Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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Virginia Satir: Greatest gift
“I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen, heard, understood, and touched by them. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.” —Virginia Satir, psychotherapist and author (26 Jun 1916-1988).
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C S Lewis: Courage
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.” —C S Lewis.
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Walt Whitman: Providence
“I never would believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.” —Walt Whitman, poet (31 May 1819-1892).
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Simon Sinek: Goal
“The goal is not to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better today.” —Simon Sinek.
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George Orwell: Nationalist
“The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.” —George Orwell, writer (25 Jun 1903-1950).
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Hal Clement: Speculation, superstition and science
“Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you’ve only founded a superstition. If you test it, you’ve started a science.” —Hal Clement, science fiction author (30 May 1922-2003).
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Henry Ward Beecher: Never excuse yourself
“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.” —Henry Ward Beecher.
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James Baldwin: No limitations
“If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.” —James Baldwin.
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C S Lewis: Made for another world
“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” —C S Lewis.
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George Bernard Shaw: Old measurements
“The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.” —George Bernard Shaw.
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Giambattista Vico: Common sense
“Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.” —Giambattista Vico.
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Norman Mailer: Welfare
“To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there’s more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of…
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Being insincere
“The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.” —Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
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C S Lewis: Society of possible gods and goddesses
“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship…You have never talked to a mere mortal.” —C…
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Elisabeth Elliott: Rupture
“The self, small and hard and resisting as a nut, will have to be ruptured. My own purposes and desires and hopes will have to at times be exploded. The rupture of the self is death, but out of death comes life. The acorn must rupture if an oak tree is to grow.” —Elisabeth Elliott.
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Billy Wilder: Critical genius
“An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark – that is critical genius.” —Billy Wilder.
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C S Lewis: Redeemed humanity
“For God is not merely mending, not simply restoring a status quo. Redeemed humanity is to be something more glorious than unfallen humanity.” —C S Lewis.
