Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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D L Moody: Have time to pray
“Now, some men tell us they don’t have time to pray, but I tell you if any man has God’s work lying deep in His heart, he WILL have time to pray.” —D L Moody.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: They won’t tell you
“Those who aren’t in it for the money won’t tell you that they aren’t in it for the money.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Simon Sinek: Impact comes from action
“Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action.” —Simon Sinek.
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Ashton Kutcher: They can’t sit still
“I don’t believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can’t sit still.” —Ashton Kutcher.
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Napolean Hill: Best job
“The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.” —Napolean Hill.
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Tallulah Bankhead: Exactly like me
“Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.” – Tallulah Bankhead.
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Robert Graves: Shakespeare
“The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.” – Robert Graves.
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Voltaire: Doubt versus certainty
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.” – Voltaire.
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William G McAdoo: Ignorant man in argument
“It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.” – William G. McAdoo.
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Albert Camus: Merely to be normal
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.” – Albert Camus.
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Noel Coward: Long walks
“I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.” – Noel Coward.
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Frank Zappa: Books make me sleepy
“I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.” —Frank Zappa.
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G K Chesterton: Only place of liberty
“The truth is that to the moderately poor the home is the only place of liberty. Nay it is the only place of anarchy. It is the only spot on the earth where a man can alter arrangements suddenly, make an experiment, or indulge in a whim.” —G K Chesterton.
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Bob Marley: Worst enemy, best friend
“Your Worst Enemy Could Be Your Best Friend And Your Best Friend Your Worst Enemy.” —Bob Marley.
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Vic Mignogna: Skill will keep you in the room
“There is no question that knowing someone in the business will get you in the door. But it is your skill that will keep you in the room.” —Vic Mignogna.
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Jennifer Lawrence: How can I rank my friends?
“Weddings rock, but I will never be a bridesmaid again. There needs to be a bridesmaids’ union. It’s horrendous. If anyone asks me again, I’m going to say, ‘No. That part of my life is over. I appreciate the ask.’ If I do ever get married, I don’t think I will have bridesmaids. How can…
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Queen Juliana: Lack understanding
“I can’t understand it. I can’t even understand the people who can understand it.” – Queen Juliana.
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Ferdinand Foch: Fear
“None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.” – Ferdinand Foch.
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Sir Winston Churchill: Animosities
“I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.” – Sir Winston Churchill.
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George Bernard Shaw: Perpetual holiday
“A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.” – George Bernard Shaw.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: What a blessing
“What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!” —Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.
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Franklin P Jones: Honest criticism
“Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.” – Franklin P. Jones.
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John B Gough: Make your own opportunities as you go
“If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go.” —John B. Gough.
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John Kenneth Galbraith: Spectacular error
“If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.” – John Kenneth Galbraith.
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Larry Hardiman: Blood sucking parasites
“The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘ticks’, meaning ‘blood sucking parasites’.” —Larry Hardiman.
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Ellen DeGeneres: Procrastination
“Procrastination isn’t the problem, it’s the solution. So procrastinate now, don’t put it off.” – Ellen DeGeneres.
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Will Rogers: Best doctor in the world
“The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can’t ask his patients what is the matter-he’s got to just know.” –– Will Rogers.
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Dame Rose Macaulay: Common delusion
“It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.” –– Dame Rose Macaulay.
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Woody Allen: Belief in God
“How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?” – Woody Allen.
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Bill Vaughan: Prevailing standard of nonconformity
“If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it’s another nonconformist who doesn’t conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.” – Bill Vaughan.
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Bertrand Russell: Credulous animal
“Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.” – Bertrand Russell.
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Madeline L’Engle: Takes too much energy
“It takes too much energy to be against something unless it’s really important.” –– Madeleine L’Engle.
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Madame Cornuel: No hero to his valet
“No man is a hero to his valet.” —Madame Cornuel, wit, society hostess (1605-1694).
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Charlie Munger: Prepare for fast spurts
“Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. But you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts… Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day, at…
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Katharine Hepburn: In the final analysis
“Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I’ve had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.” —Katharine Hepburn.
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G K Chesterton: Justice
“Justice is not a cold thing; it is one of the hottest, fiercest, and most fundamental of the buried fires of our being.” —G K Chesterton.
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Warren Buffett: EBITDA, a cash expense
“I get these people that…want to send me books with EBITDA in it, and I just tell them, you know, ‘I’ll look at that figure when you tell me you’ll make all the capital expenditures.’ If I’m going to make the capital expenditures, there’s very few businesses where I think I can spend a whole…
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Charlie Munger: Bullshit earnings
“I think you would understand any presentation using the word EBITDA, if every time you saw that word you just substituted the phrase, ‘bullshit earnings.’” —Charlie Munger.
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Robert Copeland: Committee
“To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.” – Robert Copeland.
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Sir Arthur Eddington: Boys of a star gone wrong
“We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.” —Sir Arthur Eddington.
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Mogens Jallberg: Counts and votes
“In democracy it’s your vote that counts; In feudalism it’s your count that votes.” – Mogens Jallberg.
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Groucho Marx: Too dark to read
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” – Groucho Marx.
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George Bernard Shaw: Hegel’s history lesson
“Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.” – George Bernard Shaw.
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Ronald Reagan: Eating jellybeans
“You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.” – Ronald Reagan
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Aldous Huxley: Two-thirds of miseries
“At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.” —Aldous Huxley.
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Quentin Crisp: Despise everybody
“To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.” – Quentin Crisp.
