Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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…
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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).
