Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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John Milton: Not freedom, but license
“None can love freedom heartily, but good men: the rest love not freedom, but license.” —John Milton,writer.
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James Baldwin: Forced to deal with pain
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” —James Baldwin, writer (2 Aug 1924-1987).
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G K Chesterton: Mother-in-law
‘… the jokes about a mother-in-law are scarcely delicate, but the problem of a mother-in-law is extremely delicate. A mother-in-law is subtle because she is a thing like the twilight. She is a mystical blend of two inconsistent things—law and a mother. The caricatures misrepresent her; but they arise out of a real human enigma…..…
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Simon Sinek: To be authentic
“To be authentic is to be at peace with your imperfections.” —Simon Sinek.
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Myrna Loy: Breach of taste
“I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.” —Myrna Loy.
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Herman Melville: Preposterous assumptions
“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.” —Herman Melville, novelist and poet (1 Aug 1819-1891).
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G K Chesterton: Truth and error
“Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Real vision and magnet of mankind
“The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man one house—this remains the real vision and magnet of mankind. The world may accept something more official and general, less human and intimate. But the world will be like a…
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Kathy Sullivan: Start of a good idea
“The only thing any of us can do completely on our own is to have the start of a good idea.” —Kathy Sullivan (quoting a line that she heard once that resonated with her, as told in The Coming Storm). Source: Value Investing World newsletter.
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Simon Sinek: Personal growth
“The ultimate value of personal growth work is not to feel better about ourselves but to contribute to how those around us feel about themselves.” —Simon Sinek.
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Dale Carnegie: More friends in two months
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” —Dale Carnegie.
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C S Lewis: Judging
“That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man’s choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it.” —C S Lewis.
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Jed S Rakoff: Individual responsibility
“In baseball you have individual responsibility, and if you fail it, you get an error. But at the same time, your focus is on the common goal of the team to win. This is part of what resonates with people about baseball. This is how they would like society to work.” —Jed S Rakoff.
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E B White: Corporate Earth
“I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.” —E.B. White, writer (11 Jul 1899-1985).
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G K Chesterton: Extraordinary spectacle
“… in the modern world we are primarily confronted with the extraordinary spectacle of people turning to new ideals because they have not tried the old. Men have not got tired of Christianity; they have never found enough Christianity to get tired of. Men have never wearied of political justice; they have wearied of waiting…
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Shane Parrish: Anger and frustration
“When someone responds to your questions with anger and frustration, it’s unlikely they’re a genius. More than likely, they don’t know what they are doing and are frustrated with you because deep down you’re exposing them to the lies they tell themselves.” —Shane Parrish.
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G K Chesterton: Ideal
“There is only one really startling thing to be done with the ideal, and that is to do it. It is to face the flaming logical fact, and its frightful consequences. Christ knew that it would be a more stunning thunderbolt to fulfil the law than to destroy it. ” —G K Chesterton, What’s Wrong…
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Warren Buffett: Past and future
“You don’t get paid for what’s already happened. You only get paid for what’s going to happen in the future. The past is only useful to you in the extent to which it gives you insights into the future, and sometimes the past doesn’t give you any insights into the future. ” —Warren Buffett.
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Simon Sinek: Courage to ask for help
“To overcome our challenges, all that is required is the courage to ask for help.” —Simon Sinek.
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Raymond Aubrac: Learn poetry by heart
“Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage of it anytime.” —Raymond Aubrac.
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James E Faust: Grateful heart
“A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.” —James E Faust.
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G K Chesterton: Something more pathetic
“I agree there is something more pathetic than the physical condition of the poor; and that is the mental condition of those who deny it.” —G K Chesterton.
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Annie Parisse: Ostensibly normal
“You’d just be amazed what people will do. You really would. And not crazy people. Ostensibly normal people. When the right person touches the right button in someone, you can get them to do almost anything.” —Annie Parisse.
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Simon Sinek: Great leaders
“Great leaders don’t blame the tools they are given. Great leaders work to sharpen them.” —Simon Sinek.
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G K Chesterton: Afraid to look back
“The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past. It is propelled towards the coming time; it is, in the exact words of the popular phrase, knocked into the middle of next week. And the goad which drives it on…
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Fred Allen: Conference
“A conference is gathering of important people who singly can do nothing but together decide nothing can be done.” —Fred Allen.
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Simon Sinek: Open and closed
“When we are closed to ideas, what we hear is criticism. When we are open to criticism, what we get is advice.” —Simon Sinek.
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G K Chesterton: Compromise
“Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.” —G K Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World.
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R C Sproul: Never more tender than this
“Grace was never more tender than this—God incarnate taking a blind man by the hand and leading him to a private place for healing. ” — R. C. Sproul.
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C S Lewis: ‘I have chosen you for one another’
‘Christ, who said to the disciples, “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,” can truly say to every group of Christian friends, “You have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.”‘ —C S Lewis.
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G K Chesterton: Valuable in himself
“Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken. But the chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God, and even to suggest ideas to a French dramatist. Being…
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Li Lu: Intellectual honesty
“First, define your own circle of competence with intellectual honesty. You have to know what you don’t know to determine what you know. Second, have the highest degree of fiduciary duty and imagine that every dollar you take from a client is coming from your own middle-class parents who are entrusting their life savings to…
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C S Lewis: Most emphatically belongs to God
“He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.” —C S Lewis, The Weight of Glory.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger: Jealousy
“You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.” —Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Marguerite Yourcenar: True birth of a man
“Nothing is slower than the true birth of a man.” —Marguerite Yourcenar.
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Dag Hammarskjold: If only I may grow
“If only I may grow: firmer, simpler — quieter, warmer.” —Dag Hammarskjold, Secretary General of the United Nations, Nobel laureate (29 Jul 1905-1961).
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Andrew Carnegie: Mediocrity
“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.” — Andrew Carnegie.
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Bill Walsh: One enemy
“One enemy does more damage than the good of 100 friends. Enemies consume time, energy, and attention …”–NFL coach Bill Walsh, from book The Score Takes Care of Itself.
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C S Lewis: Kind of philosophy
“What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.” —C S Lewis.
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Lewis Carroll: Yesterday
“I can’t go back to yesterday — because I was a different person then.” —Lewis Carroll.
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Christy Huggins: Inauthentic
“Trying to create an entirely new personality on social media can seem forced and inauthentic.” —Christy Huggins, Eventbrite.
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Richard D Rosen: It isn’t sufficient
“It isn’t sufficient just to want — you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.” —Richard D. Rosen.
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Allison Mack: No hiding in theater
“There’s a relationship in the reality with how theater is presented — you can’t experience that anywhere else. When you mess up, you mess up obviously, when you sweat, you sweat obviously, when you cry, you cry obviously. There’s no hiding in theater.” —Allison Mack.
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Katherine Mansfield: Face the truth
“Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.” —Katherine Mansfield, writer.
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C S Lewis: Hell and Heaven
“If we insist on keeping Hell (or even earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.” —C S Lewis.
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Meredith West: Be outstanding
“If you want to stand out, don’t be different, be outstanding.” —Meredith West.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Only effective apology
“The only effective apology is the one you voice before you say or do something.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
