Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Shirish Kunder: Energy vampires
“Avoid people to whom you’ve to constantly justify yourself. They are energy vampires.” —Shirish Kunder.
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Charlie Munger: Intelligent gamble
“Mostly, Berkshire, in its history, has bought common stocks that practically couldn’t fail. But occasionally, Berkshire just makes an intelligent gamble where there’s plenty of chance of failure, but there’s enough chance of success so the gamble is worth taking.” —Charlie Munger.
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Warren Buffett: Worry about being sure
“I don’t worry about what I don’t know. I worry about being sure about what I do know.” —Warren Buffett.
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Hilaria Baldwin: Attention, intention and conscious action
“Each principle starts and ends with attention, intention, and conscious action. You must first see what is holding you back (attention), acknowledge that you want to change it (intention), and then take a teeny tiny step toward that change (action).” —Hilaria Baldwin, The Living Clearly Method: 5 Principles for a Fit Body, Healthy Mind &…
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Rosa Parks: Pull the scar
“Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again?” —Rosa Parks.
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Brooklyn Decker: Keeping up with your kid
“The good thing about kids is they want to be mobile; they want to be running around nonstop. They want to play. They want to be outside. So they’re inherently more active than we are, because we get much lazier as we get older. Part of being a parent is keeping up with your kid.”…
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Tomi Lahren: Come with a price
“Ruining someone else’s life for attention or revenge should also come with a price.” —-Tomi Lahren.
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G K Chesterton: Wit
“Wit is a fighting thing and a working thing. A man may enjoy humor all by himself; he may see a joke when no one else sees it; he may see the point and avoid it. But wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.”…
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Charlotte Rampling: Just words
“If words don’t have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they’re just words.” —Charlotte Rampling.
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Thích Nhat Hanh: Suffering
“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. They prefer suffering that is familiar to the unknown.” — Thích Nhat Hanh.
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Liam Neeson: Wonderful ritual
“The putting on of vestments and lighting candles, it’s a wonderful ritual that never changes from one Mass to another.” —Liam Neeson.
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Julia Michaels: Really big relationship
“An artist could have a really big relationship, and then they break up, and any song after that, people are automatically going to assume that that song is about that person.” —Julia Michaels.
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Daisaku Ikeda: Eternal victory
“Leading an undefeated life is eternal victory. Not being defeated, never giving up, is actually a greater victory than winning, not being defeated means having the courage to rise to the challenge. However many times we’re knocked down, the important thing is we keep getting up and taking one step – even a half step…
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G K Chesterton: Real democracy
“Real democracy does not mean the democratic part of the people. It means all the people; even that disgusting part with which we do not agree.” —G K Chesterton.
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Michael Feathers: Programming
“Programming is the art of doing one thing at a time” – Michael Feathers.
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Harrison Ford: More or less a second chance
“We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.” —Harrison Ford.
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Henry David Thoreau: We change
“Things do not change; we change.” Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862).
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Carol Burnett: No one can do it for me
“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” —Carol Burnett.
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Andy Warhol: Change them yourself
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” —Andy Warhol.
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H Jackson Brown Jr: Kind of care they get
“Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.” —H Jackson Brown Jr.
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Michael Fry & T Lewis: Insane
“The more things change, the more they remain… insane.” —Michael Fry and T. Lewis, Over the Hedge, 05-09-04.
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Nelson Mandela: You yourself have altered
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.” —Nelson Mandela (1918 – ), ‘A Long Walk to Freedom‘.
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Norman Vincent Peale: Change your thoughts
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” —Norman Vincent Peale.
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Paul Hawken: Good management
“Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.” —Paul Hawken.
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Rabindranath Tagore: Let my country awake
“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection; Where the clear stream of reason has not lost…
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Albert Einstein: We owe a lot to the Indians
“We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made!” –– Albert Einstein.
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Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose: Freedom is taken
“Freedom is not given, it is taken. ” —Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
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Dr. Rajendra Prasad: Free, happy and cultured
“We must re-dedicate ourselves on this day to the peaceful but sure realization of the dream that had inspired the Father of our Nation and the other captains and soldiers of our freedom struggle, the dream of establishing a classless, co-operative, free and happy society in his country. We must remember that this is more…
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Aristotle: Badness of spirit
“Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.” — Aristotle.
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George Halas: Nothing is work
“Nothing is work unless you’d rather be doing something else.” —George Halas.
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William Faulkner: Eight hours a day
“It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.” —William Faulkner.
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Anne Frank: Work gives satisfaction
“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” —Anne Frank.
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Pablo Picasso: Ultimate seduction
“It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.” —Pablo Picasso.
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Richard Nelson Bolles: Firm ground to stand on
“I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you’ve lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.” —Richard Nelson Bolles.
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H Jackson Brown Jr: Find a job you like
“Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.” —H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Thomas A Edison: Hustle while you wait
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” —Thomas A. Edison.
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Gustave Flaubert: Violent and original in work
“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” —Gustave Flaubert.
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Thomas A Edison: Seeming to do
“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.” —Thomas A. Edison.
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Irvin S Cobb: Sport is hard work
“As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.” —Irvin S. Cobb.
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Thomas Fuller: Difficult before they’re easy
“All things are difficult before they are easy.” —Thomas Fuller.
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Carla Bruni: Opinions
“But I’m very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don’t really believe what it says about other people.” —Carla Bruni.
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Daisaku Ikeda: Trust
“Trust is difficult to earn and it is easily lost—the trust built over a decade can be shattered in an instant by one offhanded remark or deed. A person who is not swayed from their chosen path, even during the most trying times, will ultimately find that he or she is trusted by all.” —Daisaku…
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Isla Fisher: False idea of beauty
“Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty.” —Isla Fisher.
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Shirish Kunder: Fear
“Fear is a weapon used by bullies who fail to command your respect.” —Shirish Kunder.
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Laurence J Peter: Level of incompetence
“Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.” —Laurence J. Peter.
