Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Julie Nixon Eisenhower: Label
“Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.” —Julie Nixon Eisenhower.
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Lao Tzu: Kindness
“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” — Lao Tzu.
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Simon Sinek: Action creates change
“Words may inspire but only action creates change.” —Simon Sinek.
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C S Lewis: Amphibians
“Humans are amphibians…half spirit and half animal…as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.” —C S Lewis.
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Freeman Dyson: Birds and frogs
“Some mathematicians are birds, others are frogs. Birds fly high in the air and survey broad vistas of mathematics out to the far horizon. They delight in concepts that unify our thinking and bring together diverse problems from different parts of the landscape. Frogs live in the mud below and see only the flowers that…
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Abigail Van Buren: Best index
“The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.” —Abigail Van Buren.
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Federico García Lorca: Not worried
“As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.” —Federico García Lorca, poet, playwright, and painter (5 Jun 1898-1936).
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Mao Tse-Tung: Perseverance
“Any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance.” —Mao Tse-Tung.
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Unknown: In a relationship
“Being in a relationship is not about kissing, dates or showing off. It’s about being with the person who makes you happy.” — Unknown.
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Peter Bevelin: Stay away
“If a catastrophic outcome is possible or you can’t judge the downside, stay away.” —Peter Bevelin.
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Tenneva Jordan: Never did care for pie
“A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, announces she never did care for pie.” —Tenneva Jordan.
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Seth Godin: Success and commitment
“If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either.” —Seth Godin.
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B J Miller: Suffering
“Suffering is nothing but the gap between how I want things to be and how they are.” —B J Miller.
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George Sanders: Big questions
“Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.” —George Sanders.
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Louis L’Amour: Always with you
“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.” ― Louis L’Amour.
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Eckhart Tolle: Conditioning
“Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.” —Eckhart Tolle.
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Dylan Thomas: Very nice fire
“When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.” —Dylan Thomas.
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Seneca: Confident and heedless
“You will fall upon me confident and heedless. It is true you struck someone else, but you aimed at me.”
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Simon Sinek: Life is beautiful
“Life is beautiful not because of the things we see or do. Life is beautiful because of the people we meet.” —Simon Sinek.
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C S Lewis: Stamp of the Saint
“The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.” —C S Lewis.
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Thurgood Marshall: Measure of country’s greatness
“The measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis.” —Thurgood Marshall, US Supreme Court Justice (2 Jul 1908-1993).
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C S Lewis: Christ-life inside him
“A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble—because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time.” —C S Lewis.
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Marcus Aurelius: Practice
“Practice even what seems impossible. The left hand is useless at almost everything, for lack of practice. But it guides the reins better than the right. From practice.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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James M Cain: Love and hate
“Love, when you get fear in it, it’s not love any more. It’s hate.” —James M Cain.
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C S Lewis: Relying on God
“Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.” —C S Lewis.
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Baltasar Gracian: Friendship
“There is no desert like living without friends. Friendship multiplies the good and divides the evil.” —Baltasar Gracian.
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Charlie Munger: Deserve what you want
“The best way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.” —Charlie Munger.
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Allegra Versace: Woman with confidence
“A lot of people would say ‘sexy’ is about the body. But to me, ‘sexy’ is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear.” —Allegra Versace.
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Mahatma Gandhi: Believe
“Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.” — Mahatma Gandhi.
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Mitch Albom: Endings and beginnings
“All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.” —Mitch Albom, journalist and broadcaster.
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C S Lewis: Expectation and memory
“Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory.” —C S Lewis.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Civilization
“A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
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Simon Sinek: Indistinguishable
‘The goal is not simply to “work hard, play hard.” The goal is to make our work and our play indistinguishable.’ —Simon Sinek.
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C S Lewis: Keep back nothing
“Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours…Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.” —C S Lewis.
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Chinua Achebe: Proud heart
“A proud heart can survive general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone.” —Chinua Achebe, writer and professor.
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C S Lewis: Affection
“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.” —C S Lewis.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau: Kindness
“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?” —Jean Jacques Rousseau, philosopher and author (28 Jun 1712-1778).
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Simon Sinek: True value of networking
“The true value of networking doesn’t come from how many people we can meet but rather how many people we can introduce to others.” —Simon Sinek.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Insults
“Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.” —Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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C S Lewis: Desire for my true country
“I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that country and to help others to do the same.” —C…
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George Horace Lorimer: Worrying
“Worrying is the one game in which if you guess right, you don’t get any satisfaction out of your smartness.” —George Horace Lorimer.
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C S Lewis: Strategic point
“The smallest good act today is the strategic point from which, months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.” —C S Lewis.
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Philip Babcock Gove: Inchoate heterogeneous conglomerate
“It may be observed that the English language is not a system of logic, that its vocabulary has not developed in correlation with generations of straight thinkers, that we cannot impose upon it something preconceived as an ideal of scientific method and expect to come out with anything more systematic and more clarifying than what…
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Tony Deden: Like-mindedness
“Earlier, I talked to you about the idea of like-mindedness, for example. And so I’m serious about this in a sense that I want to own a participation—I don’t call it a stock or equity—I want to own a business participation in a business that is run by owners whose motivation is the same as…
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Tony Deden: Idea of exclusion
“The first principle I operate from is the idea of exclusion. I exclude whole swaths of things from my universe of things. I think that, in the whole world, there are probably 150, 200 listed companies that I would even consider owning a piece of. It’s a completely different way of looking at the world….…
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Tony Deden: Rules of the game
“When the rules of the game change, the process with which you make decisions, the process with which you act, the value of information, the value of inputs, must change with it.” —Tony Deden.
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Isabelle Adjani: Success
“One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time.” —Isabelle Adjani.
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Indira Gandhi: Learn to be still
“You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.” —Indira Gandhi.
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Simon Sinek: Emotions
“Emotions are like vomit. You can only hold it in for so long before it all just comes out … and by that time it’s pretty messy.” —Simon Sinek.
