Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Howard Marks: Things not going the way we want
“…in my view, risk is primarily the likelihood of permanent capital loss. But there’s also such a thing as opportunity risk: the likelihood of missing out on potential gains. Put the two together and we see that risk is the possibility of things not going the way we want.” —Howard Marks.
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G K Chesterton: Fair criticism
“I have met hundreds of men who said that they would not object to a fair criticism, but I never met one man who admitted that he had received one.” —G K Chesterton.
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Doris Lessing: Middle-aged and anonymous
“All one’s life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to be noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. It’s a positive thing. You can move about unnoticed…
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C S Lewis: Put away childish things
“When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” —C S Lewis.
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Sarah Bernhardt: Fine bodily proportions
“The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.” —Sarah Bernhardt.
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Jimmy Carter: Strong nation
“A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It is a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.” —Jimmy Carter, 39th US President, Nobel…
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Eckhart Tolle: Don’t seek happiness
“Don’t seek happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from unhappiness is attainable now, by facing what is rather than making up stories about it.” —Eckhart Tolle.
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Carrie Fisher: Life and art
“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.” —Carrie Fisher.
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Marcus Aurelius: Crush of circumstances
“Today I escaped from the crush of circumstances, or better put, I threw them out, for the crush wasn’t from outside me but in my own assumptions.” — Marcus Aurelius.
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G K Chesterton: Just as easy and feasible
“It is just as easy to massacre men in the name of Man as to burn churches in the name of God. It is as feasible to decree inhumanity in humanitarian language as to decree sacrilege in sacred language.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Comically wrong
“I write chiefly because I find so many people quite comically wrong.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Those who hate Christianity
“There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.” —G K Chesterton.
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Monica Ali: Certain
“The thing about getting older is that you don’t need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.” —Monica Ali.
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G K Chesterton: Shortest cut to the practical
“Modern people will never settle their problems until they understand that the shortest cut to the practical is through the theoretical.” —G K Chesterton.
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Simon Sinek: Primary ingredient
“The primary ingredient for progress is optimism — the unwavering belief that something can be better drives the human race forward.” —Simon Sinek.
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G K Chesterton: Church that will move the world
“We do not want, as the newspapers say, a Church that will move with the world. We want a Church that will move the world.” —G K Chesterton.
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C S Lewis: Things I can do
“The promise, made when I am in love and because I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love. A promise must be about things that I can do, about actions.” —C S Lewis.
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Leigh Hunt: The same people
“The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.” —Leigh Hunt, poet and essayist (19 Oct 1784-1859).
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Samuel Adams: Experienced patriots
“If ever the time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.” —Samuel Adams, revolutionary (27 Sep 1722-1803).
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Simon Sinek: What matters…
“It doesn’t matter how much we know. What matters is how clearly others can understand what we know.” —Simon Sinek.
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Pierre Trudeau: Not to be worshipped
“The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.” —-Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (18 Oct 1919-2000).
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Eckhart Tolle: Surrender
“Your relationships will be changed profoundly by surrender. If you can never accept what is, by implication you will not be able to accept anybody the way they are. You will judge, criticize, label, reject, or attempt to change people.” —Eckhart Tolle.
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G K Chesterton: Imbecile habit
“An imbecile habit has risen in modern controversy of saying that…some dogma was credible in the twelfth century, but is not credible in the twentieth. You might as well say that a certain philosophy can be believed on Mondays, but cannot be believed on Tuesdays.” —G K Chesterton.
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Michael Macri: Live powerfully
“No amount of regret can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future. Live powerfully in the present moment.” ― Michael Macri.
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G K Chesterton: Cruel judgments
“If you knowingly permit unreasonable judgments, they will very soon be unjust judgments. If you knowingly permit unjust judgments they will very soon be cruel judgments.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Civilization and civility
“If there was one thing which we did suppose was done for us by civilization, it was to make us civil. The very word politeness is really the Greek for civilization, just as the very word civilization is really Latin for politeness.” —G K Chesterton.
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Arthur Miller: Right regrets
“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.” —-Arthur Miller, playwright and essayist (17 Oct 1915-2005).
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G K Chesterton: Every creed except his own
“These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.” —G K Chesterton.
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C S Lewis: Never gave a thought to Christ
“There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself…as if the good Lord had nothing to do but exist! Some…were so occupied in spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.” —C S Lewis.
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Norm MacDonald: Comedy is surprises
“Comedy is surprises, so if you’re intending to make somebody laugh and they don’t laugh, that’s funny.” —Norm MacDonald.
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Malcolm X: Most powerful entity on earth
“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent and that’s power because they control the minds of the masses.” —Malcolm X.
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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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T S Eliot: Half of the harm
“Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them.” —T.S. Eliot, poet (26 Sep 1888-1965).
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John Kenneth Galbraith: Busily employed
“One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.” —John Kenneth Galbraith, economist.
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Simon Sinek: Confidence
“Confidence is believing you’re good. Cockiness is believing you’re better than anyone else. Leaders need to be confident not cocky.” —Simon Sinek.
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Noah Webster: Lexicographer’s business
“A lexicographer’s business is solely to collect, arrange, and define the words that usage presents to his hands. He has no right to proscribe words; he is to present them as they are.” —-Noah Webster, lexicographer (16 Oct 1758-1843).
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Charlie Munger: That’s the game
“The game in our kind of life is being able to recognize a good idea when…it rarely is presented to you. And I think that’s something you have to prepare for over a long period. What is the old saying? That opportunity comes to the prepared mind? And I don’t think you can teach people…
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James Newman: How far away you are
“The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.” —James Newman.
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Christopher Dawson: Spiritual alienation
“This spiritual alienation of its own greatest minds is the price that every civilization has to pay when it loses its religious foundations, and is contented with a purely material success.” —Christopher Dawson.
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G K Chesterton: Socialism
“What’s worthwhile to point out, first and last, is that Socialism is a tyranny; that it is inevitably, even avowedly and almost justifiably, a tyranny. It’s the pretense that government can prevent all injustice by being directly responsible for practically anything that happens.” —G K Chesterton.
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Simon Sinek: Great leaders
“Great leaders don’t try to be perfect. Great leaders try to be themselves. And that’s what makes them great.” —Simon Sinek.
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C S Lewis: Compound interest
“Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which…you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.” —C S Lewis.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: Mountains of truth
“In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will get up higher today or you will exercise your strength so as to be able to get up higher tomorrow.” —Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (15 Oct 1844-1900).
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Christopher Dawson: Society
“A society which has lost its religion becomes sooner or later a society which has lost its culture.” —Christopher Dawson.
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Charlie Munger: More felicity
“Generally speaking, there’s more felicity to be gained…from reducing expectations than in any other way.” —Charlie Munger.
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Jeff Bezos: Part of the process
“If you’re going to do anything new or different in the world, it is going to be misunderstood. Sometimes by well-meaning critics. Sometimes by self-interested critics. You’ll get all kinds. And it’s okay. It’s all part of the process. The only way to avoid criticism altogether is to be completely conventional in everything you do.…
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G K Chesterton: Opponents of Christianity
“Opponents of Christianity will believe anything except Christianity.” —G K Chesterton.
