Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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John Marsden: Hell of a lot more
“Life’s about a hell of a lot more than being happy. It’s about feeling the full range of stuff: happiness, sadness, anger, grief, love, hate. If you try to shut one of those off, you shut them all off. I don’t want to be happy. I know I won’t live happily ever after. I want…
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C S Lewis: Pretending to be
“All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.” —C S Lewis.
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Michael Shannon: Fundamentally evil place
“It’s obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.” —Michael Shannon.
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Anthony Bourdain: Context and memory
“Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.” —Anthony Bourdain.
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Marilyn Manson: Catalyst
“In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero’s not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He’s one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.” —Marilyn Manson.
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Ben Affleck: Internet magnifies
“There’s a lot of noise in the world, and the Internet magnifies that energy.” —Ben Affleck.
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Simon Sinek: True leaders
“True leaders do not work to do better than anyone else, they work to do better than themselves. And that’s what makes them better leaders.” —Simon Sinek.
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Carrie-Anne Moss: Sunglasses
“After The Matrix, I cannot wear sunglasses. As soon as I put them on, people recognise me.” —Carrie-Anne Moss.
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Edgar Guest: Rather see a sermon
“I’d rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I’d rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.” —Edgar Guest, poet.
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G K Chesterton: Insane mismanagement
“I do believe in Christianity, and my impression is that a system must be divine which has survived so much insane mismanagement.” —G K Chesterton.
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Sigmund Freud: Analogies
“Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.” Sigmund Freud, neurologist and psychoanalyst.
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Alec Baldwin: In a bubble
“I know some people who live this much more insulated life in Los Angeles, where their feet never touch public ground. They walk out of their bathroom, their living room, they get into their garage, their car, and the next thing you know, they’re at the valet parking of the restaurant or the store or…
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Jo Blackwell-Preston: Don’t you dare
“Don’t you dare, for one more second, surround yourself with people who are not aware of the greatness that you are.” — Jo Blackwell-Preston.
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Katy Perry: Own bully
“People talk about bullying, but you can be your own bully in some ways. You can be the person who is standing in the way of your success, and that was the case for me.” —Katy Perry.
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Matthew Perry: Real Prince Charming
“I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I’d get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I’ve since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her.” —Matthew Perry.
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Charles Blackman: No psychological truth, no art
“There is no psychological truth unless it is particular, but on the other hand, there is no art unless it be general. The whole problem is that – how to express the general by the particular, how to make the particular express the general.” —Charles Blackman.
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Billy Connolly: Redundant
“I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.” —Billy Connolly.
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Peter Dutton: Time
“Time doesn’t mean anything when you’re about to have water lapping at your door.” —Peter Dutton.
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Laura Lee: Too old for all that upheaval
“I’ve been in love and it doesn’t last. And when it’s over, it’s hell for a while. And then one discovers that life goes on. Eventually, one falls in love again. This pattern repeats itself until one is too jaded to believe in it anymore, or too old for all the upheaval.” —Laura Lee.
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Winston Churchill: Quarrel between past and present
“If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.” —Winston Churchill.
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Ireland Baldwin: Life’s too short
“Life’s too short not to have fun with what you wear.” —Ireland Baldwin.
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Winona Ryder: Feeling confused
“When you finally accept that it’s OK not to have answers and it’s OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.” —Winona Ryder.
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Simon Sinek: Being comfortable
“Being comfortable with asking for help is important, but it’s more important to be comfortable with accepting help when it is offered.” —Simon Sinek.
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Thomas Merton: Goodness of God
“A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.” — Thomas Merton.
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Bernard Sahlins: Being funny
“Actually being funny is mostly telling the truth about things.” —Bernard Sahlins.
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Nelson Mandela: Returning to a place
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.” —-Nelson Mandela.
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G K Chesterton: Praise
“Praise is obviously the highest function in man, since it is the one function that he can properly employ towards God.” —G K Chesterton.
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Charlie Munger: Ideal for us
“A business with something glorious underneath, disguised by terrible numbers that cause cutoff points in other people’s minds, is ideal for us, if we can figure it out.” —Charlie Munger.
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Kofi Annan: Wonderful advantage
“The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.” —Kofi Annan.
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C S Lewis: Higher tribunal than Him
“I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.” —C S Lewis.
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G K Chesterton: These are the days
“These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.” —G K Chesterton.
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Matthew Perry: Let that be a lesson
“Actually, as a kid I wanted to be a tennis player, but I wasn’t good enough, so I became an actor. Since then, I’ve just been lip-locking with gorgeous babes. So, let that be a lesson to all you little tennis players out there.” —Matthew Perry.
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Albert Einstein: Same way
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.” —Albert Einstein.
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African proverb: Until the lion
“Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter. ” —African proverb.
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Eckhart Tolle: Gratefulness
“Gratefulness for what is there is one of the most powerful tools for creating what is not yet there. What does gratefulness mean? It means you appreciate what is. You value, you give attention to, you honor whatever is here at this moment.” —Eckhart Tolle.
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Major Peter Colquhoun: Unacceptable
“5 Minutes Early Is On Time; On Time Is Late; Late Is Unacceptable. ” — Major Peter Colquhoun, Australian Army.
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Simon Sinek: Title
“Great leaders may have the title. What makes them great, however, is that they don’t wear the title.” —Simon Sinek.
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Nelson Mandela: Sinner who keeps on trying
“I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.” —Nelson Mandela.
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Nelson Mandela: Sinner who keeps on trying
“I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.” —Nelson Mandela.
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Eckhart Tolle: Drama
“When you feel sorry for yourself, that’s drama. When you feel guilty or anxious, that’s drama. When you let the past or future obscure the present, you are creating time, psychological time – the stuff out of which drama is made.” —Eckhart Tolle.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Same plastic surgeon
“If, in some wealthy communities, you run into people who look like cousins, it is more probable that they use the same plastic surgeon.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Patrick Swayze: Honor their spirit
“When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you’re going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life… it’s a positive way to keep…
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Maya Angelou: Reduced by it
“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” —Maya Angelou.
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Davy Crockett: Rather be politically buried
“I have always supported measures and principles and not men. I have acted fearless and independent and I never will regret my course. I would rather be politically buried than to be hypocritically immortalized.” —Davy Crockett, frontiersman, soldier, and politician (17 Aug 1786-1836).
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Charlie Munger: Nature of things
“I think it’s the nature of things that some businesses die. It’s also in the nature of things that, in some cases, you shouldn’t fight it. There is no logical answer, in some cases, except to wring the money out and go elsewhere.” —Charlie Munger.
