Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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Kahlil Gibran: Love made visible
“Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.” —Kahlil Gibran.
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Howard Newton: How well you did it
“People forget how fast you did a job – but they remember how well you did it.” —Howard Newton.
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: One undivided and indivisible family
All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul. –Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948).
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Shane Parrish: Efficiency and environments
“Efficiency is great in an unchanging environment, but to expect an environment to remain static is unrealistic. Environments change all the time. When workplaces value efficiency in a changing environment, they become fragile.” —Shane Parrish.
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Martin Fowler: In such a way
“If you can get today’s work done today, but you do it in such a way that you can’t possibly get tomorrow’s work done tomorrow, then you lose.” —Martin Fowler.
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Buddy Holly: Kind of music
“If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him ‘pop.’ Don’t tell him ‘rock ‘n’ roll’ or they won’t even let you in the hotel.” —Buddy Holly.
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James B Jordan: Understanding the times
“Understanding the times means understanding the course of history and civilization, as well as understanding the present situation. If we understand how God guides the development of human history, we can begin to understand the therapies needed to correct the problems of our times.” —James B. Jordan.
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Nicole Wallace: Life in politics
“A life in politics is for people who know themselves and know where their own line is between loyalty and honesty.” —Nicole Wallace.
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Sidney Greenberg: Firm foundation
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.” —Sidney Greenberg.
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Oscar Wilde: Immoral books
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. – Oscar Wilde.
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Pablo Casals: Love of man
“The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all men. This must be recognized if life is to remain. We must learn the love of man.” —Pablo Casals, cellist and composer.
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Eckhart Tolle: Enlightened teacher
“If you are drawn to an enlightened teacher, it is because there is already enough presence in you to recognize presence in another.” —Eckhart Tolle.
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Naomi Campbell: Feeling passionate
“Feeling passionate about something doesn’t mean you have to be angry.” —Naomi Campbell.
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Dalai Lama XIV: Three factors
“The three factors that seem to have the greatest influence on increasing our happiness are our ability to reframe our situation more positively, our ability to experience gratitude, and our choice to be kind and generous.” ― Dalai Lama XIV.
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: One indivisible whole
“One cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.” –Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948).
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Evelyn Waugh: Inspired when inventing horrors
“The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a heaven that it shows itself cloddish.” –-Evelyn Waugh, novelist (1903-1966).
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James Albert Michener: Not because the light fails to shine
“An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.” —James Albert Michener, novelist (1907-1997).
