Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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John Bercow: Cowardly form of politics
“It’s a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me.” —John Bercow.
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Jeff Bezos: Two ways to extend a business
“There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you’re good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.” —Jeff Bezos.
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Rod Stewart: Going through so much pain
“Listening to me has ruined a lot of other singers. A lot of singers who have tried to sound like me, they sound like they’re going through so much pain.” —Rod Stewart.
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Craig Stadler: Confidence
“Confidence is everything. From there, it’s a small step to winning.” —Craig Stadler.
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Ogden Nash: Middle age
“Middle age is when you’ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.” —Ogden Nash.
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Simon Sinek: Just start
“There’s no right or wrong time. Just start. Better now than later and better late than never.” —Simon Sinek.
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G K Chesterton: Impartiality
“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.” —G.K. Chesterton, writer.
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G K Chesterton: Daybreak
“Daybreak is a never-ending glory, getting out of bed is a never-ending nuisance.” —G K Chesterton.
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Simone de Beauvoir: Value others’ lives
“One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.” —Simone de Beauvoir, author and philosopher (9 Jan 1908-1986).
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Alex Salmond: Understand the odd blemish
“It’s not to pretend you can do everything, but if people like you – in the sense of admiring or having respect for what you are trying to do – then they will understand the odd blemish. If people don’t like you, and lack confidence in what you are trying to do, they won’t forgive…
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Lil Wayne: Lose valuable time
“The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done… you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.” —Lil Wayne.
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Donald Trump: Coke or Pepsi boosts you up
“I’ll drink water. Sometimes tomato juice, which I like. Sometimes orange juice, which I like. I’ll drink different things. But the Coke or Pepsi boosts you up a little.” —Donald Trump.
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Carl Sagan: Profound source of spirituality
“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.” —Carl Sagan.
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Bennett Cerf: Blessed
“The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.” —Bennett Cerf.
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Warren Buffett: Looking a long way into the future
“We don’t buy hula-hoop companies or pet rock companies, and we don’t buy companies in industries that we think will have great explosions in demand, but where we don’t know who the winners will be. So we…like to think we’re looking a long way into the future.” —Warren Buffett.
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Eckhart Tolle: Limiting themselves
“Give up defining yourself – to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life. And don’t be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s their problem.” —Eckhart Tolle.
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William Shakespeare: When we mean to build
“When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; and when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection which if we find outweighs ability, What do we then but draw anew the model In fewer offices, or at least desist To…
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Sheridan Smith: Kind of escapism
“You’re used to having a camera in your face when you’re playing a character – it’s like having a mask on. But when you have to be you, you’re so worried you’ll make an idiot of yourself. Acting is a kind of escapism.” —Sheridan Smith.
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Marie-Chantal Claire: Dress children well
“It‘s important to dress our children well. I have some wonderful memories from my childhood, and so much is associated with what I was wearing. If you look good, you feel good – simple.” —Marie-Chantal Claire.
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Scott Morrison: Free country
“Australia is not a secular country — it is a free country. This is a nation where you have the freedom to follow any belief system you choose. Secularism is just one. It has no greater claim than any other on our society. As US Senator Joe Lieberman said, the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion,…
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Dawn Steele: Control how you feel
“You can’t control how people will perceive you or how they think about you . . . but you can certainly control how you feel about it.” —Dawn Steele, Mail Order Tiger Bride Wars.
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John Travolta: Most exciting professions in the world
“Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.” —John Travolta.
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Kamala Harris: Circumstances of people
“You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.” —Kamala Harris.
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Arthur Baer: Good neighbour
“A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesnt climb over it.” —Arthur Baer.
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Andy Samberg: Fart jokes
“If you let go of fart jokes, you’ve let go of a piece of humanity.” —Andy Samberg.
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Woodrow Wilson: Great army
“I am not one of those who believe that a great army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.” —Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, Nobel laureate (28 Nov 1856-1924).
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John Henry Newman: Nothing would be done
“Nothing would be done at all, if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.” —John Henry Newman, theologian.
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Dick Van Dyke: No wives to advise them
“Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.” —Dick Van Dyke.
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Stephen Hawking: Science
“Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.” —Stephen Hawking.
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C J Samsom: No healthy thing
“In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.” —C.J. Sansom.
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Stephen Fry: Temperance is wickedness
“Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.” —Stephen Fry.
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Anna Burns: Rogue community
“According to the police, of course, our community was a rogue community. It was we who were the enemy, we who were the terrorists, the civilian terrorists, the associates of terrorists or simply individuals suspected of being but not yet discovered to be terrorists. That being the case, and understood by both parties to be…
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Sally Rooney: Political adjudication
“You cannot write about what people are really like without making a political adjudication. All our ideas of what human nature consists of or how people really feel and experience life are, at their base, political ideas.” —Sally Rooney.
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Gail Honeyman: Random acts of kindness
“We can all fight against loneliness by engaging in random acts of kindness.” —Gail Honeyman.
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Lee Child: Plain common sense
“I’m opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it’s plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.” —Lee Child.
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Taylor Swift: Common-sense thing
“I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It’s a conscious thing; it’s a common-sense thing.” —Taylor Swift.
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Julia Roberts: Out loud
“If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.” —Julia Roberts.
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Elvis Presley: Adversity versus prosperity
“Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.” —Elvis Presley.
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Susan Boyle: Enough people
“There are enough people in the world who are going to write you off. You don’t need to do that to yourself.” —Susan Boyle, The Woman I Was Born to Be: My Story.
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Howard Marks: Patterns
“This effort to explain life through the recognition of patterns—and thus to come up with winning formulas—is complicated, in large part, because we live in a world that is beset by randomness and in which people don’t behave the same from one instance to the next, even when they intend to. The realization that past…
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Glenn Close: Don’t mess with me
“The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It’s my way of saying, Don’t mess with me.” —Glenn Close.
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Robert De Niro: Real situation, real human behavior
“In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.” —Robert De Niro.
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Jim Carrey: Desperation
“I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.” —Jim Carrey.
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Emma Stone: Improv
“You know how sports teach kids teamwork and how to be strong and brave and confident? Improv was my sport. I learned how to not waffle and how to hold a conversation, how to take risks and actually be excited to fail.” —Emma Stone.
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Angelina Jolie: Interviewing
“I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing…
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Kevin Spacey: Risk takers
“I have always believed that the risk takers are eventually rewarded.” —Kevin Spacey.
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Baltasar Gracian: Always leave something to wish for
“Always leave something to wish for, otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.” —Baltasar Gracian.
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Simon Sinek: Remarkable
“When we give expecting nothing in return, it is remarkable how much more others will give back to us.” —Simon Sinek.
