Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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G K Chesterton: Freedom and Fashion
“Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Anarchy
“I have no use for anarchy. Anarchy seems to me the end of all democracy; and, what is even worse, the beginning of all aristocracy.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Petticoat government
“… when men wish to be safely impressive, as judges, priests or kings, they do wear skirts, the long, trailing robes of female dignity The whole world is under petticoat government; for even men wear petticoats when they wish to govern.” G K Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World.
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G K Chesterton: Most terrible quality in women
“Most men if they spoke with any sincerity would agree that the most terrible quality in women, whether in friendship, courtship or marriage, was not so much being emotional as being unemotional.” G K Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World.
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Steven Pressfield: True philosophy
“This world is the only one that exists. Learn its laws and obey them. This is true philosophy.” —Steven Pressfield.
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C S Lewis: Be not deceived
“Be not deceived, Wormwood, our cause is never more in jeopardy than when a human, no longer desiring but still intending to do our Enemy’s will, looks round upon a universe in which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.” —C S Lewis.
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G K Chesterton: Fierceness of domesticity
“Modern women defend their office with all the fierceness of domesticity. They fight for desk and typewriter as for hearth and home, and develop a sort of wolfish wifehood on behalf of the invisible head of the firm. That is why they do office work so well; and that is why they ought not to…
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Srinivas Vadlamani: Unsustainable
“The sheer volume and varieties of today’s big data lends itself to a machine learning-based approach, which reduces a growing burden on IT teams that will soon become unsustainable.” —Srinivas Vadlamani, chief architect, Imanis Data.
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Seneca: More human
“We should take a lighter view of things and bear them with an easy spirit for it is more human to laugh at life than to lament it.” —Seneca.
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G K Chesterton: Flung naked into the fight
‘A man must be partly a one-idead man, because he is a one-weaponed man—and he is flung naked into the fight. The world’s demand comes to him direct; to his wife indirectly. In short, he must (as the books on Success say) give “his best”; and what a small part of a man “his best”…
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P D James: Prepared to make fools of themselves
“The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.” —P.D. James, novelist (3 Aug 1920-2014).
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G K Chesterton: Universalists and specialists
“What makes it difficult for the average man to be a universalist is that the average man has to be a specialist; he has not only to learn one trade, but to learn it so well as to uphold him in a more or less ruthless society. This is generally true of males from the…
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Uncle Bob: Simplicity
“It is not the language that makes programs appear simple. It is the programmer that make the language appear simple!” – Uncle Bob.
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Thomas Merton: Rocks the boat
“A person rocks the boat not by telling slaves to be free, but by telling people who think they’re free that they’re slaves.” —Thomas Merton.
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C S Lewis: Forgiveness
“There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy…For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.” —C S Lewis.
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Rupert Brooke: Books and neighbours
“A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long, if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.” —Rupert Brooke.
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Simon Sinek: Defend, not attack
“Let us not attack those who disagree. Let us defend those who follow.” —Simon Sinek.
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Eckhart Tolle: Find the goodness
“You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge.” —Eckhart Tolle.
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Henry David Thoreau: Richest
“That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.” —Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (12 Jul 1817-1862).
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G K Chesterton: Discipline
“Discipline does not involve the Carlylean notion that somebody is always right when everybody is wrong, and that we must discover and crown that somebody. On the contrary, discipline means that in certain frightfully rapid circumstances, one can trust anybody so long as he is not everybody. The military spirit does not mean (as Carlyle…
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John Milton: Not freedom, but license
“None can love freedom heartily, but good men: the rest love not freedom, but license.” —John Milton,writer.
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James Baldwin: Forced to deal with pain
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” —James Baldwin, writer (2 Aug 1924-1987).
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G K Chesterton: Mother-in-law
‘… the jokes about a mother-in-law are scarcely delicate, but the problem of a mother-in-law is extremely delicate. A mother-in-law is subtle because she is a thing like the twilight. She is a mystical blend of two inconsistent things—law and a mother. The caricatures misrepresent her; but they arise out of a real human enigma…..…
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Simon Sinek: To be authentic
“To be authentic is to be at peace with your imperfections.” —Simon Sinek.
