Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Pico Iyer: Expanding our emotional range
“Widening our attention span is a technical term for simply expanding our emotional range—which is why the longer we can give our attention to something, the happier we are.” —Pico Iyer.
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Napoleon Bonaparte: Art of war
“You must not fight too often with one enemy or you will teach him all your art of war.” — Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Marlene Dietrich: Friends
“It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” —Marlene Dietrich.
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Evelyn Beatrice Hall: By character
“It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.” —Evelyn Beatrice Hall, writer.
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Baba Amte: Ideal in life
“I don’t want to be a great leader; I want to be a man who goes around with a little oil can and when he sees a breakdown, offers his help. To me, the man who does that is greater than any holy man in saffron-colored robes. The mechanic with the oilcan: that is my…
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Ben Franklin: Continual Christmas
“Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, no example sway thee, no persuasion move thee, to do any thing which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollily; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.” —Ben Franklin.
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Sydney Harris: Only fault
“People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.” —Sydney Harris, essayist and drama critic.
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Carlos Castaneda: Does this path have a heart?
“Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn’t, it is of no use.” —Carlos Castaneda.
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve: Enemies
“Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavor to have those who do us honor.” —Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, writer and literary critic.
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Shane Parrish: Impeccable character
“One drawback to surrounding yourself with only people of impeccable character is that over time you think that’s the norm.” —Shane Parrish.
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Pico Iyer: When young
“When young we laugh at the world because we’re so sure we’re on top of it; older, we laugh mostly at ourselves because we realize we don’t have a clue.” —Pico Iyer.
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Saint Ignatius: Solid virtues
“Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will — that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.” —Saint Ignatius.
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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa: Things will have to change
“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.” —Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.
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Lady Bird Johnson: Children
“Children are likely to live up to what you believe in them.” —Lady Bird Johnson.
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G K Chesterton: Next great heresy
“The next great heresy is going to be simply an attack on morality; and especially sexual morality. And it is coming from the living exultant energy of the rich resolved to enjoy themselves at last…The madness of tomorrow is not in Moscow, but much more in Manhattan.” —G K Chesterton.
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Mikheil Saakashvili: Create crises
“The more insecure you are, the more prone you are to create crises.” —Mikheil Saakashvili.
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Simon Sinek: Confident versus insecure
“The confident ask questions to learn what will connect. The insecure just keep talking with the hope something will stick.” —Simon Sinek.
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G K Chesterton: Beauty and the Beast
“Beauty and the Beast deals with a very deep idea: that love creates beauty.” —G K Chesterton.
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Bill Walsh: Writing headlines
“Writing headlines is a specialty – there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldnt write a headline to save their lives.” —Bill Walsh.
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William Arthur Ward: Gratitude
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” —William Arthur Ward.
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Lillian Smith: Return to anguish
“The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.” —Lillian Smith,writer and social critic.
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Simon Sinek: Value
“Our value is not determined by how many people show up; our value is determined by how the people who show up feel when they leave.” —Simon Sinek.
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Phil Ochs: You must protest
“You must protest / It is your diamond duty / Ah but in such an ugly time / The true protest is beauty.” —Phil Ochs, folksinger (19 Dec 1940-1976).
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G K Chesterton: Moral standard
“A moral standard must remain the same or it is not a moral standard.” —G K Chesterton.
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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.
