Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Nora Ephron: Continually fascinated
“I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.” —Nora Ephron, journalist, author and filmmaker.
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G K Chesterton: Great lesson
“The great lesson of ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ is that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.” —G K Chesterton.
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Simon Sinek: Great leaders
“Great leaders know that the total knowledge of those around them is vastly greater than everything they know alone.” —Simon Sinek.
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Jawaharlal Nehru: Culture
“Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country’s spirit.” —-Jawaharlal Nehru, freedom fighter and the first Prime Minister of India (14 Nov 1889-1964).
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Will Durrant: Human history
“Human history is a fragment of biology. Man is one of countless millions of species and, like all the rest, is subject to the struggle for existence and the competition of the fittest to survive. All psychology, philosophy, statesmanship, and utopias must make their peace with these biological laws. Man can be traced to about…
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Robert N Charette: Puffery
“To the layperson, puffery seems like a license to lie, which, frankly, isn’t totally wrong. A well-known book on torts by William Prosser and W. Page Keeton stated it this way: ‘The puffing rule amounts to a seller’s privilege to lie his head off so long as he says nothing specific, on the theory that…
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Stefano Gabbana: Behind the scenes
“You have to work very hard behind the scenes, to make a message clear enough for a lot of people to understand.” —Stefano Gabbana.
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Simon Sinek: Organizations
“Average organizations give their people something to work on. Great organizations give their people something to work toward.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Rather
“We would rather align ourselves with an average performer we can trust, over a top performer that we cannot trust.” —Simon Sinek.
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Stan Lee: Geeks
“[Being a ‘geek’] has become a badge of honor. It’s geeks who really make or break a TV show or movie or video game. They’re the ones who are passionate about these things and who collect [the paraphernalia] and talk about them. A geek is really somebody interested in communication and entertainment and [finding] the…
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Stan Lee: The more you read
“The more you read, the better you’re going to become as a storyteller.” –– Stan Lee, IGN.com.
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Stan Lee: Be appreciative
“If there are people who like the work you’ve done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that’s really gratifying. You have to be appreciative.” – Stan Lee, USA Today.
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Stan Lee: Doing a good thing
“I used to be embarrassed because I was just a comic-book writer while other people were building bridges or going on to medical careers. And then I began to realize: entertainment is one of the most important things in people’s lives. Without it they might go off the deep end. I feel that if you’re…
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E L Doctorow: Writing is writing
“Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you’re doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.” —E.L. Doctorow.
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Robert Louis Stevenson: Dreary morals
“If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.” —Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet (13 Nov 1850-1894).
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Stan Lee: Excelsior
“You know, my motto is ‘Excelsior.’ That’s an old word that means ‘upward and onward to greater glory.’ It’s on the seal of the state of New York. Keep moving forward, and if it’s time to go, it’s time. Nothing lasts forever.” –– Stan Lee, Playboy.
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Robert Louis Stevenson: Seeds you plant
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” —Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Elie Wiesel: What hurts the victim most
“What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the silence of the bystander.” —Elie Wiesel, Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor.
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Simon Sinek: Knowledge and wisdom
“Knowledge is understanding based on what has been studied and learned. Wisdom is understanding based on what has been felt and experienced.” —Simon Sinek.
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G K Chesterton: Courage
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.” —G K Chesterton.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Courage
“The best protection any woman can have… is courage.” —Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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Soren Kierkegaard: True authority
“It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires true authority in the use of the comic.” —Soren Kierkegaard, philosopher.
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Anupam Kher: You don’t get to decide
“When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t.” —Anupam Kher.
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G K Chesterton: Government becomes the God
“Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God. That fact is written all across human history; but it is written most plainly across that recent history of Communist Russia; which was created by Lenin.” —G K Chesterton.
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Warren Buffett: Bubbles
“In economics, it’s far easier to tell what will happen than when it will happen. I mean, you can see bubbles develop and things, but you do not know how big the bubble will get.” —Warren Buffett (2005).
