Author: LINUS FERNANDES
-
Nicolaus Copernicus: True knowledge
“To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.” —Nicolaus Copernicus.
-
Lil Xan: Manifest happiness
“It gets better: there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. It may take one day, it may take ten years. But one day, you will find happiness if you manifest it. Put that energy out, and it’ll come back.” —Lil Xan.
-
Rabbi Moses ben Maimon: Teach thy tongue
“Teach thy tongue to say I do not know, and thou shalt progress.” —Rabbi Moses ben Maimon.
-
Charlie Munger: Other side’s argument
“I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don’t know the other side’s argument better than they do.” — Charlie Munger.
-
Charlie Munger: Rapid destruction of ideas
“We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side.” — Charlie Munger.
-
Charlie Munger: Great mental discipline
“The ability to destroy your ideas rapidly instead of slowly when the occasion is right is one of the most valuable things. You have to work hard on it. Ask yourself what are the arguments on the other side. It’s bad to have an opinion you’re proud of if you can’t state the arguments for…
-
Isaac Asimov: Completely honest
“Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.” – Isaac Asimov.
-
Simon Sinek: Service
“Service is not doing what’s required of us. Service is doing more than what’s required of us.” —Simon Sinek.
-
Ella Baker: Challenged the rules
“I didn’t break the rules, but I challenged the rules.” —Ella Baker, civil rights and human rights activist.
-
Nicole Scherzinger: Endorphins and sweat
“When you break a sweat you just feel great. You’ve got your endorphins going. You feel better. You look better. And if you aren’t able to get a workout in, try to find a steam room somewhere. You just look and feel so much better after a sweat.” —Nicole Scherzinger.
-
Michelle Bridges: Motivation versus consistency
“Motivation is about feeling—determined, enthusiastic, frenzied, even angry—and is therefore fickle and unreliable. You can’t count on it being there. Consistency, however, is about doing. Consistency isn’t something that you need to wind up like a coiled spring every morning. You don’t need to plug it in and recharge it every few hours. It is…
-
Zig Ziglar: Lack of direction
“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four days.” —Zig Ziglar.
-
Dolly Parton: Another turkey
“A peacock who rests on its feathers is just another turkey.” —Dolly Parton.
-
50 Cents: Glass house
“You shouldn’t throw stones if you live in a glass house and if you got a glass jaw, you should watch yo mouth: cause I’ll break yo face.” —50 Cents.
-
Thomas Jefferson: Governments and newspapers
“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” —Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect, and author (1743-1826).
-
Samantha Morton: We are who we are
“Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.” —Samantha Morton.
-
Anne Morrow Lindbergh: No room for fear, doubt or hesitation
“When the heart is flooded with love there is no room in it for fear, for doubt, for hesitation.” —Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea.
-
John Adams: Brains shaken out
“If we take a survey of the greatest actions…in the world…we shall find the authors of them all to have been persons whose brains had been shaken out of their natural position.” —John Adams.
-
Carly Rae Jepsen: Candy apple red
“Candy apple red is my favorite color. It’s a powerful color to wear. It’s always been that way – I’ve always been really attracted to that color.” —Carly Rae Jepsen.
-
Elvis Presley: All leg movements
“My movements, ma’am, are all leg movements. I don’t do nothing with my body.” —Elvis Presley.
-
Anwar Sadat: Change reality
“He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.” —Anwar Sadat.
-
Benjamin Franklin: Wrong thing in the tempting place
“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing in the tempting place.” —Benjamin Franklin.
-
Peace Pilgrim: Power to wound
“Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.” —Peace Pilgrim, Peace Pilgrim.
-
Henry David Thoreau: One striking at the root
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root…” —Henry David Thoreau, Walden.
-
Buddha: Reactions create delusions
“Through our reactions we create delusions. Without reactions the world becomes clear.” —Buddha.
-
Lao-Tzu: Patience
“Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself?” —Lao-Tzu.
