Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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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.
