Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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Jane Harper: Old-fashioned misogyny
“Nothing like old-fashioned misogyny to make the ignorant turn down good advice.” —Jane Harper, The Dry.
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Tara Conklin: Gift of direction
“There is a certain kind of man who is forever searching. He wanders from place to place, he looks hard into the eyes of women and men in every town, maybe he scratches the earth or wields a gun, remedies illnesses or writes books, and there is always a vague emptiness within him. It is…
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Gwenda Bond: Full of adrenaline and failure
“Performers are never more unpredictable than when they’re full of adrenaline and failure.” —Gwenda Bond, Girl on a Wire.
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James Patterson: Two speeds
“Basically, I have two speeds…. Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.” —James Patterson, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports.
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George R R Martin: History is a wheel
“Archmaester Rigney once wrote that history is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.” —George R R Martin.
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Jonathan Kellerman: Others have it worse
“Just because others have it worse doesn’t mean you have to suffer in silence.” —Jonathan Kellerman, Self-Defense.
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Mary Oliver: Poetry
“Poetry isn’t a profession, it’s a way of life. It’s an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.” —Mary Oliver.
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Marlon James: Did you eat?
“…Love isn’t saying, I love you but calling to say, did you eat?” —Marlon James.
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J D Robb: Love and magic
“Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.” —J D Robb.
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Delia Owens: Time
“Time ensures children never know their parents young.” —Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing.
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Alex Michaelides: Choosing a lover
“Choosing a lover is a lot like choosing a therapist. We need to ask ourselves, is this someone who will be honest with me, listen to criticism, admit making mistakes, and not promise the impossible?” —Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient.
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Rudy Francisco: Scars
“You want to know how I got these scars. I swallowed my pride and then it crawled its way out of my mouth.” —Rudy Francisco.
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Rudy Francisco: Scared but reckless
“I loved you the same way that I learned how to ride a bike: Scared… but reckless.” —Rudy Francisco.
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Paul Flynn: The past keeps changing
“Under New Labour, only the future is certain. The past keeps changing.” —Paul Flynn.
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Holly Willoughby: Simple, wonderful things
“The good things in life are the simple things – and they’re wonderful. I think people are under so much pressure but if you don’t do so much and appreciate what you have, you’ll have a great life.” —Holly Willoughby.
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Molly Ringwald: Promises and lies
“The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.” —Molly Ringwald, When it Happens to You.
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Louis Riel: Believe in yourself
“You got to be brave and have courage, believe in yourself, because that is the first thing to success is believe in yourself.” —Louis Riel.
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Lisa Marie Presley: Monster you have to tame
“Something happens to people around fame and power and money – it can bring out the worst and best in people; it’s a monster you have to tame.” —Lisa Marie Presley.
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Sun Tzu: Strategy and tactics
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy are the noise before defeat.” —Sun Tzu.
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Meek Mill: Open inbox
“I don’t like a girl on social media, when you have an open inbox, answering questions from dudes left and right every day. What’s the point? It’s like having your number all out. Everybody think they’re famous when they get 100,000 followers on Instagram and 5,000 on Twitter.” —Meek Mill.
