Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Fred Rogers: Share responsibility
“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say “It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.” Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.” —Fred Rogers.
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Kobe Bryant: Long game
“If I wanted to implement something new into my game, I’d see it and try incorporating it immediately. I wasn’t scared of missing, looking bad, or being embarrassed. That’s because I always kept the end result, the long game, in my mind.” —Kobe Bryant.
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Henry Singleton: Stay flexible
“I know a lot of people have very strong and definite plans that they’ve worked out on all kinds of things, but we’re subject to a tremendous number of outside influences and the vast majority of them cannot be predicted. So my idea is to stay flexible.” —Henry Singleton.
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Alan Kay: Communications junkies
“Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.” —Alan Kay.
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Penelope Lively: Walking lexicons
“We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard.” —Penelope Lively.
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Christopher Fry: Halo
“What, after all, is a halo? It’s only one more thing to keep clean.” —Christopher Fry.
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Alan Cooper: Value of a prototype
“The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself.” —Alan Cooper.
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John Leonard: Memory of a small boldness
“In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.” —John Leonard.
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Tom Brady: Double the pleasure and divide the pain
“Things happen in life that you don’t want to happen—whether you lose a game, things don’t go well at work, or something happens with your child. There are many moments in our personal and professional lives that don’t go the way we want. How do you deal with them? Do you handle them with class…
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Steve Jobs: Don’t settle
“You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to…
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Paul Graham: Two theories
“If you’re trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right.” —Paul Graham.
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Kate Sheppard: All that separates
“All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome.” —Kate Sheppard.
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Amrish Puri: Destination
“Son, you are an actor of theater, you are an actor of stage. You will go to the world of film. And if you become a film actor, then don’t become a film. Don’t go to late-night parties. Don’t drink alcohol. Don’t smoke cigarettes. Cigarettes and all these things destroy an actor a lot. Be…
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Franklin Adams: Conviction based on experience
“The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.” —Franklin Adams.
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Luther Burbank: Jungle of weeds
“If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weeds.” —Luther Burbank.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Inordinate courage
“It takes inordinate courage to introspect, to confront oneself, to accept one’s limitations—scientists are seeing more and more evidence that we are specifically designed by mother nature to fool ourselves.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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William Beveridge: Happiness of the common bank
“The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.” —William Beveridge.
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Napoleon: Ten people
“Ten people who yell make more noise than ten thousand who keep silent.” —Napoleon.
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Julia Cameron: Seeds of love
“When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature. All of us love. All of us do it more and more perfectly. The past has brought us both ashes and diamonds. In the present we find the flowers of what we’ve planted…
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Nietzsche: Happiness
“The only happiness lies in reason; all the rest of the world is dismal. The highest reason, however, I see in the work of the artist, and he may experience it as such. Happiness lies in the swiftness of feeling and thinking: all the rest of the world is slow, gradual and stupid. Whoever could feel the course of a light ray…
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William Goldwin: Mind with mind
“If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.” —William Godwin.
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James Dyson: Misfit
“I have been a misfit throughout my professional life, and that seems to have worked to my advantage. Misfits are not born or made; they make themselves. And a stubborn opinionated child, desperate to be different and to be right, encounters only smaller refractions of the problems he will always experience. And he carries the…
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Leonardo da Vinci: Mastery of oneself
“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself; you will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself; the height of your success is gauged by your self-mastery, the depth of your failure by your self-abandonment. Those who cannot establish dominion over themselves will have no dominion over…
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Toni Morrison: Beauty
“I think of beauty as an absolute necessity. I don’t think it’s a privilege or an indulgence, it’s not even a quest. I think it’s almost like knowledge, which is to say, it’s what we were born for. I think finding, incorporating and then representing beauty is what humans do. With or without authorities telling…
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Michel de Montaigne: Rub and polish
“It is good to rub and polish your mind against that of others.” —Michel de Montaigne.
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Will Rogers: Things will get better
“Things will get better despite our efforts to improve them.” —Will Rogers.
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Victor Hugo: Men hate those to whom they have to lie
“Men hate those to whom they have to lie.” —Victor Hugo.
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Patrick Volkerding: Slackware
“Besides, I think Slackware sounds better than ‘Microsoft,’ don’t you?” —Patrick Volkerding.
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Frederick P Brooks: Intramodular structure
“The programmer’s primary weapon in the never-ending battle against slow system is to change the intramodular structure. Our first response should be to reorganize the modules’ data structures.” —Frederick P. Brooks.
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Leo Durocher: Show me
“Show me a good loser in professional sports and I’ll show you an idiot. Show me a good sportsman and I’ll show you a player I’m looking to trade.” —Leo Durocher.
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David Foster Wallace: Voting
“There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some diehard’s vote.” —David Foster Wallace.
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Margaret Halsey: Crucial disadvantage
“The crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness, and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o’clock.” —Margaret Halsey.
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Ansel Adams: Horrifying
“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.” —Ansel Adams.
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Constantin Brancusi: Inhabited sculpture
“Architecture is inhabited sculpture.” —Constantin Brancusi.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr: Two hours
“Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Nikos Kazantzakis: True teachers
“True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.” —Nikos Kazantzakis.
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher: Reflection
“If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks’ vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.” —Dorothy Canfield Fisher.
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Joan Didion: Self-respect
“To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves—there lies the great, the singular power of self-respect.” —Joan Didion.
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Sylvester McNutt III: Overthinking
“Overthinking is the biggest waste of human energy. Trust yourself, make a decision, and gain more experience. There is no such thing as perfect. You cannot think your way into perfection, just take action.” —Sylvester McNutt III.
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Schopenhauer: Art of not reading
“The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for…
