Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Charlie Munger: Lemon into lemonade
“We’ve done a lot of that, scrambled out of wrong decisions. I’d argue that’s a big part of having a reasonable record in life. You can’t avoid the wrong decisions. But if you recognize them promptly and do something about them, you can frequently turn the lemon into lemonade.” —Charlie Munger.
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Robert Schuller: Problem rather than the solution
“Never bring the problem-solving stage into the decision-making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.” — Robert Schuller.
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G K Chesterton: Why old fairy tales endure forever
“This is why the new novels die so quickly, and why the old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal human boy; it is his adventures that are startling; they startle him because he is normal. But in the modern psychological novel the hero is abnormal.” —G K Chesterton.
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Christopher Alexander: Patterns
“In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it.” —Christopher Alexander.
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Upton Sinclair: Understand something
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” —Upton Sinclair, novelist and reformer (20 Sep 1878-1968).
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G K Chesterton: Decadence
“Men in a state of decadence employ professionals to fight for them, professionals to dance for them, and a professional to rule them.” —G K Chesterton.
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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 the ideas to others.” —Simon Sinek.
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Gore Vidal: Habituated to liars
“Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to bring the truth back.” —Gore Vidal, writer (3 Oct 1925-2012).
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G K Chesterton: More passionately and more devoutly
“Just as a virile man will love more passionately than an emasculate man, so a virile man will believe more devoutly than an emasculate man.” —G K Chesterton.
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Erik von Detten: Honesty above all
“In a girl I look for honesty above all, someone who I can carry on a conversation with, someone who has a good sense of humor, someone who’s true to herself, and to top it, someone who can get ready for a date in less than ten minutes.” —Erik von Detten.
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Cass Elliot: Working within
“I think everybody who has a brain should get involved in politics. Working within. Not criticizing it from the outside. Become an active participant, no matter how feeble you think the effort is.” —Cass Elliot, singer (19 Sep 1941-1974).
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G K Chesterton: Treachery
“Government may grow into something worse than injustice; it may turn into treachery.” —G K Chesterton.
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Christopher Dawson: Challenge of secularism
“The challenge of secularism must be met on the cultural level, if it is to be met at all; and if Christians cannot assert their right to exist in the sphere of higher education, they will eventually be pushed, not only out of modern culture, but out of physical existence.” —Christopher Dawson.
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Mahatma Gandhi: Seven blunders of the world
“Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle.” —Mahatma Gandhi (2 Oct 1869-1948).
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Isaac Asimov: No sensible decision
“No sensible decision can be made without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it might be.” — Isaac Asimov.
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G K Chesterton: Common sense revival
“I do indeed call for a revival, a common sense revival, in defense of justice, freedom, property, and the family.” —G K Chesterton.
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C S Lewis: Free will
“God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine a creature which was free but had no possibility of going wrong, but I can’t. If a thing is free to be good it’s also free to be bad.” —C S Lewis.
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Graham Greene: Champagne
“Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.” —Graham Greene.
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G K Chesterton: No standard
“If we have no standard for judging whether anything is right, how on earth can we decide that the world is wrong?” —G K Chesterton.
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Napoleon Bonaparte: Opinionative
“The greater the man, the less is he opinionative.” —Napoleon Bonaparte, military leader and emperor.
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G K Chesterton: Right is right
“Right is right, even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong about it.” —G K Chesterton.
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C S Lewis: Act as if you did
“Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.” —C S Lewis.
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Jhumpa Lahiri: Being a writer
‘Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying, “Listen to me”.’ ~Jhumpa Lahiri.
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G K Chesterton: Draw the line somewhere
“It is not easy to draw the line anywhere; that is why it is so necessary to draw the line somewhere.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Happiest of human fates
“The happiest of human fates is to find something to love; but the second happiest fate is certainly to find something to fight.” —G K Chesterton.
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Marcus Aurelius: Bad behaviour
“When faced with people’s bad behavior, turn around and ask when you have acted like that.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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C S Lewis: His prayer for them
“In praying for people one dislikes I find it helpful to remember that one is joining in His prayer for them.” —C S Lewis.
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Eckhart Tolle: Human relationships
“Most human relationships consist mainly of minds interacting with each other, not of human beings communicating, being in communion. No relationship can thrive in that way, and that is why there is so much conflict in relationships.” —Eckhart Tolle.
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G K Chesterton: Bad arguments
“I strongly object to bad arguments even for good causes — or rather, especially for good causes.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Truth and error
“Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.” —G K Chesterton.
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Dale Dauten: Don’t burn bridges
“There aren’t too many principles of proper business conduct with which just about everybody will agree. Two come to mind: 1. Unless you’re a professional athlete, don’t offer co-workers encouragement by patting them on the butt, and 2. Don’t burn bridges.” —Dale Dauten.
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G K Chesterton: Howled down
“We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.” —G K Chesterton.
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Confucius: Equal
“When you see someone who is worthy, concentrate upon becoming their equal; when you see someone who is unworthy, use this as an opportunity to look within yourself.” —Confucius.
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C S Lewis: Appointed consummation
“I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.” —C S Lewis.
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G K Chesterton: False theory
“It can still occasionally be dangerous that the public should be deceived on points of fact, but it is far more dangerous that the public should be deceived on points of theory; for one false theory will falsify a hundred facts.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Metaphors
“Men tell more truth by their metaphors than by their statements.” —G K Chesterton.
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Jay Samit: Energy
“Your energy is a valuable resource; distribute it wisely.” —Jay Samit, digital media innovator.
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John Cage: Ideas
“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.” —John Cage, composer (5 Sep 1912-1992).
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G K Chesterton: Persecution
“When the world next tries persecution seriously it will probably be under some new name or with some new excuse.” —G K Chesterton.
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Evelyn Beatrice Hall: By character
“It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.” —Evelyn Beatrice Hall, biographer (28 Sep 1868-1956).
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Simon Sinek: Leaders
“Leaders don’t look for recognition from others. Leaders look for others to recognize.” —Simon Sinek.
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Harold Taylor: Roots of true achievement
“The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.” —Harold Taylor.
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Dorothy Parker: Quicksilver
“Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays in the palm; clutch it, and it darts away.” —Dorothy Parker, author (22 Aug 1893-1967).
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Howard Marks: Judgment
“There can’t be a rule that always works…. These things cannot be reduced to a rule. The market operates so as to confound rule makers…. It all comes down to judgment. If we’re going to have superior investment performance we have to have superior judgment. You can work on your processes, both intellectually and emotionally,…
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G K Chesterton: Truth is sacred
“Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.” —G K Chesterton.
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Diane Abbott: Junk food
“Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.” —Diane Abbott.
