Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Meera Sanyal: Specific skills
“We need to enter life with specific skills and not an MBA.” —Meera Sanyal.
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Jessica Simpson: Dumb versus ditzy
“I think there’s a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!” —Jessica Simpson.
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Chalene Johnson: What do you teach?
“You are the one who teaches other people how to treat you. What do you teach?” —Chalene Johnson.
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C S Lewis: Going back
“A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.” C S Lewis, The Great Divorce.
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Evil
“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future.” – —Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago.
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Piers Morgan: Snobbish, pompous journalist
“There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don’t come from that school.” —Piers Morgan.
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Eddie Murphy: Making movies
“Making movies is time-consuming and it’s boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It’s like a big machine that moves slowly.” —Eddie Murphy.
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Owen Jones: Demonisation
“Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society.” —Owen Jones.
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Shirley Eaton: Great believer in naps
“I am a great believer in naps, whatever age you are.” —Shirley Eaton.
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Simon Sinek: Always human
“Good leadership is always human. It takes time and energy. It is hard work. Which is the reason good leadership is so special when we find it.” —Simon Sinek.
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Louise Redknapp: Key issue
“I don’t think there’s a specific route to take to make a relationship last a long time. And who knows what the future will bring. Please God we are happy forever, but you just don’t know what’s round the corner. For me the key issue is not to be selfish, on both sides. I think…
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Simon Sinek: Fulfillment
“Most of us live our lives by accident – we live it as it happens. Fulfillment comes when we live our lives on purpose.” —Simon Sinek.
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Gwyneth Paltrow: Really commercial
“Sometimes when things you love get really commercial, you end up feeling betrayed by it.” —Gwyneth Paltrow.
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Hugh Jackman: Meditation
“Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It’s like the ultimate rest. It’s better than the best sleep you’ve ever had. It’s a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.” —Hugh Jackman.
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Boris Johnson: Beauty and riddle
“The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest, and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.” —Boris Johnson.
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Lal Bahadur Shastri: Fight for peace bravely
“We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war.” —Lal Bahadur Shastri.
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Rose McGowan: What you won’t do
“I realized a career is built as much on what you don’t do as what you do do.” —Rose McGowan.
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Nina Dobrev: Sleeping in makeup
“There’s nothing worse than sleeping in makeup. You wake up looking like a painting that’s been left out in a rainstorm.” —Nina Dobrev.
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Anthony J D’Angelo: Stubbornness and ignorance
“Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.” —Anthony J. D’Angelo.
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Susan Orlean: Getting in touch
“I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone, a regular e-mail account, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, and a Web site. Some of them also have a Google Voice number. There are the sentimental few who still have fax machines.”…
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Phil Knight: Immutable conflict
“There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.” —Phil Knight.
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Ogden Nash: Tangled web
“Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.” —Ogden Nash.
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Boris Johnson: Opportunities for fresh disasters
“My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.” —Boris Johnson.
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James Gandolfini: Bonds
“What they say about TV shows is true. You’re really a family. You laugh, you fight, you get close, you know? Movies are shorter. They’re over quicker. You don’t form the same bonds.” —James Gandolfini.
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Jean Chrétien: Proof
“A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It’s a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it’s because it’s proven.” —Jean Chrétien.
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Colin Farrell: Scrutiny
“You’re scrutinized all through your life – you’re scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.” —Colin Farrell.
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C S Lewis: If you want to…
“If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them.” —C S Lewis.
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Jillian Michaels: Entry point
“I’ve always believed fitness is an entry point to help you build that happier, healthier life. When your health is strong, you’re capable of taking risks. You’ll feel more confident to ask for the promotion. You’ll have more energy to be a better mom. You’ll feel more deserving of love.” —Jillian Michaels.
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Albert Einstein: A hundred times every day
“A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.” —Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist.
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Simon Sinek: Lead people
“We cannot lead an organization, we can run an organization. We can only lead people.” —Simon Sinek.
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P G Wodehouse: Mulligatawny soup
“Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.” —P. G. Wodehouse.
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Ashley Judd: Imagination
“Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.” —Ashley Judd.
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Lord Acton: Everything secret degenerates
“Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.” —Lord Acton, historian (10 Jan 1834-1902).
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Brad Stulberg: Heroic at consistency
“Don’t aim for consistently heroic efforts. Aim for being heroic at consistency. Heroic efforts = take a huge toll emotionally, physically, and cognitively. Not a sustainable thing to strive for. Consistency = compounds over time. Good enough over and over again makes you great.” —Brad Stulberg.
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Hrithik Roshan: Romance is blind
“Love is not blind. Romance is. Romance is the most dangerous thing. Romance is like an illusion. It shows you things, and you hear things that don’t exist.” —Hrithik Roshan.
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Demi Lovato: Recovery
“Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it’s something that it doesn’t get a day off.” —Demi Lovato.
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Gwyneth Paltrow: Unacceptable to be fat
“We feel it’s unacceptable to be fat, when it has nothing to do with who the person actually is.” —Gwyneth Paltrow.
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Diana Ross: Icon
“Icon. What is an icon? When someone is iconic it means they have established a certain kind of legacy possibly, and I think it does come with time. It’s something in the arts, I feel. Maybe not, maybe it doesn’t have to be in the arts exactly. I’m not really sure. But I don’t think…
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Tommy Chong: Demons
“You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush – if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn’t need a costume. You’d give them a treat and compliment them on what great-looking demons they were. They are demons. There’s no doubt about it.” —Tommy Chong.
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Warren Buffett: Be lovable
“The only way to be loved is to be lovable…. But the nice thing about it, of course, is that…you always get back more than you give. I don’t know whether it was Oscar Hammerstein or who said,… ‘A bell’s not a bell till you ring it, a song’s not a song till you sing…
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Daisaku Ikeda: Prayer
“Prayer is the courage to persevere. It is the struggle to overcome our own weakness and lack of confidence in ourselves. It is the act of impressing in the very depths of our being the conviction that we can change the situation without fail.” —Daisaku Ikeda.
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Jared Polis: Foolish and impossible
“Trying to enforce our out-of-touch laws is as foolish and impossible as trying to enforce a law requiring that water flow uphill.” —Jared Polis.
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Natasha Friend: Stand up for it
“When you believe in something, stand up for it, even if everyone is sitting.” —Natasha Friend.
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Gretchen Rubin: Happy times from the past
“One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good.” —Gretchen Rubin.
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Fr. Vincent McNabb: Suffering
“The more we shun suffering, the more we come under its thrall, we become its slave. To seek it, or at least to endure it, and to love it not for its own sake but for the sake of all the good things that may be wrought through it, that is to become its master.”…
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Alex Salmond: Barriers to national progress
“We see barriers to business as barriers to national progress.” —Alex Salmond.
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Kate Bush: Moving away from boundaries
“That’s what all art’s about – a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can’t in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really – to do something that’s just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.” —Kate Bush.
