Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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G K Chesterton: Always sane
“Christianity is always out of fashion because it is always sane; and all fashions are mild insanities.” —G K Chesterton.
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Paulo Coelho: Leading lives
“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.” — Paulo Coelho.
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Simon Sinek: Loyalty
“Loyalty is the desire to defend someone when they are not there to defend themselves.” —Simon Sinek.
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Paul Klee: Art
“Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.” – – -Paul Klee, painter (18 Dec 1879-1940).
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Steven Spielberg: Mentoring
“The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.” —Steven Spielberg.
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Simon Sinek: Ideas
“Ideas alone are not scalable. Only when an idea is put into words that people can clearly understand can an idea inspire action.” —Simon Sinek.
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G K Chesterton: Science and philosophy
“Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.” —G K Chesterton.
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Chelsea Manning: Patriotism
“Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power.” —Chelsea Manning, activist and whistleblower (b. 17 Dec 1987).
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Ludwig van Beethoven: Higher revelation
“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.” —Ludwig van Beethoven.
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JBS Haldane: Insult to some god
“There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.” —-J.B.S. Haldane, scientist (5 Nov 1892-1964).
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Simon Sinek: Leader, culture, company
“So goes the leader, so goes the culture. So goes the culture, so goes the company.” —Simon Sinek.
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Edna O’Brien: Most inadequate things
“In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.” —Edna O’Brien, A Fanatic Heart.
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G K Chesterton: Make politics as local as possible
“What we should try to do is make politics as local as possible. Keep the politicians near enough to kick them.” —G K Chesterton.
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Ellen Jane Willis: Moral complexity
‘In its original literal sense, “moral relativism” is simply moral complexity. That is, anyone who agrees that stealing a loaf of bread to feed one’s children is not the moral equivalent of, say, shoplifting a dress for the fun of it, is a relativist of sorts. But in recent years, conservatives bent on reinstating an…
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G K Chesterton: Hot water
“I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.” —G K Chesterton.
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Simon Sinek: One set of eyes
“It’s dangerous to perceive the world through only one set of eyes. The problem is we can only perceive the world through one set of eyes.” —Simon Sinek.
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Patty Duke: Destructive
“I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What’s missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive.” —Patty Duke.
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Stephen Covey: Selfless service
“Selfless service has always been one of the most powerful methods of influence.” —Stephen Covey, writer and educator.
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George Polya: Pedantry and mastery
“Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules. To apply a rule to the letter, rigidly, unquestioningly, in cases where it fits and in cases where it does not fit, is pedantry … To apply a rule with natural ease, with judgment, noticing the cases where it fits, and without ever letting the words of…
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Will & Ariel Durrant: Every vice once a virtue
“Probably every vice was once a virtue—i.e., a quality making for the survival of the individual, the family, or the group. Man’s sins may be the relics of his rise rather than the stigmata of his fall.” —Will and Ariel Durant (The Lessons of History).
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C S Lewis: Conversion
“If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man’s outward actions – – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious as he was before –- then I think we must suspect that his ‘conversion’ was largely imaginary.” —C S Lewis.
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G K Chesterton: Frivolous
“The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason.” —G K Chesterton.
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Simon Sinek: What and why
“Those who know WHAT they do tend to work harder. Those who know WHY tend to work smarter.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Visionaries
“The visionaries aren’t always the ones who have the ideas. The visionaries are the ones who can clearly communicate their ideas to others.” —Simon Sinek.
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William Lloyd Garrison: All mankind
“Our country is the world — our countrymen are all mankind.” —William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist, journalist, and suffragist (12 Dec 1805-1879).
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G K Chesterton: Terrible
“It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.” —G K Chesterton.
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Warren Buffett: Post-bubble periods
“Post-bubble periods, I think, depending on how big the bubble is and how many were participating in it….can produce fallout that not everyone will be terribly good at predicting.” —Warren Buffett (2002 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting).
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Gustave Flaubert: Read in order to live
“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.” —Gustave Flaubert.
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Bob Marley: Just let it be
“Never assume. Never ask. And never demand. Just let it be. If it’s meant to be, it will happen.” —Bob Marley.
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Simon Sinek: Asking for help
“We all understand the importance of asking for help, but those who achieve big things are the ones who accept it when it’s offered.” —Simon Sinek.
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Eckhart Tolle: Powerful spiritual practice
“Do not be concerned with the fruit of your action — just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord. This is a powerful spiritual practice.” —Eckhart Tolle.
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G K Chesterton: Not a private matter
‘There are several things to be noted about this novel maxim, “religion is a private matter.” The first is that it is obviously untrue, except in the sense that it is too true to be useful, or so obvious as to be useless.’ —G K Chesterton.
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John Kerry: For a mistake
“How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?” —John Kerry.
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Niels Bohr: Never express yourself
“Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.” —Niels Bohr.
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G K Chesterton: Modern Thought
“We talk, by a sort of habit, about Modern Thought, forgetting the familiar fact that moderns do not think. They only feel, and that is why they are so much stronger in fiction than in facts; why their novels are so much better than their newspapers.” —G K Chesterton.
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Robert Greene: Path of least resistance
“We descended from chimpanzees. It’s the fact that we tend to react to what’s immediately in front of our face, like a cow or a dog or anything. We bark and that’s who we are. And we tend to always want things to be easier to take the path of least resistance. We all have…
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Emily Dickinson: Truth
“Tell all the Truth but tell it slant– / … The Truth must dazzle gradually / Or every man be blind.” —Emily Dickinson, poet (10 Dec 1830-1886).
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Nikolas Tesla: More systematic and designing
“Our first endeavors are purely instinctive, promptings of an imagination vivid and undisciplined. As we grow older reason asserts itself and we become more and more systematic and designing.” ‒Nikola Tesla, My Inventions, 6 part series in Electrical Experimenter, Feb-Jun and Oct 1919.
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Clive Anderson: Planting trees
“Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, its interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people its a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult.” —Clive Anderson.
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G K Chesterton: Philosophy
“Philosophy is merely thought that has been thought out. It is often a great bore. But man has no alternative, except between being influenced by thought that has been thought out and being influenced by thought that has not been thought out.” —G K Chesterton.
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Peter Kropotkin: Only by terror
“The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.” —Peter Kropotkin.
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Jennifer Yane: One day at a time
“I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.” —Jennifer Yane.
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William Durant: Trouble with most people
“The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.” —William Durant.
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Carl Sagan: Bamboozle
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a…
