Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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W H Auden: Discipline passion, discipline time
“A modern stoic knows that the surest way to discipline passion is to discipline time: decide what you want or ought to do during the day, then always do it at exactly the same moment every day, and passion will give you no trouble.” —W H Auden.
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Francoise Sagan: Writing
“I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.” —Francoise Sagan, playwright and novelist (21 Jun 1935-2004).
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Charlie Munger: Best business getter
“When I was a lawyer, I used to say, ‘The best business getter any lawyer has is the work that’s already on his desk.’…it’s a very old-fashioned idea. You just do well with what you already have and more of the same comes in.” —-Charlie Munger.
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Esther Perel: Self-esteem
“Self-esteem is the ability to see yourself as a flawed individual and still hold yourself in high regard.” —Esther Perel.
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Juliette Lewis: Fame
“Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can’t just say, ‘hi’. You say hi and people whisper’ man did you see the way she said hi? What an attitude.” —Juliette Lewis.
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Lloyd Alexander: Story
“Story, finally, is humanity’s autobiography.” —Lloyd Alexander, novelist (30 Jan 1924-2007).
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David Oglivy: Throw away the pawns
“In your day-to-day negotiations with clients and colleagues fight for the kings and queens and bishops but throw away the pawns. A habit of graceful surrender on trivial issues will make you difficult to resist on those rare occasions when you must stand and fight on a major issue.” —David Ogilvy.
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G K Chesterton: Only in the air
“It is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists. It is no answer to say, with a distant optimism, that the scheme is only in the air.” —G K Chesterton.
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Erich Fromm: Love
“Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.” — Erich Fromm.
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C S Lewis: Miracles
“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.” —C S Lewis.
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Seneca: How you bear it
“It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it.” —Seneca (“Of Providence”).
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Simon Sinek: Innovation
“Innovation is not born from the dream. Innovation is born from the struggle.” —Simon Sinek.
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Hubert Horatio Humphrey: Moral test of government
“The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life — the sick, the needy and the handicapped.” —Hubert Horatio Humphrey, US Vice President (27 May…
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C S Lewis: Afflictions
“Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith. I don’t agree at all. They are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ.” —C S Lewis.
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Simon Sinek: Infallible
“Work hard to seem infallible and others will work to find our flaws. Admit our shortcomings and others will work to help us be infallible.” —Simon Sinek.
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Blaise Pascal: Four friends
“If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.” —Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (19 Jun 1623-1662).
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Blaise Pascal: Mediocrity
“Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.” —Blaise Pascal.
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Jonathan Swift: Vein of gold
“Men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet, perhaps, as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold, which the owner knows not of.” —Jonathan Swift, writer and cleric.
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Roger Ebert: Problem with being sure
“The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can’t change your mind, because God sure isn’t going to change His.” —Roger Ebert, film-critic (18 Jun 1942-2013).
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Paul McCartney: Weird
“I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn’t weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird.” —Paul McCartney.
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Paul McCartney: Buy, buy, why, why
“Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.” —Paul McCartney.
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C S Lewis: Heaven
“Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakable remains.” —C S Lewis.
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C S Lewis: Progress
“Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road.” —C S Lewis.
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Georges St. Pierre: The way you train
“The way you train reflects the way you fight. People say I’m not going to train too hard, I’m going to do this in training, but when it’s time to fight I’m going to step up. There is no step up. You’re just going to do what you did every day.” —Georges St. Pierre.
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C S Lewis: Where we find difficulty
“Where we find difficulty we may always expect that a discovery awaits us.” —C S Lewis.
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Ursula K Le Guin: Journey that matters
“It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” —Ursula K. Le Guin.
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Igor Stravinsky: Constraints
“The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.” —Igor Stravinsky.
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Eve Ensler: Stop fixing your bodies
“Stop fixing your bodies and start fixing the world!” —Eve Ensler, playwright and activist (b. 25 May 1953).
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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.
