Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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James A Baldwin: Facing and changing
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” —James A Baldwin.
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Thomas Szasz: Closest thing to a genuine panacea
“The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic — in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea — known to medical science is work.” —Thomas Szasz, author, professor of psychiatry (15 Apr 1920-2012).
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James A Baldwin: Ignorance, allied with power
“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” —James A. Baldwin.
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Carl Sagan: Prescription for disaster
“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in…
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Nikita Kruschev: Politicians
“Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.” —Nikita Kruschev.
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Simon Sinek: Entrepreneurial adventure
“Forgo the entrepreneurial venture for an entrepreneurial adventure. Ventures succeed if we make money. Adventures succeed regardless.” —Simon Sinek.
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Alexandra Adornetto: Imagination
“Imagination makes us aware of limitless possibilities. How many of us haven’t pondered the concept of infinity or imagined the possibility of time travel? In one of her poems, Emily Bronte likens imagination to a constant companion, but I prefer to think of it as a built-in entertainment system.” —Alexandra Cornetto.
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Simon Sinek: Competence and integrity
“Trust has two dimensions: competence and integrity. We can forgive mistakes of competence. Mistakes of integrity are harder to overcome.“ —Simon Sinek.
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Ross Anderson: Facebook and privacy
“Academia has indeed got a lot to say about Facebook and privacy, but maybe not the things that Mr Zuckerberg wants to hear.” — Ross Anderson, a computer scientist at the University of Cambridge, responds to Mark Zuckerberg’s comments last week about needing “to understand whether there was something bad going on” at the academic…
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Erich Fromm: Solidarity
“Solidarity among men has one of its strongest foundations in the experience of sharing one’s own suffering with the suffering of all.” —Erich Fromm, social psychologist.
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Anatole France: Relaxation
“Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.” —Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (16 Apr 1844-1924).
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James A Baldwin: Human attention
“There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.” —James A. Baldwin.
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Simon Sinek: Trust
“Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear.” —Simon Sinek.
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Charlie Chaplin: Ruthless world
“This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.” —Charlie Chaplin.
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Simon Sinek: People are still people
“We can learn about our future from our past because, regardless of technology or the speed of innovation, people are still people.“ —Simon Sinek.
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Benjamin Banneker: Communication and manners
“Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.” —Benjamin Banneker.
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Leonardo da Vinci: Painting
“Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.” —Leonardo da Vinci.
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Simon Sinek: Opportunity
“Opportunity is the discovery of a new route to a known destination.“ —Simon Sinek.
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Warren Buffett: Selling
“I think the most successful investors, if they sell at all, will be selling things that end up going a lot higher — because it means they’ve been buying into good businesses as they’ve gone along.” —Warren Buffett.
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Dr. B R Ambedkar: Development of self
“Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man’s life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.” —Dr. B R Ambedkar.
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Simon Sinek: Losing versus failing
“There is a difference between losing and failing. Losing reflects the score. Failing reflects our attitude.“ —Simon Sinek.
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Margaret Atwood: Ignoring
“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance; you have to work at it.” —Margaret Atwood, writer.
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Christopher Hitchens: Undesirable qualities
“Gullibility and credulity are considered undesirable qualities in every department of human life — except religion.” —Christopher Hitchens, author and journalist (13 Apr 1949-2011).
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Warren Buffett: Ideal purchase
“Incidentally, the ideal purchase is something you like already when it’s selling at a price that makes you want to go out and buy more. And we probably should have done more of that in the past…. That’s one of the beauties of marketable securities. When you’re in a wonderful business, you do get a…
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Simon Sinek: Mature companies
“Mature companies fail because they forget WHY they were born.” —Simon Sinek.
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Thomas Jefferson: Style and principle
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” —Thomas Jefferson.
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Joshua Reynolds: Invention
“Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing.” —Joshua Reynolds, artist.
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Henry Clay: Religions and governments
“All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.” —Henry Clay, statesman and orator (12 Apr 1777-1852).
