Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Pope Gregory I: Most powerful charm of beauty
“When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.” —Pope Gregory I.
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Morrissey: Extreme inconvenience
“That’s why I do this music business thing, it’s communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.” —Morrissey.
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Sammy Davis Jr: Commitment versus fear
“You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.” —Sammy Davis Jr.
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Simon Sinek: For a lifetime
“Driving to succeed overnight may look and feel good, but it’s unstable. Setting out to succeed for a lifetime is the most stable success of all.” —Simon Sinek.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Not living truthfully
“If you know the truth and decline to speak the truth, you are not living truthfully.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Pico Iyer: More time and space
“I don’t need any more data; I need more time and space to sort out the data I have already.” —Pico Iyer.
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G K Chesterton: True news
“We do not want a newspaper to give us a vision of the world made perfect; we want a Church for that. We do not want a newspaper to give us good news; we want a Gospel for that. We want a newspaper to give us true news; not elevating news or improving news.” —G…
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Anil Ambani: Sharing emotion and feelings
‘I think you have to work with people, and when I talk about managing relationships, don’t think the derogatory ”managed relationships”. It is a question of sharing emotion and feelings. The common denominator of everything can’t be money, and it should not be money.’ —Anil Ambani.
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Malaika Arora: Fatigue
“Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.” —Malaika Arora.
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Reham Khan: Women in the workplace
“It amazes me to this day to think about women in the workplace who spend more time trying to damage other women’s images or opportunities than they do on improving their own abilities.” —Reham Khan, Reham Khan.
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David Bain: Accurate honesty to oneself
“Sanity is to be found in accurate honesty to oneself.” —David Bain.
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Jordyn Woods: Body positivity
“I feel like body positivity is loving yourself and wanting to be the best version of you. But working out doesn’t mean I’m not happy with my appearance, it just helps me get through things that are deeper than what’s on the outside.” —Jordyn Woods.
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Estée Lauder: Sell it hard
“I have never worked a day in my life without selling. If I believe in something, I sell it, and I sell it hard.” —Estée Lauder.
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Jill Konrath: Fresh ideas
“What differentiates sellers today is their ability to bring fresh ideas.” —Jill Konrath.
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Amelia Earhart: Paper tigers
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.” -Amelia Earhart.
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Frank Herbert: Fear
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there…
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Andrew Carnegie: Little laughter, little success
“There is little success where there is little laughter.” —Andrew Carnegie.
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Warren Buffett: Competitive position
“Generally speaking, if you lose your competitive position — the Packard Motor Company had the premier car in the mid-’30s. The Cadillac was not the premier — it was the Packard. And then they went downscale one year and they never came back. They jumped their sales that one year because everybody wanted to own…
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Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn: Men have forgotten God
“If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous Revolution that swallowed up some sixty million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.” —Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn.
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G K Chesterton: One-sided free thought
“If free thought means that we are not free to rebuke free-thinkers, it is surely a very one-sided sort of free thought. It means that they may say anything they choose about all we hold most dear, and we must not say anything we think in protest against all we hold most damnable.” —G K…
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G K Chesterton: God and goodness
“God is not a symbol of goodness. Goodness is a symbol of God.” —G K Chesterton.
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Trish Bertuzzi: Never use the word ‘sorry’
“Lean in, speak out, have a voice in your organization, and never use the word ‘sorry.’” -Trish Bertuzzi.
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Sheryl Sandberg: Just get on
“If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” -Sheryl Sandberg.
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Mark Hunter: Handling the opportunities right
“It’s not about having the right opportunities. It’s about handling the opportunities right.” -Mark Hunter.
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Jill Konrath: Pursue luck with a vengeance
“I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?” —Jill Konrath.
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Daniel Pink: Innate inner drive
“Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.” —Daniel Pink.
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George S Patton: Get out of my way
“We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.” -George S. Patton.
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Edith Wharton: Beware of monotony
“Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all deadly sins.” —Edith Wharton.
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Ryan Adams: Like a conversation
“To make a song is a gift, and once it’s done it keeps evolving and changing and becomes a tool to interact with other people. It’s like a conversation.” —Ryan Adams.
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Diane Keaton: Extended family
“…I also have an extended family. The people who stayed. The people who became more than friends; the people who open the door when I knock. That’s what it all boils down to. The people who have to open the door, not because they always want to but because they do.” —Diane Keaton, Then Again.
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Joe Biden: Corruption
“Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.” —Joe Biden.
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John Wayne: Father’s advice
“I’ve always followed my father’s advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.” —John Wayne.
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Ogden Nash: Conscientious man
“I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned.” —Ogden Nash.
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Jennifer O’Neill: Nemesis
“My nemesis – my downfall, if you will – was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.” —Jennifer O’Neill.
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Bernie Sanders: Government for all of us
“Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent – a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice – that struggle continues.” —Bernie Sanders.
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Karl Lagerfeld: Sacrifice
“Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.” —Karl Lagerfeld.
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Marquis de la Grange: Looking for an accomplice
“When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.” – Marquis de la Grange.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: Critics and art
“I don’t listen to what art critics say. I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.” —Jean-Michel Basquiat, artist.
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Epicurus: Slave of philosophy
“If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of philosophy.” —Epicurus.
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Tara Westover: Loving and missing
“You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them. You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.” Tara Westover, Educated.
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Mark Zuckerberg: Trusted friend
“Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a trusted friend.” –– Mark Zuckerberg.
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Shane Parrish: Intellectual hubris
“It’s intellectual hubris to think that with a few minutes of googling our opinions are on par with people who have spent their lives in a domain. And yet we’ve been taught that we are entitled to our own opinion and that it deserves equal weighting. Sure you hold your own opinion, but it doesn’t…
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Charlie Munger: Considerable defense
“Most people are going to get a very small real return from investment after considering inflation and taxes. I think that’s an iron law of the world and if, for a brief period, some of us do better than that, we ought to be very thankful. One of the great defenses to being worried about…
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Denise Scott Brown: Detrimental to children
“Nobody believes that domestic violence kills and nobody believes it is detrimental to children. This world has got to wake up. To me, if there is domestic violence, if the children see it or hear it, that to me is detrimental. Batterers should not have rights to children.” —Denise Scott Brown.
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Anthony Weiner: Despot least troublesome to us
“We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace the despot that’s least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things.” —Anthony Weiner.
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Roger Stone: Lines
“Nothing ruins the lines of a suit or blazer and makes you look more like a doofus than when your pockets are crammed with stuff – a wallet, a cell phone, keys, a calculator, a calendar, pens, etc.” —Roger Stone.
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Lara Logan: Care about them everywhere
“If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.” —Lara Logan.
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George Washington: Intimate with few
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.” —George Washington.
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Kim Kardashian: Style of jeans
“For me, skinny is just a style of jeans – not a goal.” —Kim Kardashian.
