Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Muhammad Ali: Staying down that’s wrong
“Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.” —Muhammad Ali.
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Gerald Durrell: Half-educated
“I liked being half-educated; you were so much more surprised at everything when you were ignorant.” —Gerald Durrell, naturalist and television presenter.
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Howard Baker: Cover-up
“It is almost always the cover-up than the event that causes trouble.” – Howard Baker.
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Mark Twain: Lonesome
“Be good and you will be lonesome.” –Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910).
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Benjamin Franklin: Minding what others say
“Such is the vanity of mankind that minding what others say is a much surer way of pleasing them than talking well ourselves.” ~ Benjamin Franklin.
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Oscar Wilde: How you place the blame
“It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you place the blame.” ~ Oscar Wilde.
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Harvey Ruben: Child who wants to play
“In every person is hidden a child who wants to play.” ~ Harvey Ruben.
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Benjamin Franklin: Praise her to her girl friends
“To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girl friends.” —Benjamin Franklin.
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Sister Miriam Joseph: Logic, grammar and rhetoric
“Because communication involves the simultaneous exercise of logic, grammar, and rhetoric, these three arts are the fundamental arts of education, of teaching, and of being taught. Accordingly, they must be practiced simultaneously by both teacher and pupil. The pupil must cooperate with the teacher; he must be active, not passive. The teacher may be present…
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Mark Nepo: Hardest thing I’ve learned
“The hardest thing I’ve learned, and still struggle with, is that I don’t have to be finished in order to be whole.” —Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening.
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Pope Pius XI: Not to absorb the family or individual
“Now this end and object, the common welfare in the temporal order, consists in that peace and security in which families and individual citizens have the free exercise of their rights, and at the same time enjoy the greatest spiritual and temporal prosperity possible in this life, by the mutual union and co-ordination of the…
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Will Rogers: Being a hero
“Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.” —Will Rogers.
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Winston Churchill: Never give in
“Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.” —Winston Churchill.
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James Gordon: Ready to change or not
“It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.” —James Gordon.
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King Whitney Jr: Considerable psychological impact
“Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.” —King Whitney Jr.
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Lynn Hall: More clearly ourselves
“We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.” —Lynn Hall.
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: Universe is change
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.” —Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.
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Martha Beck: Full-on metamorphosis
“Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.” —Martha Beck.
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Norman Vincent Peale: Change your world
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” —Norman Vincent Peale.
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Tallulah Bankhead: Night watchman
“It’s one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work-the night watchman.” —Tallulah Bankhead.
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Thomas Henry Huxley: Absolute rejection of authority
“Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.” –Thomas Henry Huxley, biologist (1825-1895).
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Perfection
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
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Curtis Jackson: You can’t buy respect in the ‘hood
“You can buy cars but you can’t buy respect in the ‘hood.” – Curtis Jackson.
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Nnamdi G Osuagwu: Treat people like mirrors
“Treat people like mirrors and watch how you reflect in their eyes.” —Nnamdi G. Osuagwu.
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C S Lewis: Worse than fiends
“Some of us who seem quite nice people may, in fact, have made so little use of a good upbringing that we are really worse than those whom we regard as fiends.” —C S Lewis.
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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.
