Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Madeleine L’Engle: Willing to fail
“If we are not willing to fail, we will not accomplish anything.” —Madeleine L’Engle, author.
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Martina Navratilova: On daily journaling
‘It worked because it really centers you. It narrows it down, whatever long-term goal you have. It becomes more real and more current because it narrows it down in that, “What do you need to do today?” and “Did you accomplish that goal?” You have a big goal. You break it into smaller goals, into…
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Simon Sinek: Profit
“Profit isn’t a purpose, it’s a result. To have purpose means the things we do are of real value to others.” —Simon Sinek.
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G K Chesterton: Worth doing badly
“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.” —G K Chesterton.
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Jean Paul Richter: Hourglass of our life
“The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.” —Jean Paul Richter, writer (21 Mar 1763-1825).
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Kylie Minogue: No shortcut
“There’s no shortcut to learning a craft; you just have to put the years in.” —Kylie Minogue.
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Eric Kandel: Learned fear
“In order to produce learned fear, you take a neutral stimulus like a tone, and you pair it with an electrical shock. Tone, shock. Tone, shock. So the animal learns that the tone is bad news. But you can also do the opposite – shock it at other times, but never when the tone comes…
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C S Lewis: Feeling and acting
“The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.” —C S Lewis.
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Lois McMaster Bujold: Learning
“If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works more of the time.” —Lois McMaster Bujold.
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Henry Kissinger: Bleeding will not end
“Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.” —Henry Kissinger.
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Rainer Maria Rilke: Call forth its riches
“If your everyday life seems poor, don’t blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches.” —Rainer Maria Rilke, poet and novelist.
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Philip Roth: While your hand is still warm
“It’s best to give while your hand is still warm.” —Philip Roth, novelist (b. 19 Mar 1933).
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Mike Herrera: When today is in my way
“It breaks my heart it makes me sad to think of all the times we had You made me laugh and you make me cry And all that I can do is sigh, and wonder why How will I get through tomorrow If I can’t make it through today? How will I get through tomorrow…
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Philip Roth: World’s book
“When you publish a book, it’s the world’s book. The world edits it.” —Philip Roth.
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Warren Buffett: Huge difference
“There’s a huge difference in the business that grows and requires a lot of capital to do so, and the business that grows, and doesn’t require capital. And I would say that, generally, financial analysts do not give adequate weight to the difference in those. In fact, it’s amazing how little attention is paid to…
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George Orwell: Politics
“In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.” —George Orwell.
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Gene Fowler: Merely for themselves
“Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.” —Gene Fowler, journalist and author (8 Mar 1890-1960) .
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Rosanne Cash: Most intolerant
“It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.” —Rosanne Cash, singer-songwriter and author (b. 24 May 1955).
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Bob Dylan: Two kinds of people
“Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.” —Bob Dylan.
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Simon Sinek: No such thing
“There is no such thing as winning or losing in a game that has no end. There is only ahead and behind. There is no such thing as winning business, winning global politics or winning life.” —Simon Sinek.
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Luther Burbank: Jungle of weeds
“If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weeds.” —Luther Burbank, horticulturist (7 Mar 1849-1926).
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Anatoly Karpov: Extra points
“Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That sounds very promising and is a fantastic basis for future steps.” —Anatoly Karpov.
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Theodore Roosevelt: Greatness
“We must dare to be great, and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.” —Theodore Roosevelt.
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Simon Sinek: Leadership
“We can rationalize anything and easily quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others.” —Simon Sinek.
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Maya Angelou: Words
“Words are things. Words get in your walls, into your rugs, and finally into you. You must be careful about the words you use.” —Maya Angelou.
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Seneca the Younger: Spurs and curbs
“I shall make whatever befalls me become a good thing, but I prefer that what befalls me should be comfortable and pleasant and unlikely to cause me annoyance: for you need not suppose that any virtue exists without labour, but some virtues need spurs, while others need the curb. As we have to check our…
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Arthur Conan Doyle: Talent and genius
“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.” —Arthur Conan Doyle.
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William Beveridge: Scratch a pessimist
“Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.” —William Beveridge, economist and reformer (5 Mar 1879-1963).
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Mary Robinson: Absolute poverty
‘When I am asked, “What, in your view, is the worst human rights problem in the world today?” I reply: “Absolute poverty.” This is not the answer most journalists expect. It is neither sexy nor legalistic. But it is true.’ —Mary Robinson, 7th President of Ireland (b. 21 May 1944) .
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Kinney & Landecker: Fat pitches
“Ideally, we like to invest in growing companies with a sustainable competitive advantage and attractive economics in combination with a management team that will intelligently redeploy or redistribute excess capital. In a world where it is difficult to find good ideas, our style is to diligently and patiently search the world for fat pitches, and…
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Eric Hoffer: Self-esteem
“There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice humility, is boundless.” —Eric Hoffer, The True Believer.
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Simon Sinek: Fighting
“Fight against something and we focus on the thing we hate. Fight for something and we focus on the thing we love.” —Simon Sinek.
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Plato: Hour of play
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” —Plato.
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George Gamow: Five billion years
“It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!” —George Gamow, physicist and cosmologist (4 Mar 1904-1968).
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Steve Jobs: Design
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” —Steve Jobs.
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William Hazlitt: Test of greatness
“No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.” —William Hazlitt, writer.
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Charlie Munger: Most important question of all
“Why — that’s the most important question of all. And it doesn’t apply just to investment. It applies to the whole human experience. If you want to get smart, the question you’ve got to keep asking is: Why? Why? Why? Why? And you have to relate the answers to a structure of deep theory. And…
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Warren Buffett: Individual businesses
“Charlie and I don’t think about the market. And Ben [Graham] didn’t very much. I think he made a mistake to occasionally try and place a value on it. We look at individual businesses. And we don’t think of stocks as little items that wiggle around on the paper and that have charts attached to…
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Joey Ramone: MTV
“For better or worse, MTV sort of bridges the whole country together almost like the BBC does in England. It’s opened up everything so wide that it’s possible for everyone to have different ideas.” —Joey Ramone.
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Marya Mannes: In reality
“Those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.” —Marya Mannes, writer and critic.
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Randy Pausch: Genuine apology
A genuine apology has three parts: 1. What I did was wrong. 2. I am sorry that I hurt you. 3. How do I make it better? —Professor Randy Pausch.
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Omar Khayyam: Book of verses
“A book of verses underneath the bough, / A jug of wine, a loaf of bread — and thou / Beside me singing in the wilderness — / Oh, wilderness were paradise enow!” —Omar Khayyam, poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, and physician (18 May 1048-1131).
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Phil Knight: Just keep going
“Let everyone else call your idea crazy…just keep going. Whatever comes, just don’t stop…I believe it’s the best advice – maybe the only advice – any of us should ever give.” —Phil Knight.
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Andreas Katsulas: What’s better?
“Well, you know, what’s better? To play a character who stays stuck in the same baggage year after year, or to play a character who gets beyond that and goes to a new level?” —Andreas Katsulas.
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Simon Sinek: Find joy
“The best way to find joy in our lives or overcome struggle is with the help of others.” —Sinon Sinek.
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Andre Gide: Impossible
“There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.” —Andre Gide, author.
