Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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G K Chesterton: Everything to someone
“How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone?” —G K Chesterton.
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Tina Turner: You can’t get hung up on age or beauty
“You can’t get hung up on age or beauty because you’re then always chasing after something you’ll never get back.” —Tina Turner.
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Jitendra Attra: Fear and joy
“Fear and Joy are two significant words. All you have to do is to increase the component of one and reduce the other.” —Jitendra Attra.
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Peter Frampton: You can only wake me up
“You can’t erase a dream, you can only wake me up.” —Peter Frampton.
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G K Chesterton: Woman a victim and nothing else
“It is utterly astounding to note the way in which modern writers and talkers miss this plain, wide, and overwhelming fact: one would suppose Woman a victim and nothing else.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: They want to destroy womanhood
“Most of the Feminists would probably agree with me that womanhood is under shameful tyranny in the shops and mills. But I want to destroy the tyranny. They want to destroy womanhood. That is the only difference.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Suffragist argument
“Under a thousand phrases and in a thousand forms the whole Suffragist argument seems to me to amount to this: Here is a thing which men do; and why should not women do it? That question seems to be the whole argument, and that question is rubbish.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Drudgery and enterprise
“We live in an age in which everything done inside a house is called ‘drudgery’ while anything done inside an office is called ‘enterprise.’” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Refusal to be feminine
“Feminism often means the refusal to be feminine.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Stenographers
“Ten million young women rose to their feet with the cry, We will not be dictated to: and proceeded to become stenographers.” —G K Chesterton.
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Meher Baba: What helping others can do
“No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.” —Meher Baba.
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Gary Sinise: Always keep the engine running
“Careers, like rockets, don’t always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.” —Gary Sinise.
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Dianne Feinstein: Nuclear weapons paradox
“Nuclear weapons present us with a paradox: We spend billions of dollars building and maintaining them in the hope that we never have to use them.” —Dianne Feinstein.
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Pat Riley: Compete even harder
“When you’re playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you’ll fight for the winners circle.” —Pat Riley.
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Sean Kross: Different cognitive load
“Reading a poem induces a different cognitive load compared to reading a novel.” —Sean Kross.
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Clark Gable: Dying’s as natural as living
“Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying’s as natural as living. The man who’s too afraid to die is too afraid to live.” —Clark Gable.
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Kanji Watanabe: Can’t afford to hate anyone
“I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.” —Kanji Watanabe.
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Warren Buffett: Volume trends for everybody
“It is true that in the packaged goods industry, volume trends for everybody — whether they’re fat or lean in their operation — volume trends are not good. And the test will be over time — you know, three, five years — are the operations which have had their costs cut, do they do poor,…
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Henry David Thoreau: Want of prudence
“Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference. What we need to know in any case is very simple.” —Henry David Thoreau.
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Eleanor Roosevelt: Deformity of vice
“Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.” —Eleanor Roosevelt.
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W Somerset Maugham: Old age has its pleasures
“Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.” —W. Somerset Maugham.
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Benjamin Franklin: Difference between failure and success
“The difference between failure and success is the difference between doing something almost right and doing something right.” – Benjamin Franklin.
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Marie Kondo: Why we can’t let something go
“But when we really delve into the reasons for why we can’t let something go, there are only two: an attachment to the past or a fear for the future.” —Marie Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing.
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Andre Maurois: Indifference of the soul
“Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.” —Andre Maurois.
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Fred Astaire: Start young
“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.” —Fred Astaire.
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Golda Meir: Old age
“Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.” —Golda Meir.
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G K Chesterton: Humility
“Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing, or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are, of immeasurable stature.” —G K Chesterton.
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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…
