Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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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).
