Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Simon Sinek: Most stable success of all
“Driving to succeed overnight may look and feel good, but it’s unstable. Setting out to succeed for a lifetime is the most stable success of all.“ —Simon Sinek.
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Anais Nin: Combination of states
“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.” —Anais Nin, writer.
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John Burroughs: No sermons in stones
“Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.” —John Burroughs, naturalist and writer (3 Apr 1837-1921).
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E B White: Hang on
“Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.” —E. B. White.
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Simon Sinek: No work
“Work is expending effort on things we don’t want to do. Passion is expending energy on things we love to do. The goal is to do no work.” —Simon Sinek.
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Alec Baldwin: Pretty good conversationalist
“I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don’t speak the language!” —Alec Baldwin.
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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela: Product
“I am the product of the masses of my country and the product of my enemy.” —Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.
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Emile Zola: Daily deadlines
“One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.” —Emile Zola, writer (2 Apr 1840-1902).
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Henri Matisse: Derive happiness
“Derive happiness in oneself from a good day’s work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.” –-Henri Matisse.
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Simon Sinek: Strength and vulnerability
“Strength comes from knowing we can be vulnerable. Vulnerability comes from thinking we are always strong.” —Simon Sinek.
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Jordan Peterson: Faulty tools, faulty results
“People create their worlds with the tools they have directly at hand. Faulty tools produce faulty results. Repeated use of the same faulty tools produces the same faulty results. It is in this manner that those who fail to learn from the past doom themselves to repeat it. It’s partly fate. It’s partly inability. It’s…
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Emile Zola: Two men inside the artist
“There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.” —Emile Zola.
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Charles Darwin: Confidence
“There are two ways that a human being can feel confidence. One is knowledge, and the other is ignorance.” — Charles Darwin.
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Aja Frost: Successful professionals
“Successful professionals don’t climb the ladder by ignoring everyone who gives them constructive feedback.” —Aja Frost.
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Mark Twain: April 1
“April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.” —Mark Twain.
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Basil Hume: Christian hope
“The great gift of Easter is hope – Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.” —Basil Hume.
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Otto von Bismarck: Laws
“Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.” —Otto von Bismarck.
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Simon Sinek: Imperfections to focus on
“We must find a purpose or cause to pursue otherwise all we have left are our imperfections to focus on.“ —Simon Sinek.
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Soha Ali Khan: Mother’s advice
“My mother always told me never to offend a man’s ego and never hurt a woman’s emotions. An advice I will not forget to pass on to my daughter.” —Soha Ali Khan.
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Pope Benedict XVI: Holy Saturday
“To be sure, it was not Easter Sunday but Holy Saturday, but, the more I reflect on it, the more this seems to be fitting for the nature of our human life: we are still awaiting Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it full of trust.” ― Pope…
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Christopher Walken: Public image
“You know, there’s nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do things honestly. I guess honesty is what you would call subjective: if you feel good about what you’re doing, yourself, if you figure you’re doing the right thing. ” —Christopher Walken.
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Simon Sinek: Better story to tell later
“Appreciate when things go awry. It makes for a better story to tell later.” —Simon Sinek.
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Clarence Darrow: No man objected, no man rebelled
“As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.” —Clarence Darrow, lawyer.
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Anna Sewell: Dumb animals
“We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.” —Anna Sewell, writer (30 Mar 1820-1878).
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Charlie Munger: Unlearning
“It isn’t the learning that’s so hard, but the unlearning.” —Charlie Munger.
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Esther Perel: Quality of our lives
“The quality of our relationships is what determines the quality of our lives.” -–Esther Perel.
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Katherine J W: Between
‘We focus on Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday, but we forget to pause in the stillness of the days between. Find time today to be present in that place of waiting. There is treasure to be found in the sacred peace that comes as you breathe in that place of quiet surrender. Don’t rush through…
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Vincent Van Gogh: Paint
“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” —Vincent Van Gogh.
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Simon Sinek: Leader’s vision
“Leaders may inspire, but only when the people choose to act does the leader’s vision become a movement.” —Simon Sinek.
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Warren Buffett: Change
“We generally look at businesses and believe that change is likely to work against us. We do not think we have great ability to predict where change is going to lead. We think we have some ability to find businesses where we don’t think change is going to be very important.” —Warren Buffett (1996 Berkshire…
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Simon Sinek: Pursue
“Pursue the thing inside us and others will help us. Pursue the things outside us and others will compete with us.” —Simon Sinek.
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Robert Frost: Sweetest dream
“The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.” —Robert Frost, poet.
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John Cage: New ideas
“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.” —John Cage, composer.
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Daniel Dennett: Scholar
“A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library.” —Daniel Dennett, philosopher, writer, and professor (b. 28 Mar 1942) .
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Stephen Colbert: Agnostic versus atheist
“Isn’t an agnostic just an atheist without balls?” —Stephen Colbert.
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Warren Buffett: Patsy
“If you buy a stock and it goes down and that upsets you, it obviously means you think the market knows more about the company than you do. In that case you’re the patsy. If you want to buy more because you know the business is worth just as much as when you bought it,…
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Malcolm Gladwell: Practice
“Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. Practice is the thing you do that makes you good.” —Malcolm Gladwell.
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Sara Gilbert: Smart enough and stupid enough
“You’ve got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough to not think about all the things that might go wrong.” —Sara Gilbert.
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Brooke Shields: Honesty with conpassion
“Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.” —Brooke Shields.
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John Paul Stephens: Complete neutrality
“The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.” —John Paul Stevens.
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Lady Gaga: Bullying
“I’ve been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don’t have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.” —Lady Gaga.
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Edith Wharton: Little healing in its touch
“As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.” —-Edith Wharton, novelist (24 Jan 1862-1937) .
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Sean Penn: Innocence
“It’s only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.” —Sean Penn.
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Robin Wright: Look better the next day
“If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day.” —Robin Wright.
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Alfred de Vigny: History
“History is a novel whose author is the people.” —Alfred de Vigny, poet, playwright, and novelist (27 Mar 1797-1863).
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Ingrid Bergman: Train your intuition
“You must train your intuition – you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.” —Ingrid Bergman.
