Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Gerald Durrell: Habitat
“You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that habitat and you will exterminate the species as surely as if you had shot it. So conservation means that you have to preserve forest and grassland, river and lake, even the sea itself.…
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Claire Foy: Symbol of power
“The coronation is a symbol of power, but it’s not a symbol for us the people. It’s a symbol for that person, who is a human, to become a higher being and become one with God. The church, the scepter, and the crown have been around forever. And the line of kings of England goes…
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Carl Sagan: Understanding is joyous
“The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.” —Carl Sagan.
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G K Chesterton: Special purification and dedication
“The moment sex ceases to be a servant it becomes a tyrant. There is something dangerous and disproportionate in its place in human nature, for whatever reason; and it does really need a special purification and dedication.” —G K Chesterton.
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John Howard: Won’t follow the Americans
“We won’t just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans.” —John Howard.
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Selena Gomez: Therapy
“I wish more people would talk about therapy. We girls, we’re taught to be almost too resilient, to be strong and sexy and cool and laid-back, the girl who’s down. We also need to feel allowed to fall apart.” —Selena Gomez.
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G K Chesterton: No standard
“If we have no standard for judging whether anything is right, how on earth can we decide that the world is wrong?” —G K Chesterton.
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Ivanka Trump: Strong ethical compass
“My father taught my siblings and me the importance of positive values and a strong ethical compass. He showed us how to be resilient, how to deal with challenges, and how to strive for excellence in all that we do. He taught us that there’s nothing that we cannot accomplish if we marry vision and…
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Al Pacino: Easy to fool the eye
“It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.” —Al Pacino.
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Megyn Kelly: Racism
“I – listen, racism – being a racist is the worst thing you can say about somebody. I mean, it is such a charged accusation. And I really think people should be very careful before they level that.” —Megyn Kelly.
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Steve Buscemi: Relationships
“Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women, but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.” —Steve Buscemi.
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Julian Castro: American dream
“In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don’t always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.” —Julian Castro.
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Geoffrey Canada: Convincing people
“Convincing people to give your way a try will work if you neutralize – and sometimes you have to cauterize – the ones who really are against change. Theyre the kind of person who, if you tell them its raining outside, theyll fight you tooth and nail.” —Geoffrey Canada.
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Baltasar Gracian: When you counsel someone
“When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.” —Baltasar Gracian, writer and philosopher (8 Jan 1601-1658).
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Dwayne Johnson: First responders
“I’ve always seen first responders as unsung heroes and very special people because, when everyone else is running away from danger, they run into it.” —Dwayne Johnson.
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Selena Gomez: Seasons, reasons, lessons
“People are put into your life for seasons, for different reasons, and to teach you lessons.” —Selena Gomez.
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Stephan Leschka: Without metrics
“Without Metrics you’re just another guy with an opinion.” — Stephan Leschka, Hewlett Packard.
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Gillian Anderson: Be of service
“Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.” —Gillian Anderson.
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Graham Norton: Really bad interviewer
“Basically, I’m a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you thing, ‘really, what an ordinary person’.” —Graham Norton.
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Selena Gomez: Touched by an angel
“The day I got my first letter from a fan, I felt like I’d been touched by an angel.” —Selena Gomez.
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Sarah Hyland: Character you portray
“You’re in everyone’s homes every week as this character, and they feel like they know you, and then they start to really define you as this character that you portray.” —Sarah Hyland.
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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.
