Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Thomas Paine: Trouble
“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.” —Thomas Paine, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary.
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Jodi Picoult: Because they’re not perfect
“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.” —Jodi Picoult, writer.
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Howard Zinn: History is instructive
“I would encourage people to look around them in their community and find an organization that is doing something that they believe in, even if that organization has only five people, or ten people, or twenty people, or a hundred people. And to look at history and understand that when change takes place it takes…
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Charlie Munger: Unreasonable expectations of life
“I think if you have very unreasonable expectations of life, it makes life much more miserable. Much better to get your expectations within reason. It’s much easier to reduce expectations to some reasonable level than it is to get superhuman achievements.” —Charlie Munger.
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C S Lewis: Divine humility
“I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England. I did not then see what is now the most shining and obvious thing; the Divine humility which will accept a convert even on such terms.” —C S Lewis.
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Patrick Swayze: It’d drive me crazy
“I don’t want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don’t want to be the Dance Dude. I don’t want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it’d drive me crazy.” —Patrick Swayze.
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Keanu Reeves: Most beautiful thing on God’s Earth
“It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.” —Keanu Reeves.
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George Clooney: Most public of arenas
“The loneliest you will get is in the most public of arenas: You will go to a place and end up in the smallest compartment possible, because it’s a distraction to everybody, and you end up not getting to enjoy it like everyone else.” —George Clooney.
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Kuldip Nayar: Part of the furniture
“Over the years I have felt that both the IAS and IPS have developed a kind of feudal class consciousness that does not go well with the service to the people that India needs. Their initial idealism begins to diminish within a few years of service and they gradually become part of the furniture.” —Kuldip…
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Dakota Johnson: No shame
“I don’t have any problem doing anything. The secret is I have no shame.” —Dakota Johnson.
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Simon Sinek: Figment of your imagination
“Your vision is only actionable if you say it out loud. If you keep it to yourself, it will remain a figment of your imagination.” —Simon Sinek.
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Jean Michel Jarre: Never a stereotype
“A chic type, a rough type, an odd type – but never a stereotype.” —Jean Michel Jarre.
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John Stuart Mill: Weak consciences
“It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.” —John Stuart Mill, philosopher and political economist.
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G K Chesterton: Great tragedy of our time
“It has been the great tragedy of our time that people were taught to read and not taught to reason.” —G K Chesterton.
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Harold Pinter: Truth of a moment
“Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.” —Harold Pinter, dramatist and director.
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Mary McAleese: Sound economic sense
“The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.” —Mary Mcaleese.
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Emma Goldman: Independence of thought
“The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.” —Emma Goldman.
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Richard Wright: Men can starve
“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.” —Richard Wright.
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Charlie Munger: Wilful agnosticism
“We have a willful agnosticism on all kinds of things. And that makes us concentrate on certain other things. This is a very good way to think, if you’re as lazy as we are.” —Charlie Munger.
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Warren Buffett: Currencies
“We don’t understand what currencies are going to do week-to-week or month-to-month or year-to-year. And we always try to figure on what — focus on what’s knowable and what’s important. Now, currency might be important, but we don’t think it’s knowable. Other things are unimportant, but knowable. But what really counts is what’s knowable and…
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Phil Collins: It’ll never happen
“That’s the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it’ll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.” —Phil Collins.
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Hilary Swank: Perfect place to be
“I stopped trying to chase the perfect place to be, and realized the perfect place is with your loved ones and your closest friends, around the dinner table, over a good meal, talking about the past year and the year to come and things that you want to change in your life. You hear their…
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G K Chesterton: Mental breakdown
“I am sure that, in so far as there is any sort of social breakdown, it is not so much a moral breakdown as a mental breakdown.” —G K Chesterton.
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Simon Sinek: Curiosity
“Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there’s room for improvement.” —Simon Sinek.
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Moliere: Learned fool
“A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.” —Moliere, playwright, actor and poet.
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C S Lewis: Tried very hard to be good
“No one knows how bad they are till they have tried very hard to be good.” —C S Lewis.
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Betty White: Don’t try to be young
“Don’t try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won’t live long enough to find out about, but I’m still curious about them. You know people who are already saying, ‘I’m going to be 30 – oh, what am I going to do?’ Well, use…
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G K Chesterton: Truths and allies
“The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.” —G K Chesterton.
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Ariana Grande: Sleeping Beauty
“I like Aurora, ‘Sleeping Beauty,’ because she’s just sleeping and looking pretty and waiting for boys to come kiss her. Sounds like a good life — lots of naps and cute boys fighting dragons to come kiss you.” —Ariana Grande.
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Stefan Karl Stefansson: Dream big
“It’s not until they tell you you’re going to die soon that you realize how short life is. Time is the most valuable thing in life because it never comes back. And whether you spend it in the arms of a loved one or alone in a prison-cell, life is what you make of it.…
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Post Malone: How you feel
“You just got with the flow because life is just all about how you feel.” —Post Malone.
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Charlie Munger: Worse things in life
“Generally, I would say that if you have a lot of lovely wealth in a form that makes you comfortable, and somebody down the street has found a way to make money a lot faster, in a way you don’t understand, you should not be made miserable by that process. There are worse things in…
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Warren Buffett: What the business does
“[Charlie and I] don’t consider ourselves…richer or poorer based on what the stock does. We do feel richer or poorer based on what the business does. So we look at the business as to how much we’re worth. And we do not look at the stock price, because the stock price doesn’t mean a thing…
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Paul Dudley White: Vigorous walk
“A vigorous walk will do more good for an unhappy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.” — Paul Dudley White.
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Sinclair Ferguson: Christ’s past
“The determining factor of my existence is no longer my past. It is Christ’s past.” — Sinclair Ferguson.
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G K Chesterton: Marriage
“Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honor should decline.” —G K Chesterton.
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Hilaire Belloc: Knavish imbecility
“The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine — but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight.” —Hilaire Belloc.
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Colm Feore: Charm
“Charm is an intangible. Chutzpah, charm, charisma, that kind of thing, you cant buy it. You either have it or you don’t.” —Colm Feore.
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Simon Sinek: Accountability
“Accountability is never to a number. Accountability is always to a person.” —Simon Sinek.
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William Hayter Spooner: Weight of rages
“You will find as you grow older that the weight of rages will press harder and harder upon the employer.” — William Hayter Spooner.
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G K Chesterton: Strange fanaticism
“A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Thought that ought to be stopped
“There is a thought that stops thought. That is the only thought that ought to be stopped.” —G K Chesterton.
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Alicia Witt: Don’t ‘normalize’ yourself
‘I have no respect for people who deliberately try to be weird to attract attention, but if that’s who you honestly are, you shouldn’t try to “normalize” yourself.’ —Alicia Witt, actress, singer-songwriter, and pianist (b. 21 Aug 1975).
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Warren Buffett: Understanding
“We will never buy anything we don’t think we understand. And our definition of understanding is thinking that we have a reasonable probability of being able to assess where the business will be in 10 years.” —Warren Buffett.
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Travis Scott: Gotta really touch people
“You’ve gotta really touch people to move them to buy your records.” —Travis Scott.
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Justin Trudeau: Focus on serving
“Who cares about winning? We should focus on serving.” —Justin Trudeau.
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Jennifer Lopez: Just the opposite
“People equate sexy with promiscuous. They think that because I’m shaped this way, I must be scandalous – like running around and bringing men into my hotel room. But it’s just the opposite.” —Jennifer Lopez.
