Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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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.
