Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Tom Robbins: No crime so heinous
“If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.” —Tom Robbins, novelist (b. 22 Jul 1936).
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Haile Selassie: Members of a new race
“We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.” —Haile Selassie.
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Anonymous: Apologizing
“Apologizing doesn’t always mean that you’re wrong and the other person is right. It just means that you value your relationship more than your ego.” —Anonymous.
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Anthony D’Angelo: Time to do something about it
“Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have time to do something about it.” —Anthony D’Angelo.
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Martin Luther King Jr: Cup of bitterness and hatred
“Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.” —Martin Luther King Jr.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Very hard work
“Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. Both are very hard work.” —Gabriel García Marquez.
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C S Lewis: Something beyond
“I think all Christians would agree with me if I said that though Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond.” —C S Lewis.
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Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy: Wounds remain
“It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.” —Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.
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Alan Turing: Plenty
“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.” – – -Alan Turing, computer scientist and mathematician.
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Isaac Asimov: Basic trouble
‘The basic trouble, you see, is that people think that “right” and “wrong” are absolute; that everything that isn’t perfectly and completely right is totally and equally wrong.’ — Isaac Asimov.
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Marilyn Monroe: Strong man
“A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.” — Marilyn Monroe.
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Marcus Aurelius: Life is a war and a journey
“Of man’s life, his time is a point, his substance flowing, his perception faint, the constitution of his whole body decaying, his soul a spinning wheel, his fortune hard to predict, and his fame doubtful; that is to say, all the things of the body are a river, the things of the soul dream and…
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Charlie Munger: Stay reliable all your life
“If you make yourself a very reliable person and stay reliable all your life, faithfully doing whatever you engage to do, it will be very hard for you to fail at anything you want.” —Charlie Munger.
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Paul Valery: Something equal
“There is in you, something equal to what is beyond you.” —Paul Valery.
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Matthew Prior: They never taste
“They never taste who always drink, They always talk, who never think.” —Matthew Prior.
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Martin Luther King Jr: Life’s most urgent question
“Life’s most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Earl Deason: Stand criticism
“If you aren’t big enough to stand criticism, you’re too small to be praised.” —Earl Deason.
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Warren Buffett: Best use of cash
“I think the best use of cash, if you don’t have a good use for it in the business, if the stock is underpriced, is to repurchase it. And if it’s overpriced, you got no business buying in a single share. But a lot of companies do it.” —Warren Buffett (2004).
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Warren Buffett: Wisdom
“So, I urge you, if you’re trying to decide on the wisdom of repurchases, or of share issuances, that you don’t think in terms of book value. You don’t think in terms of specific P/Es. You don’t think in terms of any little model. But you think in terms of…. A) pick businesses you can…
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C S Lewis: Each day
“Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.” —C S Lewis.
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Carlos Santana: Only passport
“One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart.” —Carlos Santana.
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Simon Sinek: Making up
“We can make up for lost money, but we can’t make up for lost time.” —Simon Sinek.
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C S Lewis: Some distraction or other
“We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.” —C S Lewis.
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Franz Kafka: Second the world
“In the struggle between yourself and the world, second the world.” —Franz Kafka, novelist (3 Jul 1883-1924).
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Warren Buffett: Realism and discipline
“The most important thing in investments is not having a high IQ, thank God. I mean, the important thing is realism and discipline. And you don’t need to be extraordinarily bright to do well in investments, if you are realistic and disciplined.” —Warren Buffett.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Eliminate all other factors
“Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.” — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in “The Sign of the Four”.
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Simon Sinek: Credit and responsibility
“A leader should not take credit when things go right if they are not willing to accept responsibility when things go wrong.” —Simon Sinek.
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George McGovern: Dreaming up wars
“I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.” —George McGovern.
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Geneen Roth: Not a mistake
“You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won’t discover this until you are willing to stop banging your head against the wall of shaming and caging and fearing yourself.” — Geneen Roth.
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Herm Albright: Positive attitude
“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.” —Herm Albright.
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Andre Gide: Better to be hated
“It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.” —Andre Gide.
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G K Chesterton: Can’t see the problem
“It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It’s that they can’t see the problem.” —G. K. Chesterton.
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko: Silent lie
“When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.” —Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
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Margery Allingham: Telling the truth
“Telling the truth is the basis of all classic art.” —Margery Allingham, writer.
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C S Lewis: Grandeur of Eros
“It is in the grandeur of Eros that the seeds of danger are concealed…For Eros, speaking with that very grandeur and displaying that very transcendence of self, may urge to evil as well as to good…The love which leads to cruel and perjured unions, even to suicide-pacts and murder, is not likely to be wandering…
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Simon Sinek: Failure
“The only ones who fear failure are those who have never tasted it.” —Simon Sinek.
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Molly Parker: Landscape
“The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.” —Molly Parker.
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Douglas Adams: Needed to be
“I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere that I needed to be.” —Douglas Adams, writer.
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Pico Iyer: Loving and thinking
“Those who define themselves by what they love will always stir us more than those who define themselves by what they think.” —Pico Iyer.
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Maya Angelou: Bitterness versus anger
“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.” —Maya Angelou.
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Roald Amundsen: Greatest factor
“I may say that this is the greatest factor: the way in which the expedition is equipped, the way in which every difficulty is foreseen, and precautions taken for meeting or avoiding it. Victory awaits him who has everything in order, luck, people call it. Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to take…
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C S Lewis: Parachute
“We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it’s there for emergencies but he hopes he’ll never have to use it.” —C S Lewis.
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George Eliot: Failure in cleaving
“The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.” —George Eliot, writer and journalist.
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Margaret Bonnano: Day-to-day basis
“It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.” —Margaret Bonnano.
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C S Lewis: Real problem
“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.” —C S Lewis.
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Nancy Sinatra: Little spot
“What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you’re gone, you’re history.” —Nancy Sinatra.
