Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Saint Ignatius: Solid virtues
“Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will — that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.” —Saint Ignatius.
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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa: Things will have to change
“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.” —Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.
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Lady Bird Johnson: Children
“Children are likely to live up to what you believe in them.” —Lady Bird Johnson.
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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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Mikheil Saakashvili: Create crises
“The more insecure you are, the more prone you are to create crises.” —Mikheil Saakashvili.
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Simon Sinek: Confident versus insecure
“The confident ask questions to learn what will connect. The insecure just keep talking with the hope something will stick.” —Simon Sinek.
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G K Chesterton: Beauty and the Beast
“Beauty and the Beast deals with a very deep idea: that love creates beauty.” —G K Chesterton.
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Bill Walsh: Writing headlines
“Writing headlines is a specialty – there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldnt write a headline to save their lives.” —Bill Walsh.
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William Arthur Ward: Gratitude
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” —William Arthur Ward.
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Lillian Smith: Return to anguish
“The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.” —Lillian Smith,writer and social critic.
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Simon Sinek: Value
“Our value is not determined by how many people show up; our value is determined by how the people who show up feel when they leave.” —Simon Sinek.
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Phil Ochs: You must protest
“You must protest / It is your diamond duty / Ah but in such an ugly time / The true protest is beauty.” —Phil Ochs, folksinger (19 Dec 1940-1976).
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G K Chesterton: Moral standard
“A moral standard must remain the same or it is not a moral standard.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Always sane
“Christianity is always out of fashion because it is always sane; and all fashions are mild insanities.” —G K Chesterton.
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Paulo Coelho: Leading lives
“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.” — Paulo Coelho.
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Simon Sinek: Loyalty
“Loyalty is the desire to defend someone when they are not there to defend themselves.” —Simon Sinek.
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Paul Klee: Art
“Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.” – – -Paul Klee, painter (18 Dec 1879-1940).
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Steven Spielberg: Mentoring
“The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.” —Steven Spielberg.
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Simon Sinek: Ideas
“Ideas alone are not scalable. Only when an idea is put into words that people can clearly understand can an idea inspire action.” —Simon Sinek.
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G K Chesterton: Science and philosophy
“Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.” —G K Chesterton.
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Chelsea Manning: Patriotism
“Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power.” —Chelsea Manning, activist and whistleblower (b. 17 Dec 1987).
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Ludwig van Beethoven: Higher revelation
“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.” —Ludwig van Beethoven.
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JBS Haldane: Insult to some god
“There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.” —-J.B.S. Haldane, scientist (5 Nov 1892-1964).
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Simon Sinek: Leader, culture, company
“So goes the leader, so goes the culture. So goes the culture, so goes the company.” —Simon Sinek.
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Edna O’Brien: Most inadequate things
“In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.” —Edna O’Brien, A Fanatic Heart.
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G K Chesterton: Make politics as local as possible
“What we should try to do is make politics as local as possible. Keep the politicians near enough to kick them.” —G K Chesterton.
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Ellen Jane Willis: Moral complexity
‘In its original literal sense, “moral relativism” is simply moral complexity. That is, anyone who agrees that stealing a loaf of bread to feed one’s children is not the moral equivalent of, say, shoplifting a dress for the fun of it, is a relativist of sorts. But in recent years, conservatives bent on reinstating an…
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G K Chesterton: Hot water
“I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.” —G K Chesterton.
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Simon Sinek: One set of eyes
“It’s dangerous to perceive the world through only one set of eyes. The problem is we can only perceive the world through one set of eyes.” —Simon Sinek.
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Patty Duke: Destructive
“I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What’s missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive.” —Patty Duke.
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Stephen Covey: Selfless service
“Selfless service has always been one of the most powerful methods of influence.” —Stephen Covey, writer and educator.
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George Polya: Pedantry and mastery
“Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules. To apply a rule to the letter, rigidly, unquestioningly, in cases where it fits and in cases where it does not fit, is pedantry … To apply a rule with natural ease, with judgment, noticing the cases where it fits, and without ever letting the words of…
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Will & Ariel Durrant: Every vice once a virtue
“Probably every vice was once a virtue—i.e., a quality making for the survival of the individual, the family, or the group. Man’s sins may be the relics of his rise rather than the stigmata of his fall.” —Will and Ariel Durant (The Lessons of History).
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C S Lewis: Conversion
“If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man’s outward actions – – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious as he was before –- then I think we must suspect that his ‘conversion’ was largely imaginary.” —C S Lewis.
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G K Chesterton: Frivolous
“The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason.” —G K Chesterton.
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Simon Sinek: What and why
“Those who know WHAT they do tend to work harder. Those who know WHY tend to work smarter.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Visionaries
“The visionaries aren’t always the ones who have the ideas. The visionaries are the ones who can clearly communicate their ideas to others.” —Simon Sinek.
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William Lloyd Garrison: All mankind
“Our country is the world — our countrymen are all mankind.” —William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist, journalist, and suffragist (12 Dec 1805-1879).
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G K Chesterton: Terrible
“It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.” —G K Chesterton.
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Warren Buffett: Post-bubble periods
“Post-bubble periods, I think, depending on how big the bubble is and how many were participating in it….can produce fallout that not everyone will be terribly good at predicting.” —Warren Buffett (2002 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting).
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Gustave Flaubert: Read in order to live
“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.” —Gustave Flaubert.
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Bob Marley: Just let it be
“Never assume. Never ask. And never demand. Just let it be. If it’s meant to be, it will happen.” —Bob Marley.
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Simon Sinek: Asking for help
“We all understand the importance of asking for help, but those who achieve big things are the ones who accept it when it’s offered.” —Simon Sinek.
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Eckhart Tolle: Powerful spiritual practice
“Do not be concerned with the fruit of your action — just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord. This is a powerful spiritual practice.” —Eckhart Tolle.
