Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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C S Lewis: What you see and hear
“What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.” —C S Lewis.
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C S Lewis: Wholly superfluous creatures
“God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love and perfect them.” —C S Lewis.
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Mario Cuomo: News
“If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation—unfairly.” —Mario Cuomo.
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Henry Flagler: My own tyrant
“I trained myself in the school of self-control and self-denial. It was hard on me but I would rather be my own tyrant than have someone else tyrannize me.” —Henry Flagler.
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Nelson Mandela: Unchanged
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.” —Nelson Mandela, activist and political leader.
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Simon Sinek: Integrity
“Integrity is when we say the same things publicly that we say privately.” —Simon Sinek.
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Euripides: Nothing dearer than a daughter
“To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter.” —Euripides, playwright (c. 480-406 BCE).
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C S Lewis: One’s real life
“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s ‘own,’ or ‘real’ life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life — the life God is sending one day by day.” —C S Lewis.
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Margaret Fuller: Knowledge
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.” —Margaret Fuller, author (23 May 1810-1850).
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Charlie Munger: Ideas
“We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side.” — Charlie Munger.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Lapse of monents
“The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.” —Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and novelist (14 Jun 1811-1896).
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Donald Trump: Make work more pleasurable
“If you’re interested in ‘balancing’ work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.” —Donald Trump.
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Thomas Merton: Human race today
“The human race today is like an alcoholic who knows that drink will destroy him and yet always has good reasons why he must continue drinking.” —Thomas Merton.
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Anthony de Mello: Marvelous change
“Observe the marvelous change that comes over you the moment you stop seeing people as good and bad, as saints and sinners and begin to see them as unaware and ignorant.” —Anthony de Mello.
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Warren Bennis: Becoming a leader
“Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.” —Warren Bennis.
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C S Lewis: Boring
“People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.” —C S Lewis.
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Tony Deden: Owners
“There is a substantial distinction between people who are investors and people who are owners of businesses. An owner in a business is far more interested in the survival, the first instance, than its necessary monetary value. No owner of a business wakes up every morning asking himself what he’s worth. He doesn’t know what…
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Warren Buffett: Businesses
“We’re looking at quantitative and quality—we aren’t looking at the aspects of the stock, we’re looking at the aspects of a business. It’s very important to have that mindset, that we are buying businesses, whether we’re buying 100 shares of something or whether we’re buying the entire company. We always think of them as businesses.”…
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Simon Sinek: Responsibility of leadership
“The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas. The responsibility of leadership is to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive.” —Simon Sinek.
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Tim Allen: Choices
“Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we’ve always had: work, or prison.” —Tim Allen.
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Anais Nin: Basis of insincerity
“The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.” —Anais Nin, writer.
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C S Lewis: Sufferings
“We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ‘Blessed are they that mourn,’ and I accept it. I’ve got nothing that I hadn’t bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others.” —C S Lewis.
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Anne Frank: Woman’s duty
“I believe that in the course of the next century the notion that it’s a woman’s duty to have children will change and make way for the respect and admiration of all women, who bear their burdens without complaint or a lot of pompous words!” —Anne Frank, diarist (12 Jun 1929-1945).
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Seneca: Higher view
“We must take a higher view of all things, and bear with them more easily: it better becomes a man to scoff at life than to lament over it. Add to this that he who laughs at the human race deserves better of it than he who mourns for it, for the former leaves it…
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C S Lewis: God and everything else
“He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.” —C S Lewis.
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George Saunders: Anything is possible
“Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.” —George Saunders.
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Simon Sinek: Practice
“Optimists have a habit of seeing positive. Pessimists have a habit of seeing negative. All that is required to change a habit is practice.” —Simon Sinek.
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Uta Hagen: Regular
“We must overcome the notion that we must be regular… it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.” —Uta Hagen.
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Betty Williams: Not for killing
“I like to say that arms are not for killing. They are for hugging.” —Betty Williams, peace activist, Nobel laureate (b. 22 May 1943).
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C S Lewis: Mere milk and water
“The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water.” —C S Lewis.
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David Lloyd George: Eloquence
“The finest eloquence is that which gets things done … the worst is that which delays them.” —David Lloyd George, prime minister.
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Thomas Merton: Prayer
“When you’re making love to a girl you don’t spend your time analyzing the color of her hair.” —Thomas Merton.
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William Styron: Great book
“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.” —William Styron, novelist (11 Jun 1925-2006).
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Simon Sinek: Honest ones
“The best ideas are the honest ones. Ones born out of personal experience. Ones that originated to help a few but ended up helping many.” —Simon Sinek.
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Jacques Cousteau: Own stupidity
“No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.” —Jacques Cousteau.
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Thomas Carlyle: Greatest of faults
“The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.” —Thomas Carlyle, philosopher and historian.
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C S Lewis: Price for free will
“If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will -that is, for making a real world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance can happen…then we may take it it is worth paying.” —C S Lewis.
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Prince Philip: Red carpet
“The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.” —Prince Philip.
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Clifton Fadiman: Re-read a classic
“When you re-read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in yourself than there was before.” —Clifton Fadiman, editor and critic (15 May 1904-1999).
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C S Lewis: Cruel and unjust
“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?” —C S…
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Warren Buffett: Independent of current business outlook
“The decision on the stock market should be made independent of the current business outlook. When you should buy stocks is when you think you’re getting a lot for your money, not necessarily when you think business is going to be good next year.” —-Warren Buffett.
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Winston Churchill: Misfortunes
“Never forget when misfortunes come that it is quite possible they are saving one from something much worse.” —Winston Churchill.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Self-respect
“Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.” —Fyodor Dostoyevsky, writer and philosopher.
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Tim Fargo: Killed, hurt or hated
“Trust gets you killed, love gets you hurt, and being real gets you hated. But without them, you’re already dead.” —Tim Fargo.
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Charlie Munger: Number one idea
“The number one idea is to view a stock as an ownership of the business and to judge the staying quality of the business in terms of its competitive advantage. Look for more value in terms of discounted future cash-flow than you are paying for. Move only when you have an advantage.” —Charlie Munger.
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Simon Sinek: People are still people
“We can learn about our future from our past because, regardless of technology or the speed of innovation, people are still people.” —Simon Sinek.
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Tim Berners-Lee: Control
“The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.” —Tim Berners-Lee.
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C S Lewis: Christianity
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance, the only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” —C S Lewis.