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Machiavelli: New order of things
“There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only luke-warm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order. This luke-warmness…
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Kurt Vonnegut: Be careful
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” —Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night.
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Simon Sinek: Stand for people
“Stand for people; not a product or service or metric or number. Stand for real, living, breathing people and we will change the world.” —Simon Sinek.
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Lee Hsien Loong: Long-term perspective
“I think you can only plan in broad terms where you want to go and what are the major pieces which you want to put in place. And then you have to leave a lot of space for the economy to develop, for people to pursue their passions, and for technology to unfold. But you…
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G K Chesterton: Modern toleration
“Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence. To say that I must not deny my opponent’s faith is to say that I must not discuss it; I may not say that Buddhism is false, and that is all I want to say about Buddhism.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Change
“Can you hate the world enough to change it, and yet love it enough to think it worth changing?” —G K Chesterton.
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C S Lewis: Humbled
“In a perfect friendship…each member feels, in his secret heart, humbled before the rest. Sometimes he wonders what he is doing there among his betters. Especially when the whole group is together; each bringing out all that is best, wisest, or funniest in the others.” —C S Lewis.
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G K Chesterton: Social system denies the family
“Hardly anybody dares to defend the family. The world around us has accepted a social system which denies the family. It will sometimes help the child in spite of the family; the mother in spite of the family; the grandfather in spite of the family. It will not help the family.” —G K Chesterton.
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Martin Luther: Husbands and wives
“Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.” —Martin Luther.
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Will Durant: Acted rightly
“We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have these because we have acted rightly.” —Will Durant, historian.
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Bill Mauldin: Advances in civilization
“Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.” —Bill Mauldin, editorial cartoonist (29 Oct 1921-2003).
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Simon Sinek: Dance that makes us human
“Sometimes we give too much too soon. Sometimes we hold back for too long. This is our beautiful dance. Our imperfect dance. This is the dance that makes us human.” —Simon Sinek.
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G K Chesterton: Verbal controversy
“I will not engage in a verbal controversy with the skeptic because long experience has taught me that the skeptic’s ultimate skepticism is about the use of his own words and the reliability of his own intelligence.” —G K Chesterton.
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Erich Auerbach: Differentiated into full individuality
“The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man, for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.” —Erich Auerbach.
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Paul Lockhart: Art of explanation
“By concentrating on what, and leaving out why, mathematics is reduced to an empty shell. The art is not in the ‘truth’ but in the explanation, the argument. It is the argument itself which gives the truth its context, and determines what is really being said and meant. Mathematics is the art of explanation.” —Paul…
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Simon Sinek: Risk to trust others
“If we are unwilling to take the risk to trust others, then others will be unwilling to take the risk to trust us.” —Simon Sinek.
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Rosanne Cash: Quiet, solitary moments
“You begin to realize that everyone has a tragedy and that if he doesn’t, he will. You recognize how much is hidden behind the small courtesies and civilities of everyday existence. Deep sorrow and traces of great loss run through everyone’s lives, and yet, they let others step into the elevator first, wave them ahead…
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Simon Sinek: Group dynamics
“Instead of expending energy to fit into the group, it’s better to expend energy to find the group in which we fit.” —Simon Sinek.
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Patti Page: Dries up
“Your voice dries up if you don’t use it.” —Patti Page, singer (8 Nov 1927-2013).
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Unknown: Pick two
“You can have the project: Done On Time. Done On Budget. Done Properly – Pick two. —Unknown.
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Morley Safer: Reality shows
“What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality, there is nothing real about it.” —Morley Safer.
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Andrew Dickson White: Fanatic’s creed
“The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic’s creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.” —Andrew Dickson White, diplomat, author, co-founder and president of Cornell University (7 Nov 1832-1918).
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G K Chesterton: Voting
“One of the many points on which professional politicians fail to understand human beings is this simple fact that voting is a bore, while arguing, shouting, heckling, and holding up one’s hand are, on the contrary, great fun.” —G K Chesterton.
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Malcolm Muggeridge: Man acting like God
“What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.” —Malcom Muggeridge.
