Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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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.
