Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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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.
