated to say it like it is. Stop apologizing all the time. Learn to say no, so your yes has some oomph. Spend time with the friends who…
