Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Irvin D Yalom: Death anxiety
“Adults who are racked with death anxiety are not odd birds who have contracted some exotic disease, but men and women whose family and culture have failed to knit the proper protective clothing for them to withstand the icy chill of mortality.” —Irvin D. Yalom, psychiatrist and professor (b. 13 Jun 1931).
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Phil Plait: Let go of ideas that don’t pan out
“You have to let go of ideas that don’t pan out or else you’ll never see the bigger picture. And if you let it go you’ve learned from it, and won’t make that same mistake again.” —Phil Plait.
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Warren Buffett: Persuading
“The history that Charlie and I have had of persuading decent, intelligent people, who we thought were doing unintelligent things, to change their course of action has been poor…. So I would say that if you really think you’re in with people that have got a good business, but they’re going to keep doing dumb…
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Pasquier Quesnel: Zeal
“Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.” —Pasquier Quesnel.
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Georges St. Pierre: Training
“The way you train reflects the way you fight. People say I’m not going to train too hard, I’m going to do this in training, but when it’s time to fight I’m going to step up. There is no step up. You’re just going to do what you did every day.” — Georges St. Pierre.
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Herman Melville: Familiarity with danger
“Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring.” —Herman Melville, writer.
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C S Lewis: More Christians writing good literature
“The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.” —C S Lewis.
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Charlie Munger: Prepared mind
“The game in our kind of life is being able to recognize a good idea when…it rarely is presented to you. And I think that’s something you have to prepare for over a long period. What is the old saying? That opportunity comes to the prepared mind? And I don’t think you can teach people…
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Simone Veil: Culture
“Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.” —Simone Veil.
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Simon Sinek: Products
“Products should be used to reinforce, not define, who a company is.” —Simon Sinek.
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Steve Jobs: Trust in something
“You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference.” —Steve Jobs, entrepreneur.
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C S Lewis: God is going to invade
“God is going to invade but what is the good of saying you are on His side then…There is no use saying you choose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up. That will not be the time for choosing; it will be the time when we discover which side we really…
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Benjamin Graham: Pursue without any reference
“Study the past record of the stock market, study your own capabilities, and find out whether you can identify an approach to investment you feel would be satisfactory in your own case. And if you have done that, pursue that without any reference to what other people do or think or say.” —Benjamin Graham.
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Simon Sinek: Leadership
“Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more.” —Simon Sinek.
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Max Jacob: Friendship
“Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesnt want to kill it.” —Max Jacob.
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Steve Jobs: Smart people
“It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.” — Steve Jobs.
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C S Lewis: First faint gleam of heaven
“If you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him…Not hoping to get to Heaven as a reward for your actions, but inevitably wanting to act in a certain way because a first faint gleam of Heaven is already inside you.” —C S Lewis.
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Warren Buffett: You can’t act every day
“There are no secrets in [the investing] business that only the priesthood knows…. It’s all out there in black and white. It’s a simple business…. It requires qualities of temperament way more than it requires qualities of intellect…You do need a certain temperament that enables you to think for yourself. And then you have to…
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Johann Lamont: Not exam factories
“Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.” —Johann Lamont.
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Robert Frost: Wishbone
“A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.” — Robert Frost.
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Simon Sinek: Three reasons
“The next time someone starts listing all the reasons an idea won’t work or can’t happen, ask them to give three reasons it can.” —Simon Sinek.
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Marcel Proust: With my books
“If I could be sure of doing with my books as much as my [doctor] father did for the sick!” —Marcel Proust, novelist (10 Jul 1871-1922).
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Henry David Thoreau: Pursue some path
“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.” — Henry David Thoreau.
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C S Lewis: Hell and heaven
“Hell is a state of mind — ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind — is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself.” —C S Lewis.
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Nikolas Tesla: Dizzy heights
“With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers, but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood, your step gets firm and sure and you…
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Francis Crick: Dangerous man
“The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he’ll fight and die for it.” —Francis Crick, physicist, biologist, neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (8 Jun 1916-2004).
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Jack Ma: Seeds
“Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world.” —Jack Ma, entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist.
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Oliver Sacks: Memories
“We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust’s jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection.” —Oliver Sacks, neurologist and writer (9 Jul 1933-2015).
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C S Lewis: Another matter entirely
“We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely.” —C S Lewis.
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Jack White: Success
“We weren’t afraid of success, we were afraid of being punished for it.” —Jack White.
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Pamela Adlon: Everybody hates you
“Everybody hates you when youre the best, and everybody hates you when youre the worst.” —Pamela Adlon.
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Carl von Clausewitz: Backbone of surprise
“The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.” —Carl von Clausewitz.
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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: True beauty of their carvings
“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.” —Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, psychiatrist and author (8 Jul 1926-2004).
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C S Lewis: Prosperity
“Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.” —C S Lewis.
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Jean de La Fontaine: Destiny
“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.” —Jean de La Fontaine.
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Bill Clinton: White House
“The White House: I don’t know whether it’s the finest public housing in American or the crown jewel of the prison system.” — Bill Clinton.
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George Lois: Creativity
“Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.” —-George Lois.
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Gustav Mahler: Summit
“When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.” —Gustav Mahler.
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Anna Brackett: Information
“Do not seek for information of which you can make no use.” —Anna Brackett, philosopher.
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Peter Singer: In suffering, equal
“All the arguments to prove man’s superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.” —Peter Singer, philosopher and professor (b. 6 Jul 1946).
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Warren Buffett: Three important aspects
“I don’t look at the primary message…of [Ben] Graham, really, as being…anything to do with formulas. In other words, there’s three important aspects to it…. One is your attitude toward the stock market. That’s covered in chapter eight of The Intelligent Investor. If you’ve got that attitude toward the market, you start ahead of 99…
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Shunryu Suzuki: Enlightened
“I think you’re all enlightened until you open your mouths.” —Shunryu Suzuki.
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Simon Sinek: Perfect company
“The opportunity is not to discover the perfect company for ourselves. The opportunity is to build the perfect company for each other.” —Simon Sinek.
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Sylvester Stallone: Vindictive people
“There’s a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.” —Sylvester Stallone.
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Andre Gite: New lands
“One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.” – – – Andre Gide, writer.
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Bill Watterson: Hard to be religious
“It’s hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.” —Bill Watterson, comic strip artist (b. 5 Jul 1958).
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Georgia O’Keeffe: Absolutely terrified
“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life — and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.” —Georgia O’Keeffe.
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Simon Sinek: Expecting nothing in return
“When we give expecting nothing in return, it is remarkable how much more others will give back to us.” —Simon Sinek.
