Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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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.
