Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Nikki Giovanni: Always something to do
“There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don’t expect you to save the world, I do think it’s not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those…
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Natalie Gulbis: When you fail
“When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.” —Natalie Gulbis.
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Richard Flanagan: So alone, so frightened
‘Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.’ —Richard Flanagan.
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Seneca: He who fears death
“He who fears death will never act as becomes a living man: but he who knows that this fate was laid upon him as soon as he was conceived will live according to it, and by this strength of mind will gain this further advantage, that nothing can befall him unexpectedly: for by looking forward…
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Simon Sinek: Prioritize
“Leaders prioritize the well-being of those directly responsible for the company’s success ahead of outsiders who simply profit from it.” —Simon Sinek.
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Fetty Wap: Nothing’s impossible
“Don’t let nobody tell you that you can’t do it. Love what you do until you don’t love it anymore. Nothing’s impossible.” —Fetty Wap.
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Joseph Joubert: Goal
“The goal is not always meant to be reached, but to serve as a mark for our aim.” —Joseph Joubert,essayist.
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Jeff Bezos: Divinely discontent
“One thing I love about customers is that they are divinely discontent. Their expectations are never static—they go up.” —Jeff Bezos.
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Mignon McLaughlin: Kind of love
“The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.” —Mignon McLaughlin, journalist and author (6 Jun 1913-1983).
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Charlie Munger: Opportunity cost
“One filter that’s useful in investing is the simple idea of opportunity cost. If you have one opportunity that you already have available in large quantity, and you like it better than 98 percent of the other things you see, well, you can just screen out the other 98 percent because you already know something…
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Thomas Mann: Time
“Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.” —Thomas Mann.
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Simon Sinek: Profit and trust
“Profit comes as a result of being good at WHAT we do. Trust comes as a result of being good at WHY we do it.” —Simon Sinek.
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Audrey Hepburn: Face your handicaps
“You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps; don’t try to hide them. Instead, develop something else.” —Audrey Hepburn, actress.
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James Stephens: Curiosity
“Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.” —James Stephens, writer.
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Adam Smith: Great stoical maxim
“One individual must never prefer himself so much even to any other individual, as to hurt or injure that other, in order to benefit himself… and who does not inwardly feel the truth of that great stoical maxim, that for one man to deprive another unjustly of any thing, or unjustly to promote his own…
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C S Lewis: Cunning instead of belief
“They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.” —C S Lewis.
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C S Lewis: Clamor of self-will
“When God talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamor of self-will; once they’ve done that, He really gives them back all their personality & boasts (I’m afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever.” —C S Lewis.
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Simon Sinek: Embrace uncertainty
“We crave explanations for most everything, although innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.” —Simon Sinek.
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Mark Wahlberg: Underground
“And I tell you, having girls has made me a much better man. I have friends who are fathers, but they only have boys, and they have the same attitude toward women they always had, you know? And I don’t play that… My girls, you mess with them? I will bury you underground.” —Mark Wahlberg.
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Robert Fulghum: Inconvenient and lumpy
“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of…
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Shane Parrish: Optimizing
“Optimizing for nothing ensures mediocrity. Optimizing for one variable means you better know what really matters because you move away from mediocrity and toward success or failure.” —Shane Parrish.
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Bruce Lee: Adapt, reject and add
“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.” —Bruce Lee.
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C S Lewis: Christianity and atheism
“If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake.” —C S Lewis.
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Simon Sinek: Changes
“People are afraid of big changes, but usually embrace little changes. The best thing about little changes is they add up to one big one.” —Simon Sinek.
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Socrates: False words
“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.” —Socrates.
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Charles Swindoll: Thoughts of excellence
“The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence.” —Charles Swindoll, pastor.
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C S Lewis: Capacity to receive
“You must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give.” —C S Lewis.
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Jefferson Davis: Haughty and humble
“Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty.” —Jefferson Davis.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: To have succeded
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of the intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the beauty in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden…
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Warren Buffett: Stock market there to serve you
“We tend to go into businesses that inherently are low-risk, and are capitalized in a way that that low risk of the business is transformed into a low risk to the enterprise. The risk beyond that is that even though you…identify such businesses, that you pay too much for them. That risk is usually a…
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Marquis de Sade: Dead rather than unfaithful
“No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.” —Marquis de Sade.
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David Hume: Strongest sentiments of religion
“Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the most opposite to the plan of a wise superintendent, impress mankind with the strongest sentiments of religion.” —David Hume, philosopher, economist, and historian (7 May 1711-1776) .
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Nikolas Tesla: Inseparable
“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.” —Nikola Tesla, inventor, engineer and physicist.
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Marcus Aurelius: Closer to strength
“Keep this thought handy when you feel a fit of rage coming on—it isn’t manly to be enraged. Rather, gentleness and civility are more human, and therefore manlier. A real man doesn’t give way to anger and discontent, and such a person has strength, courage, and endurance—unlike the angry and complaining. The nearer a man…
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Marcus Aurelius: Intense anger
“Constantly down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most hated, the most whatever. And ask: Where is all that now? Smoke, dust, legend…or not even legend.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Warren Buffett: Habits
“I think that people underestimate—until they get older—they underestimate just how important habits are, and how difficult they are to change when you’re 45 or 50, and how important it is that you form the right ones when you’re young.” —Warren Buffett.
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Marilyn Monroe: Better to be unhappy alone
“It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.” —Marilyn Monroe.
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Madeleine L’Engle: Hung up on finding answers
“I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers.” —Madeleine L’Engle, novelist.
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Charlie Munger: Very best models
“There is no reason, also, to look only for living models. The eminent dead are…some of the best models around. And, if…a model is all you want, you’re really better off not limiting yourself to the living. Some of the very best models…have been dead for a long time.” —Charlie Munger.
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Warren Buffett: Admire yourself
“Nothing could be more simple than to try and figure out what you find admirable and then decide…that the person you really would like to admire is yourself. And the only way you’re going to do it is take on the qualities of other people you admire.” —-Warren Buffett.
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Simon Sinek: Obstacles versus solutions
“When we point to obstacles, we inhibit progress. When we offer solutions, we advance it.” —Simon Sinek.
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Clint Eastwood: Reckless and conservative
“When you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.” —Clint Eastwood.
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Lauren Fleshman: Space
“I’m not happy unless there’s space in my life to dream.” –– Lauren Fleshman.
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Silence of solitude
“In the silence of solitude, all are children, all are vulnerable, all are prisoners to their thoughts.” —Linus Fernandes.
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Warren Buffett: Lead-pipe cinches
“There are situations you will see over a long period of time…[where] it would be a mistake—if you’re working with smaller sums—it would be a mistake not to have half your net worth in…. Sometimes in securities, [you] see things that are lead-pipe cinches. And you’re not going to see them often and they’re not…
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Warren Buffett: ‘Too hard’ pile
“A lot of things end up in the ‘too hard’ pile, and it doesn’t bother us…. We don’t have to be able to do everything well.” —Warren Buffett.
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Simon Sinek: Simple ideas
“Simple ideas are easier to understand. Ideas that are easier to understand are repeated. Ideas that are repeated change the world.” —Simon Sinek.
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Agnes Varda: New images
“I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.” —Agnes Varda.
