Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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C S Lewis: When man approaches God
“Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?” C S Lewis, The Four Loves.
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Joseph Conrad: Conscience
“All a man can betray is his conscience.” —Joseph Conrad, novelist (3 Dec 1857-1924).
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Joseph Conrad: Being a woman
“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.” —Joseph Conrad, Chance.
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Nelly Furtado: Connection to nature
“Our connection to nature grounds us, it makes us more spiritually aware. We must keep the legacy of nature materially alive for future generations.” —Nelly Furtado.
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Rachel Carson: Reserves of strength
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.” —Rachel Carson, biologist and conservationist.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Envy
“It is much harder to conceal one’s envy than to detect that of others.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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George H W Bush: Responsibility and opportunity
“In the wake of the Cold War, in a world where we are the only remaining superpower, it is the role of the United States to marshal its moral and material resources to promote a democratic peace. It is our responsibility, it is our opportunity to lead. There is no one else.” George H W…
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Simon Sinek: Work smart, play always
‘”We work hard, play hard” sounds terribly unhealthy. I think we would all be a lot healthier, happier and find greater balance in our lives if we learn to work smart and play always.’ —Simon Sinek.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Rationality
“Rationality resides in what you do, not in what you think or in what you “believe” (skin in the game)…. Rationality is about survival.” —Nassim Taleb, Skin in the Game.
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Warren Buffett: Investment and speculation
“All investment is, is laying out some money now to get more money back in the future. Now, there’s two ways of looking at the getting the money back. One is from what the asset itself will produce. That’s investment. One is from what somebody else will pay you for it later on, irrespective of…
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Tyler Joseph: Music
“Music seems to hold everything together. It seems to make things not so chaotic sometimes. It seems to make things make more sense sometimes.” —Tyler Joseph.
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Winston Churchill: Strategy and results
“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” — Winston Churchill.
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Simon Sinek: Culture
“A culture is strong when people work with each other, for each other. A culture is weak when people work against each other, for themselves.” —Simon Sinek.
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Eckhart Tolle: Natural state
“The dog is still in the natural state. And you can easily see that, because you have problems and your dog doesn’t. And while your happy moments may be rare, your dog celebrates life continuously.” —Eckhart Tolle.
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Abraham Lincoln: Slaves and masters
“As I would not be a slave so I would not be a master.” —Abraham Lincoln.
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Gordon Parks: Subject matter
“The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.” —Gordon Parks.
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G K Chesterton: Internal honesty and peace
“Abolish religion if you like. Throw everything on secular government if you like. But do not be surprised if a machinery that was never meant to do anything but secure external decency and order fails to secure internal honesty and peace.” —G K Chesterton.
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Chinua Achebe: Mask dancing
“The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.” —Chinua Achebe, writer and professor (16 Nov 1930-2013.
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Wendell Phillips: Write on my gravestone
‘Write on my gravestone: “Infidel, Traitor”—- infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.’ —Wendell Phillips, human rights activist and attorney (29 Nov 1811-1884).
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G K Chesterton: Extraordinary person
“A man who attacks the Christian religion in the modern world is not an unheard-of or extraordinary person. The extraordinary person is the person who defends the Christian religion.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Ring of administrators
“The trouble with modern England is not how many or how few people vote; it is that, however many people vote, a small ring of administrators do what they please. Before people can vote against this ring, people must know about it; and the ring has decided people shall not know.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Public education
“Public education has not produced an educated public.” —G K Chesterton.
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Simon Sinek: Let’s invest in people
“Let’s invest in people, not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people, and good people can always make a bad idea better.” —Simon Sinek.
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G K Chesterton: Dogmatic without knowing it
“The special mark of the modern world is not that it is skeptical, but that it is dogmatic without knowing it.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Arguing versus quarreling
“People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. And it is extraordinary to notice how few people in the modern world can argue. This is why there are so many quarrels, breaking out again and again, and never coming to any natural end.” —G K Chesterton.
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Pico Iyer: Answerlessness
“Young societies, like young men, seek an answer for everything; older ones know that they’re obliged to live in a state of answerlessness.” —Pico Iyer.
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Rita Mae Brown: Reward for conformity
“The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.” —Rita Mae Brown, writer (b. 28 Nov 1944).
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G K Chesterton: Irreligion
“The truth is that Irreligion is the opium of the people. Wherever the people do not believe in something beyond the world, they will worship the world. But, above all, they will worship the strongest thing in the world.” —G K Chesterton.
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John Galliano: Don’t know how to handle it
“Men don’t want another man to look at their woman because they don’t know how to handle it.” —John Galliano.
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Simon Sinek: Giving
“The more one gives, the better one feels, and the better one feels, the easier it becomes to give.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: True friend
“A true friend is someone with whom protocol is no longer necessary.” —Simon Sinek.
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Bruce Lee: Use only that which works
“Use only that which works and take it from any place you can find it.” —Bruce Lee, martial artist and actor (27 Nov 1940-1973).
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Warren Buffett: Best mechanism you can have
“What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact…. That is a talent everyone seems to have mastered. And how do we guard ourselves against it? Well, we don’t achieve it perfectly. I mean, Charlie and I have made big mistakes because, in effect,…
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Thomas Kempis: Philosophy
“Philosophy will be less consolation to you than a good clean conscience, and all the treasures on earth won’t outweigh the contempt of riches.” —Thomas Kempis.
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Fr. Ronald Knox: Modern mind cannot accept it
“The great argument used now against any theological proposition is not, that it is untrue, or unthinkable, or unedifying, or unscriptural, or unorthodox, but simply, that the modern mind cannot accept it.” —Fr. Ronald Knox.
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Eric Hoffer: Movement, business, racket
“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” ― Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time.
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G K Chesterton: Revolution
“No man has ever seen a revolution. Mobs pouring through the palaces, blood pouring down the gutters, the guillotine lifted higher than the throne, a prison in ruins, a people in arms — these things are not revolution, but the results of revolution.” —G K Chesterton.
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Charles A Beard: Mad with power
“Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.” —Charles A Beard.
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Angela Carter: Scars in our culture
“It’s one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves.” —Angela Carter, writer.
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George Moore: In search
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” —George Moore, writer.
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Simon Sinek: Magical partnership
“It is the magical partnership of the person with their head in the clouds and the person with their feet on the ground that creates progress.” —Simon Sinek.
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Charles Schultz: Best theology
“The best theology is probably no theology; just love one another.” —Charles Schulz, cartoonist (26 Nov 1922-2000).
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Pico Iyer: Only privacy makes us happy
“So many of us hunger more and more for publicity even though it’s only privacy that really makes us happy.” —Pico Iyer.
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Bruce Paltrow: Homogenized
“Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost.” —Bruce Paltrow.
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Simon Sinek: In costume
“The ones among us who are truly in costume are those who lie, fake and hide. Our lives change for the better when we realize that we don’t have to know everything and we don’t have to pretend we do.” —Simon Sinek.
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Earl Nightingale: Am I mass-motivated?
“Am I motivated by what I really want out of life — or am I mass-motivated?” —Earl Nightingale.
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Goethe: Just as wise as formerly
“I’ve studied now Philosophy And Jurisprudence, Medicine, And even, alas! Theology All through and through with ardour keen! Here now I stand, poor fool, and see I’m just as wise as formerly.” —Goethe (1808).