-
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Eternal public
‘The effect of any writing on the public mind is mathematically measurable by its depth of thought…If it awaken you to think, if it lift you from your feet with a great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men; if the pages instruct you not,…
-
Gustave Flaubert: Like a pump
“[The artist] is like a pump; he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the deepest layers. He sucks up what was lying there below, dim and unnoticed, and brings it in great jets to the sunlight.” —Gustave Flaubert.
-
Robert Frost: Brave poetry
“Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don’t know why people shouldn’t write poetry. That’s brave.” —Robert Frost.
-
Paul Rogat Loeb: Manageable scale
‘As Joanna Macy reminds us, “Information by itself can increase resistance [to engagement], deepening the sense of apathy and powerlessness.” Stories about particular individuals and specific situations usually have the opposite effect. By giving unwieldy problems a human face, they also bring them down to a human–and thus manageable–scale.’ — Paul Rogat Loeb, Soul of…
-
Paul H Ray & Sherry Ruth Anderson: Tipping point
‘Toward the end of Crow and Weasel, Barry Lopez’s luminous fable of a quest to an unknown land, a wise old female Badger explains that telling true stories of where you’ve been and what you’ve seen is how people care for each other. “Sometimes,” Badger says, “a person needs a story more than food to…
-
Native American proverb: One who tells the stories
“The one who tells the stories rules the world.” —Native American (Hopi) Proverb.
-
John Briggs & F David Peat: Butterfly power
“[Chaos theory] says that complex and chaotic systems — which means most of the systems we encounter in nature and in society — cannot accurately be predicted or exclusively controlled. Neither can rigid systems be easily budged. However, there’s a loophole. What if we acted through the myriad tiny feedback loops that hold a society…
-
Albert Schweitzer: Effects of energy
“None of us knows what he accomplishes and what he gives to humanity. That is hidden from us, and should remain so. Sometimes we are allowed to see just a little of it, so we will not be discouraged. The effects of energy are mysterious in all realms.” —Albert Schweitzer, The Teaching of Reverence for…
-
Chris Maser: Restoring land to health
“The very process of the restoring the land to health is the process through which we become attuned to Nature and, through Nature, with ourselves.” —Chris Maser, Forest Primeval.
-
Ronald Fisher: What the experiment died of
“To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.” —Ronald Fisher.
-
Yoko Ono: Spring, summer, autumn, winter
“Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.” —Yoko Ono.
-
Charles M Schultz: Bumper sticker
“There’s a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.” – Charles M. Schulz.
-
Robert F Kennedy: Numberless diverse acts of courage and belief
“It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope; and crossing each other from a million different centers of…
-
Vaclav Havel: Things that make sense
“I am in favor of [actions] that have authenticity, roots, originality, verve, balance, taste, communicativeness, challenge, relevance to their time–in short, things that make sense.” —Vaclav Havel, Open Letters.
-
Abraham Lincoln: One-third and two-thirds
“When I’m getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say—and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.” —Abraham Lincoln.
-
Arthur Schopenhauer: Vehemence springs from the will
“Whoever wants his judgment to be believed, should express it coolly and dispassionately; for all vehemence springs from the will. And so the judgment might be attributed to the will and not to knowledge, which by its nature is cold.” —Arthur Schopenhauer.
-
Marianne Williamson: Child of God
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of…
-
Hazel Henderson: Don’t wait for anyone
“Don’t wait for anyone to deputize you or authorize you or empower you. You have to just start out with yourself…and put one foot in front of the other.” —Hazel Henderson.
-
Henry David Thoreau: Reality
“Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe…till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality, and say, This is…” —Henry David Thoreau, Walden.
-
Vaclav Havel: Orientation map
“Someone who does not draw strength from himself and who is incapable of finding the meaning of his life within himself will…seek the map to his own orientation somewhere outside himself–in some ideology, organization, or society, and then, however active he may appear to be, he is merely waiting, depending. He waits to see what…
