Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Nicole Hollander: World without men
“Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women.” —Nicole Hollander.
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Pearl S Buck: Halfway moment
“Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.” —Pearl S. Buck.
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Albert Einstein: Mysterious tune
“Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.” —Albert Einstein.
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Derek Walcott: Nobody’s special property
“The English language is nobody’s special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.” —Derek Walcott.
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Pearl S Buck: Moods
“Don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.” —Pearl S. Buck.
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Conan O’Brien: Grim
“This is going to sound grim, but eventually, all our graves go unattended.” —Conan O’Brien, talk show host.
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Anushka Sharma: Different amounts of money
“A female newcomer and a male newcomer will get paid different amounts of money. You’re a newcomer, nobody knows who you are, man or woman doesn’t matter. But you’re going to get paid different money.” —Anushka Sharma.
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Lev Landau: Fear and laziness
“Everybody has a capacity for a happy life. All these talks about how difficult times we live in, that’s just a clever way to justify fear and laziness.” —Lev Landau.
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Martin Luther King Jr: Health care
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
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Haemin Sunim: Gratitude
“The more grateful we feel, the happier we become. This is because gratitude helps us realize we are all connected.” —Haemin Sunim.
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Will Durrant: Instincts and feelings
“Reason is a tool, but character is based upon instincts and feelings into which reason seldom enters. Consequently, reason can not really be the dominant aspect of any age or any man. It’s an instinct.” —Will Durant.
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G K Chesterton: More and more revolutionary
“It is always said that a man grows more conservative as he grows older; but for my part, I feel myself in many ways growing more and more revolutionary. Perhaps, by the time I am ninety-seven or so, I shall be going about with a blood-red flag and a bomb, a sanguine and sanguinary anarchist,…
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Brad Pitt: Loves and regrets
“I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don’t discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that’s very telling.” —Brad Pitt.
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Samuel Johnson: Knowledge
“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated of it. This leads us to look at catalogues, and at the backs of books…
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Gilles Duceppe: History
“Look at what has occurred in history. When the Berlin Wall fell, it was not surprising, but it was unexpected. Who predicted the Arab Spring? Nobody expected it, but all the ingredients were there. I think all the ingredients are also there for Quebec to become a country. But when? That’s another question.” —Gilles Duceppe.
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James Cook: Turn his back on the crowd
“The man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” —James Cook.
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Scott Morrison: Separation of church and state
“Separation of church and state was set up to protect the church from the state, not the other way around. To protect religious freedoms.” —Scott Morrison.
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Warren Mundine: Confront each other
“People – whether you like to hear what people have got to say, not you have got to listen to them, and turning your back on people I found very insulting. If you’re going to really make peace, you have got to confront each other and look each other in the eye, and that’s what’s…
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Wendy Piersall: When everyone else loves you first
“Google only loves you when everyone else loves you first.” –Wendy Piersall.
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Brian Clark: Headline copy
“On average, 8 out of 10 people will read your headline copy, but only 2 out of 10 will read the rest.”—Brian Clark.
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Steuart Henderson Britt: Winking in the dark
“Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.” —Steuart Henderson Britt.
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Howard Gossage: Sometimes, it’s an ad
“Nobody reads ads. People read what interests them. Sometimes, it’s an ad.” – Howard Gossage.
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David Beebe: First date
“Content marketing is like a first date. If you only talk about yourself, there won’t be a second one.” – David Beebe.
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Francisco Rosales: Validation
“When people feel insecure about something, they look around for validation. Show them that other people trust you.” —Francisco Rosales.
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Michael Hyatt: Sharing your passion
“Marketing is really just about sharing your passion.” –Michael Hyatt.
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Brian Chesky: Something 100 people love
“Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.” – Brian Chesky.
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Gary Vaynerchuk: CARE
“The best marketing strategy ever: CARE.” –Gary Vaynerchuk, entrepreneur, speaker and marketing expert.
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Conor Ryan: Transcend the big screen
“Advertisers are missing opportunities to transcend the big screen by encouraging interaction with branded content on their smartphones.” —Conor Ryan.
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G K Chesterton: Government is force
“Government does not rest on force. Government is force; it rests on consent or a conception of justice.” —G K Chesterton.
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Elizabeth Gardner: Generic
“It’s hard to target a message to a generic 35-year-old middle-class working mother of two. It’s much easier to target a message to Jennifer, who has two children under four, works as a paralegal, and is always looking for quick but healthy dinners and ways to spend more time with her kids and less time…
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Avinash Kaushik: Ads write checks
“Never let ads write checks your website can’t cash.” – Avinash Kaushik.
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Bryan Eisenberg: Conversion rate
“It’s much easier to double your business by doubling your conversion rate than doubling your traffic.”– Bryan Eisenberg.
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Mike Moran: Search marketing
“Search marketing, and most Internet marketing in fact, can be very threatening because there are no rules. There’s no safe haven. To do it right, you need to be willing to be wrong. But search marketing done right is all about being wrong. Experimentation is the only way.” – Mike Moran.
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Laura Fitton: Core problem
“Focus on the core problem your business solves and put out lots of content and enthusiasm and ideas about how to solve that problem.” —Laura Fitton.
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Anita Campbell: Too passive
“You can’t expect to just write and have visitors come to you – that’s too passive.” – Anita Campbell.
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Don Tapscott & Anthony D Williams: Holding back technology
“Holding back technology to preserve broken business models is like allowing blacksmiths to veto the internal combustion engine in order to protect their horseshoes.” – Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams.
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Tim Williams: Labor pains
“Clients don’t care about the labor pains; they want to see the baby.” —Tim Williams.
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Matthew Inman: Douchey social media strategy
“Put your energy into making things that are likeable, not some douchey social media strategy.” – Matthew Inman.
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Jeffrey Zeldman: Engage honestly
“The best way to engage honestly with the marketplace via Twitter is to never use the words ‘engage,’ ‘honestly’ or ‘marketplace.’” —Jeffrey Zeldman.
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Renee Blodgett: Conversations
“I am all for conversations, but you need to have a message.” —Renee Blodgett.
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Jonathan Lister: Always be helping
“As marketers, we should be changing the mantra from always be closing to always be helping.” —Jonathan Lister.
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Ann Handley: Speaking to a single human
“Even when you are marketing to your entire audience or customer base, you are still simply speaking to a single human at any given time.” —Ann Handley.
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Lord Byron: Pleasure in pathless woods
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more.” —Lord Byron.
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Brad Pitt: Deregulation
“Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it’s hard to make your peace with.” —Brad Pitt.
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T S Eliot: Poets
“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.” —T. S. Eliot.
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Clint Eastwood: Extreme prejudice
“I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.” —Clint Eastwood.
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Tony Robbins: Purpose of a goal
“The purpose of a goal is not to get it. The purpose of a goal is who you become in pursuit of it.” —Tony Robbins.
