Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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James Cook: Just once
“Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.” —James Cook.
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Simon Sinek: Being a leader
“The first criteria of being a leader is to practice empathy – the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.” —Simon Sinek.
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James Jones: Untruthful combat
“I don’t think that combat has ever been written about truthfully; it has always been described in terms of bravery and cowardice. I won’t even accept these words as terms of human reference any more. And anyway, hell, they don’t even apply to what, in actual fact, modern warfare has become.” —-James Jones, novelist (6…
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Howard Marks: Are you prepared?
“Controlling risk is the mark of a professional. Anybody can make money when the market goes up. And most of the time the market goes up. And anybody who takes above-average risk can do above average when the market rises. So achieving returns is not a point of distinction in good times. In my opinion,…
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Natalie Merchant: Dissent without fear
“There is one tradition in America I am proud to inherit. It is our first freedom and the truest expression of our Americanism: the ability to dissent without fear. It is our right to utter the words, ‘I disagree.’ We must feel at liberty to speak those words to our neighbors, our clergy, our educators,…
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Vivien Leigh: False life
“I’m not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.” —Vivien Leigh.
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Ethics is design
“Ethics, like technology, is design. As we’re designing the system, we’re designing society. Ethical rules that we choose to put in that design [impact the society]…Nothing is self-evident. Everything has to be put out there as something that we think will be a good idea as a component of our society.” — Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
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Walter Cronkite: Libraries
“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” —Walter Cronkite.
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Leonardo da Vinci: Hanged in a year
“He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.” —Leonardo da Vinci,artist, inventor and scientist.
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Conor Cruise O’Brien: Christian unity
“Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity.” —Conor Cruise O’Brien.
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Simon Sinek: Delicate blend
“Pure pragmatism cannot imagine a bold future. Pure idealism cannot get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives innovation.” —Simon Sinek.
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Rose Bird: Not good tenants
“We have probed the earth, excavated it, burned it, ripped things from it, buried things in it, chopped down its forests, leveled its hills, muddied its waters, and dirtied its air. That does not fit my definition of a good tenant. If we were here on a month-to-month basis, we would have been evicted long…
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Ken Rosewall: Concentration
“If I were asked to name one aspect of tennis that is the biggest weakness of players of all levels, I would probably say concentration. However good your shots, however fast your movement and reflexes, all is lost if the mind is not controlling every move.” —Ken Rosewall.
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G K Chesterton: Lunacy of men
“There is no limit to the lunacy of men when they think themselves superior both to laughter and humility.” —G K Chesterton.
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Simon Sinek: Always plan
“Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan.” —Simon Sinek.
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Marcel Proust: Whole gamut of feelings
“A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and more vital than does a man of genius.” —Marcel Proust.
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Christopher Dawson: Catholicism to complete secularism
“Protestantism, Liberalism, and Communism are three successive stages by which our civilization has passed from Catholicism to complete secularism. The first eliminated the Church, the second eliminated Christianity, and the third eliminates the human soul.” —Christopher Dawson.
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Francis Arinze: God seeking humanity
“With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity.” —Francis Arinze.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay: Correctly informed
“Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.” —Thomas Babington Macaulay, author and…
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Alexander Alekhine: Objective
“Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.” —Alexander Alekhine.
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Simon Sinek: Leaders
“Leaders don’t complain about what’s not working. Leaders celebrate what is working and work to amplify it.” —Simon Sinek.
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John Adams: Honest and wise men
“May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof (White House).” —John Adams, 2nd US President, and the first one to live in the White House (30 Oct 1735-1826).
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Warren Buffett: Simpatico
“If you really think you’re in with people that have got a good business, but they’re going to keep doing dumb things with your money, you’ll probably do better to get out and get in with people who’ve got a good business and you think they’re going to do sensible things with it…. As a…
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G K Chesterton: Ideas and individuals
‘”Woe unto you when all men speak well of you” is true of ideas as well as individuals.’ —G K Chesterton.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan: More than is necessary
“Never say more than is necessary.” —Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
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G K Chesterton: Grace before meals
“You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Test of a good religion
“It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.” —G K Chesterton.
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Queen Marie of Romania: Fashion and etiquette
“Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.” —Queen Marie of Romania.
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G K Chesterton: Joking
“Joking is undignified; that is why it is so good for one’s soul.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Common sense
“The first effect of not believing in God, is that you lose your common sense.” —G K Chesterton.
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Edith Head: Dresses
“Your dresses should be tight enough to show you’re a woman and loose enough to show you’re a lady.” —Edith Head.
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Isaac Asimov: Improvise
“To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.” —Isaac Asimov, writer and professor.
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C S Lewis: Ghastly simplicity
“In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.” C S Lewis, The Abolition of Man.
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Lao Tzu: Sick
“A man who knows how little he knows is well; a man who knows how much he knows is sick.” —Lao Tzu, philosopher.
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G K Chesterton: Morbid
“According to a modern critic, it is morbid to confess your sins. I should say that the morbid thing is not to confess them. The morbid thing is to conceal your sins and let them eat your heart out, which is the happy state of most people in highly civilized communities.” —G K Chesterton.
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Warren Buffett: Brands and retailers
“There will be a battle, always, between brands and retailers, because the retailer would like his name to be the brand. And, to the extent that people trust Costco or Walmart more than they — or as much as — they trust the brand, then the value of having the brand moves over to the…
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G K Chesterton: All women dress to be noticed
“All women dress to be noticed — gross and vulgar women to be grossly and vulgarly noticed, wise and modest women to be wisely and modestly noticed.” —G K Chesterton.
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Simon Sinek: When everything goes wrong
“We learn the most, not when all of the things go right. We learn the most when everything goes wrong.” —Simon Sinek.
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Michael Gartner: Change the Constitution
“There is no reason for anyone in this country, anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun… and the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.” —Michael Gartner.
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Muriel Rukeyser: In time of crisis
“In time of crisis, we summon up our strength. Then, if we are lucky, we are able to call every resource, every forgotten image that can leap to our quickening, every memory that can make us know our power.” —Muriel Rukeyser, poet.
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Brenda Ueland: Hold your audience
“You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end — much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you.” —Brenda Ueland, writer (24 Oct 1891-1985).
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Sybil Thorndike: Hysterical
“It’s only people who are hysterical who can play hysterical parts.” —Sybil Thorndike.
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Simon Sinek: Movement
“A movement only exists when people are inspired to move, to do something, to make the cause their own.” —Simon Sinek.
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Maya Angelou: Unbeatable combination
“The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination.” —Maya Angelou, writer and civil rights activist.
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Simon Sinek: Crusade
“Systems and processes are essential to keep the crusade going, but they should not replace the crusade.” —Simon Sinek.
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G K Chesterton: A newspaper
“We do not want a newspaper to give us a vision of the world made perfect; we want a Church for that. We do not want a newspaper to give us good news; we want a Gospel for that. We want a newspaper to give us true news; not elevating news or improving news.” —G…
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Anonymous: Better organized
“A good forecaster is not smarter than everyone else, he merely has his ignorance better organized. ” —Anonymous.
