Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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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).
