Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Justin Trudeau: Very powerful mechanism
“A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues.” —Justin Trudeau.
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Shaquille O’Neal: Unchecked ego
“An unchecked ego will sooner or later be bad for business.” —Shaquille O’Neal.
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Marcus Aurelius: Love and opinion
“We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Simon Sinek: Employees and customers
“The employees must love the company before the customers ever will.” —Simon Sinek.
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Piers Morgan: Ego
“Ego is your friend. If you don’t believe in yourself folks, nobody else will.” —Piers Morgan.
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Elizabeth Holmes: Empowered
“Patients are empowered by having better access to their own health information, and then by owning their own data.” —Elizabeth Holmes. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/elizabeth_holmes_676262
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Julian Burnside: Shimmer of the numinous
“Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the needs and activities of our mundane lives. But few would deny that there is another dimension of human existence which transcends the mundane: call it the soul, the spirit: it is that part…
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G K Chesterton: Nothing wrong
“The man who sees nothing wrong in himself is the one man who is really wrong.” —G K Chesterton.
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Johnny Noble: Pinnacle of manhood
“The pinnacle of manhood on Earth is experiencing genuine desire from beautiful women. Genuine.” —Johnny Noble.
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Lili Reinhart: Criticism
“People are going to criticize you no matter what, so I’m going to say whatever the hell I want to say.” —Lili Reinhart.
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Billie Eilish: Strong perspectives
“In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you’re a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that’s so lame.” —Billie Eilish.
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Tamron Hall: Hip hop
“We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it’s done to our black girls, especially…
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J R R Tolkien: Confusions and impossibilities
“I wisely started with a map and made the story fit… the other way about lands one in confusions and impossibilities.” — J. R. R. Tolkien.
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Wendy Williams: Learning and entertaining
“Learning and entertaining can go hand-in-hand.” —Wendy Williams.
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Hiram Johnson: First casualty of war
“The first casualty when war comes is truth.” —US Senator Hiram Johnson.
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Nancy Bird Walton: Beauty of the air
“The beauty of the air, from the air… You haven’t seen Australia unless you see it from the air. The coastline, the colours of the inland. The claypans, the forests. It’s just all so beautiful. You’d never see that from the road. People climb mountains to see these things. You see that every time you…
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David Foster Wallace: Everyone worships
“In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.” —David Foster Wallace.
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Aswath Damodaran: Big acquisition
“I have 53 stocks in my portfolio, and I have one trigger that will lead me to sell the stocks right away. You do a big acquisition, I’m out of your stock. I don’t care what justification you give me. Because I know my history. If you do a big acquisition, the odds are loaded…
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Marcus Aurelius: Celebrate behaving like a human
“Not to feel exasperated, or defeated, or despondent because your days aren’t packed with wise and moral actions. But to get back up when you fail, to celebrate behaving like a human—however imperfectly—and fully embrace the pursuit that you’ve embarked on.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Simon Sinek: Own private megaphone
“Your work is your own private megaphone to tell the world what you believe.” —Simon Sinek.
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John Candy: Overcome anything
“As long as you can savor the humorous aspect of misery and misfortune, you can overcome anything.” —John Candy.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Money
“Money corrupts those who talk (& write) about it more than those who earn it.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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George Gamow: Five billion years to make man
“It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!” —George Gamow, physicist and cosmologist (4 Mar 1904-1968).
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John C Maxwell: Desire to become exceptional
“Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.” ― John C. Maxwell.
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John C Maxwell: Completing one another
“To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.” ― John C. Maxwell.
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Alicia Vikander: Hundred nice words
“You can hear a hundred nice words about yourself, and you’ll only remember the one bad one.” —Alicia Vikander.
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Roy T Bennett: Problem
‘After the morning lecture, a student approached the Master and said, “I have a problem, will you solve it for me?” The Master said, “Sure, after the afternoon lecture.” After the afternoon lecture, the student went to the Master and said “Master, can you solve it now?” The Master said, “Sure, after the evening lecture.”…
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C S Lewis: Some distraction or other
“If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.” —C S Lewis.
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James B Jordan: Superficial understanding
“When God says to do or not do some physical thing with our bodies, it is important that we pay heed because this is one of His ways of dealing with us in a total fashion. It shows a very superficial understanding of human existence to say, ‘Well, what matters is my heart attitude, not…
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Julianne Moore: Beauty and the Beast
“The nicest thing André ever said about me was ‘She’s Beauty and the Beast, I like the idea that nobody’s one or the other. You can be the regular girl and you can be the monster at the same time. They’re one and the same. The beast doesn’t have to be an evil or a…
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Nicole Scherzinger: Fearless yet vulnerable
“It’s important to be fearless yet vulnerable. It takes courage to do both.” —Nicole Scherzinger.
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Julia Cameron: Spirituality
“Spirituality can release blocks, lead you to ideas, and make your life artful. Sometimes when we pray for guidance, were guided in unexpected directions. We may want a lofty answer and we get the intuition to clean our bedroom. It can seem so humble and picky and that you dont necessarily think of it spiritual…
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Harold Hill: Pile up enough tomorrows
“You pile up enough tomorrows, and you’ll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don’t know about you, but I’d like to make today worth remembering.” —Harold Hill.
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Marcus Aurelius: How easy
“How easy it is to repel and to wipe away every impression which is troublesome or unsuitable, and immediately to be in all tranquility.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Stella Parton: Peace is contentment
“Peace is contentment and I think that contentment is rather underrated.” —Stella Parton.
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Thomas Rhett: Shredded
“I would love to get shredded or whatever you want to call it, but at the same time, I really enjoy treating myself to a cheat meal more than once a week. I’ll eat a piece of bread, or I’ll drink a beer, and I’ll have fun with my friends. For me, it’s really more…
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Ricky Gervais: Christian telling an atheist
“A Christian telling an atheist they’re going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they’re not getting any presents from Santa.” —Ricky Gervais.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger: Jealousy you have to earn
“You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.” —Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Grace Jones: Doing the unexpected
“If you are a fan of doing the unexpected, and I am, then it is an advantage to be highly skilled at changing your mind. If you do not want to limit yourself, then be prepared to change your mind—often.” —Grace Jones.
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Michelle Obama: Success
“Success isn’t about how your life looks to others. It’s about how it feels to you. That’s what it means to be true to yourself.” — Michelle Obama.
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G K Chesterton: Combine reason and religion
“Secularists talk as if the Church has introduced a sort of schism between reason and religion. The truth is the Church was actually the first thing that ever tried to combine reason and religion. There had never before been any such union between the priests and the philosophers.” —G K Chesterton.
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Pope Francis: New path
“Sometimes we may feel we are alone in facing difficulties. But, even if He doesn’t intervene immediately, the Lord walks by our side and, if we keep going forward, He will open up a new path.” —Pope Francis.
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C S Lewis: Miseries
“I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.” —C S Lewis.
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Shraddha Kapoor: Extremely mechanical
“Intimate scenes or a kiss is a very technical aspect of filmmaking. It is extremely mechanical.” —Shraddha Kapoor.
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Samuel L Jackson: Killing of one’s soul
“People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one’s soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.” —Samuel L. Jackson.
