Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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G K Chesterton: Servile State
‘I do not regard the Servile State marching upon us as “the inevitable outcome of industrial laws.” I regard it as the inevitable outcome of talking tosh about something nice happening somehow some day, while our masters are busily building the walls of the Slave Compound round us.’ —G K Chesterton.
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Leonard Ravenhill: Why?
“Why do we expect to be better treated in this world than Jesus was?” —Leonard Ravenhill.
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John Keats: Passions and self-interests
“The worst of Men are those whose self-interests are their passions. The next those whose passions are their self-interests.” —John Keats.
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Daniel Kahneman: No sunk costs
“When I work I have no sunk costs. I like changing my mind. Some people really don’t like it but for me changing my mind is a thrill. It’s an indication that I’m learning something. So I have no sunk costs in the sense that I can walk away from an idea that I’ve worked…
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Andrew Sullivan: Torture
“The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of anything; it was designed in the darkest days of human history to produce false confessions in order to annihilate political and religious dissidents. And that is how it always works: it…
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G K Chesterton: Make a lot of it
“The way to lessen sorrow is to make a lot of it. The way to endure a painful crisis is to insist very much that it is a crisis; to permit people who must feel sad at least to feel important. ” G K Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World.
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G K Chesterton: First truth
“When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar.” G K Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World.
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Matt Dunsmoor: Leaders and feedback
“Leaders accept feedback. Good leaders welcome feedback. Great leaders demand feedback.” —Matt Dunsmoor.
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John C Maxwell: Attitude
“People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.” —John C. Maxwell.
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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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Issa Rae: Ways
“Stop finding the ways that you can’t do something, and find all the ways that you can.” —Issa Rae.
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Iris Murdoch: Bicycle
“The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.” —Iris Murdoch, writer (15 Jul 1919-1999).
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr: Reputation
“How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!” —Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., physician and writer.
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Jia Tolentino: Banal and profound
“There is no limit to the amount of misfortune a person can take in via the Internet, and there’s no easy way to properly calibrate it—no guidebook for how to expand your heart to accommodate these simultaneous scales of human experience; no way to train your heart to separate the banal from the profound.” —Jia…
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Jia Tolentino: Ability to change things
“Our ability to change things is not increasing at the same rate as our ability to know about them.” —Jia Tolentino.
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Marvin Minsky: Our vast diversity
“What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.” —Marvin Minsky, scientist and author (9 Aug 1927-2016).
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Simon Sinek: Leadership
“Leadership is a service. Service comes with sacrifice. No sacrifice, no service, no leader.” —Simon Sinek.
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John Dryden: Want of inpudence
“Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.” —John Dryden.
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G K Chesterton: Imprudent marriages
“It is obvious that all marriages are imprudent marriages; just as all births are imprudent births. If prudence is your main concern, or if (in other words) you are a coward, it is certainly better not to be married; and even better not to be born.” —G K Chesterton.
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Leonard Ravenhill: Christianity
“The world is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity, it’s waiting for a new demonstration of Christianity.” —Leonard Ravenhill.
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Paulo Coelho: Explanations
“Don’t waste your time with explanations. People only hear what they want to hear.” ––Paulo Coelho.
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Miles Kington: Knowledge and wisdom
“Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.” —Miles Kington, journalist, musician, and humorist (1941-2008).
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C S Lewis: Greatest service to education today
“The greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects, we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.” —C S Lewis.
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Bill James: Shit that you know and don’t
“If you divide the world into shit that you know and shit that you don’t know, and you study the stuff that you know, then you’re not going to learn very much.” — Bill James.
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Drew Lachey: Parenting
“I have this blanket thing about giving parenting advice to parents, and thats: Dont take other peoples advice on parenting.” —Drew Lachey.
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Simon Sinek: Direction
“It’s better to go slowly in the right direction than go speeding off in the wrong direction.” —Simon Sinek.
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Rumi: Not to seek love
“Your task is not to seek love. But merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” —Rumi.
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James Randi: Reason
“Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason.” —James Randi, magician and skeptic (b. 7 Aug 1928).
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Ryan Campbell: Commenting code
“Commenting your code is like cleaning your bathroom – you never want to do it, but it really does create a more pleasant experience for you and your guests.” —Ryan Campbell.
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Simon Sinek: Team
“A team is not a group of people who work togeher. A team is a group of people who trust each other.” —Simon Sinek.
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Satchel Paige: Social ramble ain’t restful
“1) Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood. 2) If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. 3) Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. 4) Go very light on the vices, such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain’t restful. 5) Avoid…
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John Clare: Second edition
“If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.” —John Clare, poet (13 Jul 1793-1864).
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C S Lewis: Spiritual cancer
“Pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.” —C S Lewis.
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Simon Sinek: Focus
“Focus on the vision and the numbers will thrive. Focus on the numbers and the vision will struggle.” —Simon Sinek.
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Piers Anthony: Most clamour
“When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.” —Piers Anthony.
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G K Chesterton: Theologically logical
“Wherever men are still theological there is still some chance of their being logical.” —G K Chesterton.
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Donald Trump: Passion and energy
“Without passion you don’t have energy, without energy you have nothing.” — Donald Trump.
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Frederick Douglass: Struggle and progress
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.” —Frederick Douglass, orator, writer and abolitionist.
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Dr. Seuss: Chore for the reader who reads
“So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.” —Dr. Seuss.
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Niels H Abel: Not a single infinite series
“If you disregard the very simplest cases, there is in all of mathematics not a single infinite series whose sum has been rigorously determined. In other words, the most important parts of mathematics stand without a foundation.” —Niels H Abel.
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Marcus Aurelius: No more arguing
“No more arguing what a good man is like. Be one.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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G K Chesterton: Cold shoulder
“You need not strangle a man if you can silence him. The branded shoulder is less effective and final than the cold shoulder; and you need not trouble to lock a man in when you can lock him out.” —G K Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World.
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G K Chesterton: Scoundrels
“It is not that we have not got enough scoundrels to curse; but that we have not got enough good men to curse them.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Stream
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” —G K Chesterton.
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Warren Buffett: Dangerous higher mathematics
“It’s a terrible mistake to think that mathematics will take you a long place in investing. You have to understand certain aspects of mathematics. But you don’t have to understand higher mathematics. And higher mathematics may actually be dangerous and it will lead you down pathways that are better left untrod.” —Warren Buffett.
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Charlie Munger: Higher mathematics
“Some of the worst business decisions I’ve ever seen are those that are done with a lot of formal projections and discounts back…. The trouble is that you get to believe the figures. And it seems that the higher mathematics, with more false precision, should help you. But it doesn’t. The effects, averaged out, are…