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Warren Buffett: Scuttlebutt approach
‘You don’t want to be chasing down every idea. Therefore, you should have a strong presumption. You should be like a basketball coach who runs into a 7-footer on the street. You’re interested to start with. Now you’ve got to find out if you can keep him in school, if he’s coordinated and all of…
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Simon Sinek: The confident and the insecure
“The confident ask questions to learn what will connect. The insecure just keep talking with the hope that something will stick.” —Simon Sinek.
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Andy Garcia: Not private work
“The reality is that the work I do is not private work. I bring all my secrets, my life, to my work. Anybody who’s seen my work knows everything about me.” —Andy Garcia.
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Leo Tolstoy: Patience and time
“There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time. They will do it all.” —Leo Tolstoy, writer.
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Leo Rosten: Conservative
“A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they’re dead.” —Leo Rosten, author (11 Apr 1908-1997) .
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Nassim Taleb: Skin in the game
“Now skin in the game brings simplicity—the disarming simplicity of things properly done. People who see complicated solutions do not have an incentive to implement simplified ones. As we saw, a bureaucratized system will increase in complication from the interventionism of people who sell complicated solutions because that’s what their position and training invite them…
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Vincent Gallo: Stay away from starches
“I don’t drink any coffee or take any drugs and I don’t smoke cigarettes and I don’t eat sugar and I don’t take any medicine at all. I eat a lot of fish, vegetables, and I stay away from starches.” —Vincent Gallo.
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Simon Sinek: Stories
“Stories are attempts to share our values and beliefs. Storytelling is worthwhile when it shares what we stand for, not what we do.” —Simon Sinek.
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Jay Clayton: Security
“If I have a laundry token for washing my clothes, that’s not a security. But if I have a set of 10 laundry tokens, and the laundromats are to be developed, and (the tokens) are offered to me as something I can use in the future, and I’m buying them because I can sell them…
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Joan Didion: Character
“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.” Joan Didion, writer.
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Anne Lamont: In your own image
“You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” —Anne Lamott, writer (b. 10 Apr 1954).
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Peter Kaufman: Afraid of appearing foolish
“Lou Brock set the Major League record for stolen bases with the St. Louis Cardinals many years ago. And he once said, ‘Show me a man who’s afraid of appearing foolish and I’ll show you a man you can beat every time.’ And if you’re getting beat in life, chances are it’s because you’re afraid…
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Charlie Munger: Management bloopers
“One way to determine which is the good business and which is the bad one is to see which one is throwing management bloopers – pleasant, no-brainer decisions – time after time after time.” –Charlie Munger.
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Steven Seagal: 1000 interviews
“You do 1,000 interviews, 20 percent of every one is not what you said, or is twisted a little. If you multiply 20 by 1,000 you’ve got a lot of inaccuracies out there.” —Steven Seagal.
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Simon Sinek: Confidence and courage
“So much of starting a business or affecting change is the confidence and courage to simply try.” —Simon Sinek.
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Tom Lehrer: Bad weather
“Bad weather always looks worse through a window.” —Tom Lehrer, singer-songwriter and mathematician (b. 9 Apr 1928).
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Simon Sinek: Intelligence versus creativity
“Intelligence looks for what is known to solve problems. Creativity looks for what is unknown to discover possibilities.” —Simon Sinek.
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Kristen Stewart: Writing
“I do want to work on writing, because writing’s a skill. Writing is something that you can train yourself to know better. To know yourself better. And it’s intimidating as hell.” —Kristen Stewart.
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Bill Gates: Fanatics
“I think the world’s best companies are built by fanatics. [That means that you] work day and night. Sort of don’t worry about the possibility of failure. Every setback is just something to work a little bit harder at doing. And you really know what you’re trying to achieve…. And you’re going to change your…
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Kofi Annan: Wonderful advantage
“The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.” —Kofi Annan.
