Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Elton John: Dangerous place
“When your persona begins to take over your music and becomes more important, you enter a dangerous place. Once you have people around you who don’t question you, you’re in a dangerous place.” —Elton John.
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Erin Davis: Make peace with messy relationships
“If you’re going to get connected, you’re going to have to make peace with messy relationships. You’re going to have to be okay with letting others in when you are at your worst and your life is a total train wreck. You also must be willing to turn the tables. When other people’s lives are…
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Katherine Johnson: STEM
“We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there will always be science, engineering, and technology. And there will always, always be mathematics.” —Katherine Johnson.
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Robert Kraft: Hard work and perserverance
“A lot of people have their big dreams and get knocked down and don’t have things go their way. And you never give up hope, and you really just hold on to it. Hard work and perserverance. You just keep getting up and getting up, and then you get that breakthrough.” —Robert Kraft.
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Steven Wright: French toast during the Renaissance
“I went to a restaurant that serves ‘breakfast at any time’. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.” ~ Steven Wright.
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Stevie Wonder: I am what I am
“I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage. I am what I am. I love me!” —Stevie Wonder, singer, musician, songwriter and record producer.
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Epicetus: As for sex
“As for sex, abstain as far as possible before marriage, and if you do go in for it, do nothing that is socially unacceptable. But don’t interfere with other people on account of their sex lives or criticize them, and don’t broadcast your own abstinence.” —Epicetus.
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Simon Sinek: Value of our lives
“The value of our lives is not determined by what we do for ourselves. The value of our lives is determined by what we do for others.” —Simon Sinek.
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George Washington: Overgrown military establishments
“Avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.” —George Washington, 1st US president, general (22 Feb 1732-1799).
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Stacey Charter: Hop off the straight and narrow
“Life is filled with so many exciting twists and turns. Hop off the straight and narrow whenever you can and take the winding paths. Experience the exhilaration of the view from the edge. Because the moments spent there, that take your breath away, are what make you feel truly alive.” —Stacey Charter.
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Thomas A Kempis: Keep only yourself before your eyes
“Where are your thoughts when they are not upon yourself? And after attending to various things, what have you gained if you have neglected self? If you wish to have true peace of mind and unity of purpose, you must cast all else aside and keep only yourself before your eyes.” —Thomas A Kempis.
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G K Chesterton: Own phraseology
“What is actually the matter with the modern man is that he does not know even his own philosophy; but only his own phraseology.” —G K Chesterton.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Those who say nothing
‘You can change the mind of someone who says “no”; never the minds of those who say nothing.’ —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Robert Mugabe: Human rights worldwide
“Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double standards will not.” —Robert Mugabe.
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Drake: Perfection
“‘Perfection’ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‘I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.’ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard…
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Steve Irwin: Sustainable use
“I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment.” —Steve Irwin.
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Stephanie Ruhle: Cheap stuff
“When you look at a company like Amazon, one of the reasons that Amazon is one of the most powerful companies in the world is because we want to buy cheap stuff. If Donald Trump were to change trade laws, we couldn’t buy the cheap stuff or in our Wal-Marts, they would cost a whole…
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A P J Abdul Kalam: Teaching
“Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.” —A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.
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Marcus Aurelius: Do less, better
“If you seek tranquillity, do less. Which brings a double satisfaction to do less, better.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Phaedrus: Old knives
“All the old knives that have rusted in my back, I drive in yours.” ~ Phaedrus.
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Simon Sinek: Understand ourselves
“Before we can claim to understand others, we have to really understand ourselves.” —Simon Sinek.
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C S Lewis: Great safety or great danger
“Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger – according to the way you react to it. And we have reacted the wrong way.” —C S Lewis.
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G K Chesterton: Family
“Hardly anybody dares to defend the family. The world around us has accepted a social system which denies the family. It will sometimes help the child in spite of the family; the mother in spite of the family; the grandfather in spite of the family. It will not help the family.” —G K Chesterton.
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David Foster Wallace: Voting
“There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some diehard’s vote.” —David Foster Wallace, novelist, essayist, and short story writer (21 Feb 1962-2008).
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Calvin Harris: Dundee versus London
“To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.” —Calvin Harris.
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Tucker Carlson: Reform follows crisis
“In politics, reform never comes before crisis.” —Tucker Carlson.
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Boy George: He ain’t listening
“An actor is a guy who, if you ain’t talking about him, he ain’t listening.” —Boy George.
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Matty Healy: Reading someone you love
“After reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write.” —Matty Healy.
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Julie Bishop: Best buy in public health today
“And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.” —Julie Bishop.
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Kelly Rowland: Celebrating each other’s growth
“I think the most beautiful thing is that we’re not parting because there were problems. We’re parting because we’re celebrating each others’ growth.” —Kelly Rowland.
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Freeman Dyson: Biological and cultural evolution
“Our double task is now to preserve and foster both biological evolution as Nature designed it and cultural evolution as we invented it, trying to achieve the benefits of both, and exercising a wise restraint to limit the damage when they come into conflict. With biological evolution, we should continue playing the risky game that…
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David Watson: Exaggeration of normal behavior
“There aren’t necessarily clear points of difference between what’s normal and abnormal. Abnormal behavior may just be an exaggeration of normal behavior.” —David Watson.
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Dottie Herman: Abnormal
“What we had was abnormal. People get used to abnormal times and then when they’re normal they think there’s something wrong.” —Dottie Herman.
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G K Chesterton: Merely Sentimentalist
“The very word Socialist has come very near to meaning merely Sentimentalist. It means a man not bold and logical enough to call himself a Communist.” —G K Chesterton.
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Carl Gustav Jung: Shrinking away from death
“Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.” —Carl Gustav Jung.
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Paul Allen: Much wider door to human progress
“The promise of artificial intelligence and computer science generally vastly outweighs the impact it could have on some jobs in the same way that, while the invention of the airplane negatively affected the railroad industry, it opened a much wider door to human progress.” —Paul Allen.
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Shane Parrish: Standardization
“One way companies gain leverage over people is through standardization, which makes it easy to substitute one person for another.” —Shane Parrish.
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Shane Parrish: Amplified by technology
“If variations in individual performance are amplified by the tools (technology) available (and those tools are getting better), then we can expect the gap between the most productive and least productive people in a society to increase over time.” —Shane Parrish.
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Abigail Spencer: Gratefulness
“Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we’ve poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually… a verb. It’s an activity.” —Abigail Spencer.
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Joan Ryan: Such idiots
“We are such idiots, We think everyone else has it all figured out. But we’re all stumbling around in dark rooms bumping into furniture and stifling our cries so no one will know.” —Joan Ryan.
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Hugh Jackman: It diminishes people
“I’ve always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.” —Hugh Jackman.
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Eminem: Probably don’t deserve any thanks anyway
“To the people I forgot, you weren’t on my mind for some reason and you probably don’t deserve any thanks anyway.” —Eminem.
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Rihanna: As an old woman
“When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.” —Rihanna, singer and songwriter.
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John Rawls: Duties of compassion and humanity
“Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.” —John Rawls.
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Peyton C March: Wonderful mythical law of nature
“There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life—happiness, freedom, and peace of mind—are always attained by giving them to someone else.” — Peyton C. March.