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Myrna Loy: Breach of taste
“I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.” —Myrna Loy.
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Herman Melville: Preposterous assumptions
“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.” —Herman Melville, novelist and poet (1 Aug 1819-1891).
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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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G K Chesterton: Real vision and magnet of mankind
“The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man one house—this remains the real vision and magnet of mankind. The world may accept something more official and general, less human and intimate. But the world will be like a…
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Kathy Sullivan: Start of a good idea
“The only thing any of us can do completely on our own is to have the start of a good idea.” —Kathy Sullivan (quoting a line that she heard once that resonated with her, as told in The Coming Storm). Source: Value Investing World newsletter.
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Simon Sinek: Personal growth
“The ultimate value of personal growth work is not to feel better about ourselves but to contribute to how those around us feel about themselves.” —Simon Sinek.
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Dale Carnegie: More friends in two months
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” —Dale Carnegie.
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C S Lewis: Judging
“That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man’s choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it.” —C S Lewis.
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Jed S Rakoff: Individual responsibility
“In baseball you have individual responsibility, and if you fail it, you get an error. But at the same time, your focus is on the common goal of the team to win. This is part of what resonates with people about baseball. This is how they would like society to work.” —Jed S Rakoff.
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E B White: Corporate Earth
“I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.” —E.B. White, writer (11 Jul 1899-1985).
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G K Chesterton: Extraordinary spectacle
“… in the modern world we are primarily confronted with the extraordinary spectacle of people turning to new ideals because they have not tried the old. Men have not got tired of Christianity; they have never found enough Christianity to get tired of. Men have never wearied of political justice; they have wearied of waiting…
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Shane Parrish: Anger and frustration
“When someone responds to your questions with anger and frustration, it’s unlikely they’re a genius. More than likely, they don’t know what they are doing and are frustrated with you because deep down you’re exposing them to the lies they tell themselves.” —Shane Parrish.
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G K Chesterton: Ideal
“There is only one really startling thing to be done with the ideal, and that is to do it. It is to face the flaming logical fact, and its frightful consequences. Christ knew that it would be a more stunning thunderbolt to fulfil the law than to destroy it. ” —G K Chesterton, What’s Wrong…
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Warren Buffett: Past and future
“You don’t get paid for what’s already happened. You only get paid for what’s going to happen in the future. The past is only useful to you in the extent to which it gives you insights into the future, and sometimes the past doesn’t give you any insights into the future. ” —Warren Buffett.
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Simon Sinek: Courage to ask for help
“To overcome our challenges, all that is required is the courage to ask for help.” —Simon Sinek.
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Raymond Aubrac: Learn poetry by heart
“Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage of it anytime.” —Raymond Aubrac.
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James E Faust: Grateful heart
“A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.” —James E Faust.
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G K Chesterton: Something more pathetic
“I agree there is something more pathetic than the physical condition of the poor; and that is the mental condition of those who deny it.” —G K Chesterton.
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Annie Parisse: Ostensibly normal
“You’d just be amazed what people will do. You really would. And not crazy people. Ostensibly normal people. When the right person touches the right button in someone, you can get them to do almost anything.” —Annie Parisse.
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Simon Sinek: Great leaders
“Great leaders don’t blame the tools they are given. Great leaders work to sharpen them.” —Simon Sinek.
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G K Chesterton: Afraid to look back
“The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past. It is propelled towards the coming time; it is, in the exact words of the popular phrase, knocked into the middle of next week. And the goad which drives it on…
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Fred Allen: Conference
“A conference is gathering of important people who singly can do nothing but together decide nothing can be done.” —Fred Allen.
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Simon Sinek: Open and closed
“When we are closed to ideas, what we hear is criticism. When we are open to criticism, what we get is advice.” —Simon Sinek.
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G K Chesterton: Compromise
“Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.” —G K Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World.
