Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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R C Sproul: Never more tender than this
“Grace was never more tender than this—God incarnate taking a blind man by the hand and leading him to a private place for healing. ” — R. C. Sproul.
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C S Lewis: ‘I have chosen you for one another’
‘Christ, who said to the disciples, “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,” can truly say to every group of Christian friends, “You have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.”‘ —C S Lewis.
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G K Chesterton: Valuable in himself
“Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken. But the chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God, and even to suggest ideas to a French dramatist. Being…
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Li Lu: Intellectual honesty
“First, define your own circle of competence with intellectual honesty. You have to know what you don’t know to determine what you know. Second, have the highest degree of fiduciary duty and imagine that every dollar you take from a client is coming from your own middle-class parents who are entrusting their life savings to…
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C S Lewis: Most emphatically belongs to God
“He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.” —C S Lewis, The Weight of Glory.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger: Jealousy
“You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.” —Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Marguerite Yourcenar: True birth of a man
“Nothing is slower than the true birth of a man.” —Marguerite Yourcenar.
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Dag Hammarskjold: If only I may grow
“If only I may grow: firmer, simpler — quieter, warmer.” —Dag Hammarskjold, Secretary General of the United Nations, Nobel laureate (29 Jul 1905-1961).
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Andrew Carnegie: Mediocrity
“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.” — Andrew Carnegie.
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Bill Walsh: One enemy
“One enemy does more damage than the good of 100 friends. Enemies consume time, energy, and attention …”–NFL coach Bill Walsh, from book The Score Takes Care of Itself.
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C S Lewis: Kind of philosophy
“What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.” —C S Lewis.
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Lewis Carroll: Yesterday
“I can’t go back to yesterday — because I was a different person then.” —Lewis Carroll.
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Christy Huggins: Inauthentic
“Trying to create an entirely new personality on social media can seem forced and inauthentic.” —Christy Huggins, Eventbrite.
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Richard D Rosen: It isn’t sufficient
“It isn’t sufficient just to want — you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.” —Richard D. Rosen.
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Allison Mack: No hiding in theater
“There’s a relationship in the reality with how theater is presented — you can’t experience that anywhere else. When you mess up, you mess up obviously, when you sweat, you sweat obviously, when you cry, you cry obviously. There’s no hiding in theater.” —Allison Mack.
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Katherine Mansfield: Face the truth
“Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.” —Katherine Mansfield, writer.
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C S Lewis: Hell and Heaven
“If we insist on keeping Hell (or even earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.” —C S Lewis.
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Meredith West: Be outstanding
“If you want to stand out, don’t be different, be outstanding.” —Meredith West.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Only effective apology
“The only effective apology is the one you voice before you say or do something.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Marcus Aurelius: How many
“Don’t let yourself forget how many doctors have died, furrowing their brows over how many deathbeds. How many astrologers, after pompous forecasts about others’ ends. How many philosophers, after endless disquisitions on death and immortality. How many warriors, after inflicting thousands of casualties themselves. How many tyrants, after abusing the power of life and death…
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Marcus Aurelius: Own soul’s doing
“If you won’t keep track of what your own soul’s doing, how can you not be unhappy?” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Charlie Munger: Future opportunity cost
“Everything we do comes back to opportunity cost. But it, to some extent — in fact, to some considerable extent — we are guessing at our future opportunity cost. Warren is basically saying that he’s guessing that he’ll have opportunities in due course to put out money at pretty attractive rates of return, and therefore,…
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C S Lewis: When pain is to be borne
“When pain is to be borne, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.” —C S Lewis.
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Simon Sinek: More work
“If we push people away because of work, then when we’re finally free, there will be no friends left … just plenty of time for more work.” —Simon Sinek.
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Norman Ralph Augustine: Motivation
“Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.” —Norman Ralph Augustine.
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Bertrand Russell: Universal life
“Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.” — Bertrand Russell.
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George Bernard Shaw: Pardon him, Theodotus
“Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.” —-George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (26 Jul 1856-1950).
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C S Lewis: One of the great secrets
“Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.” —C S Lewis.
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Charlie Munger: Game of everlasting learning
“If we’d kept our earlier modes, if we’d never learned, we wouldn’t have done very well. The game of life is a game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win.” —Charlie Munger.
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C S Lewis: Real test
“The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.” —C S Lewis.
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Sandra Bullock: Fame
“Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster.” —Sandra Bullock.
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Simon Sinek: New ideas
“New ideas need audiences like flowers need bees. No matter how bright and colorful, they will die unless others work to spread them.” —Simon Sinek.
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Aldous Huxley: Experience
“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” —Aldous Huxley, writer and philosopher.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld: Quarrels
“Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.” —Francois de La Rochefoucauld, writer.
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Eric Hoffer: Evil government
“The only index by which to judge a government or a way of life is by the quality of the people it acts upon. No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion — it is an evil government.” —Eric…
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Lionel Hampton: Gratitude
“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.” —Lionel Hampton.
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Earl Nightingale: Time will pass anyway
“Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.” — Earl Nightingale.
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Simon Sinek: Manager of metrics
“Every manager of metrics has an opportunity to become a leader of people.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Leading
“Leading is not the same as being a leader. Leading means others are willing to follow, not because they have to, but because they want to.” —Simon Sinek.
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John MacDonald: Up with life
“Up with life. Stamp out all small and large indignities. Leave everyone alone to make it without pressure. Down with hurting. Lower the standard of living. Do without plastics. Smash the servo-mechanisms. Stop grabbing. Snuff the breeze and hug the kids. Love all love. Hate all hate.” —John D. MacDonald, novelist (24 Jul 1916-1986).
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Maya Angelou: Snug as a feather mattress
“Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.” — Maya Angelou.
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Marc Andreesen: Raising prices
“Raising prices is a great way to flesh out whether you actually do have a moat. If you do have a moat, the customers will still buy, because they have to. The definition of a moat is the ability to charge more.” —-Marc Andreessen.
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Alexandre Dumas: Happiness
“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.” —Alexandre Dumas.
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Robert King Merton: Skepticism, a virtue
“Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.” —Robert King Merton, sociologist (4 Jul 1910-2003).
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Haile Selassie: Throughout history
“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph.” —Haile Selassie, regent of Ethiopia (23 Jul 1892-1975).
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C S Lewis: Love themselves as their neighbours
“When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.” —C S Lewis.
