Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Betsy DeVos: Donald Trump
“I don’t think Donald Trump represents the Republican Party… I think more and more people are going to realize that they really don’t trust him.” —Betsy DeVos.
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Sterling K Brown: Empathy
“People are starting to understand the other side’s perspective and that’s where empathy can sort of begin – once you quit judging other people but just understand where they’re coming from.” —Sterling K. Brown.
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Simon Sinek: Criticism and advice
“When we are closed to ideas, what we hear is criticism. When we are open to criticism, what we get is advice.” —Simon Sinek.
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Douglas Adams: Beautiful garden
“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?” —Douglas Adams, writer, dramatist, and musician (11 Mar 1952-2001).
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Chuck Todd: Nothing like music
“There’s nothing like music to teach you that eventually if you work hard enough, it does get better. You see the results.” —Chuck Todd.
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Colin Firth: Playing a villain
“Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he’s doing very little wrong.” —Colin Firth.
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Cynthia Johnson: Opinion
“You never know how a misspelled word or grammatically incorrect statement can change someone’s opinion of you.” —Cynthia Johnson.
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Rupert Murdoch: Libel
“It’s a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven’t got any other business interests.” —Rupert Murdoch.
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George Bernard Shaw: More than he takes out
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out. George Bernard Shaw.
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Nassim Taleb: Filtering
“Most of economics is perceived to be incentives and disincentives. So, skin in the game would be to incentivize people if they do well, and also disincentivize them. But that’s not it. No. Skin in the game for me is about filtering. It’s evolution. You cannot have evolution if you don’t have skin in the…
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Sharon Stone: Are they really prettier?
“We’ve got 400,000 girls with beach-y blonde hair, the same nose, gigantic lips, implants in their cheeks, and little Chicklets for teeth. Are they really prettier?” —Sharon Stone.
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Marcus Aurelius: Other people’s mistakes
“Leave other people’s mistakes where they lie.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Fred Allen: With his hat on
“A gentleman is any man who wouldn’t hit a woman with his hat on.” —Fred Allen.
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Sonakshi Sinha: Be comfortable
“Be comfortable; be you. Whats most important is to understand what suits your body type and personality. Stick to that, and you cant go wrong!” —Sonakshi Sinha.
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P Z Myers: Science gets the job done
“What has occurred over the course of the last few centuries is a growing (but by no means universal or certain) recognition that science gets the job done, while religion makes excuses. Sometimes they are very pretty excuses that capture the imagination of the public, but ultimately, when you want to win a war or…
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Seneca: Disorderly company
“He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a man who is alive, but he who knows that these were the terms drawn up for him at the moment of his conception will live according to the bond, and at the same time will also with like strength of mind guarantee that none…
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Bobby Fischer: Intellectual country
“When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.” —Bobby Fischer.
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Simon Sinek: Loving a company
“Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first.” —Simon Sinek.
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Lawrence G Lovasik: Eyes on all those present
“A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.” Lawrence G. Lovasik.
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Martha Graham: Mediocrity
“To me, the only sin is mediocrity.” —Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer.
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Corey Feldman: Breaking rules
“I met my wife by breaking two of my rules: never date a girl seriously that you meet at a nightclub and never date a fan.” —Corey Feldman.
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Mark Cuban: Sweat equity
“Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don’t do it.” —Mark Cuban.
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Arjun Kapoor: Filmmaking
“Filmmaking, at the end of the day, is a business and a balance must be struck between that and emotional ties.” —Arjun Kapoor.
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Lucy Hale: Real people
“Real people aren’t perfect; they fall down and mess up and screw up. Those are the kind of people that I look to, and I’ve always aspired to just be authentic.” —Lucy Hale.
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Amelia Earhart: Courage
“Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release, From little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings.” ― Amelia Earhart.
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Marc Andreesen: Radical product
“Most of the big breakthrough technologies/companies seem crazy at first: PCs, the internet, Bitcoin, Airbnb, Uber, 140 characters.. It has to be a radical product. It has to be something where, when people look at it, at first they say, ‘I don’t get it, I don’t understand it. I think it’s too weird, I think…
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Ryan Holiday: Potential
“Your potential, the absolute best you’re capable of—that’s the metric to measure yourself against. Your standards are. Winning is not enough. People can get lucky and win. People can be assholes and win. Anyone can win. But not everyone is the best possible version of themselves.” ― Ryan Holiday, The Ego Is the Enemy.
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Simon Sinek: Work-life balance
“We will not have work-life balance until we feel safe in the place that we live and feel safe in the place that we work.” —Simon Sinek.
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Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach: Musician
“A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.” —Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach.
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Lucretius: Tremble and fear
“For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.” —Lucretius, poet and philosopher.
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Luigi Pirandello: All the time
“Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.” —Luigi Pirandello.
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Jeff Bezos: Three big ideas
“We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.” —Jeff Bezos.
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Unknown: I am the storm
“Fate whispers to the warrior, ‘You cannot withstand the storm,’ and the warrior whispers back, ‘I am the storm.’” – Unknown
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Rani Mukerji: In pairs
“I’ve heard that we come on the earth in pairs, get separated only to meet once again through marriage. So, whoever is there on this earth for me, will eventually get paired with me. Till then, I’ll enjoy my singlehood.” —Rani Mukerji.
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Roger Deakins: Not nostalgic for technology
“Am I nostalgic for film? … I mean, it’s had a good run, hasn’t it? You know, I’m not nostalgic for a technology. I’m nostalgic for the kind of films that used to be made that aren’t being made now.” —Roger Deakins.
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Christopher Plummer: Just have fun
“Try and stay sober. Until the curtain call. And for God’s sake, have fun. Don’t suffer for your art. Just have fun.” —Christopher Plummer.
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Chris Hemsworth: Cybercrime fighters
“These cybercrime fighters are regarded as the superheroes. They’re highly intelligent and have this alien-like, advanced-type knowledge within themselves. It’s something that impressed me every day.” —Chris Hemsworth.
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Trevor Baylis: Key to success
“The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.” —Trevor Baylis.
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Gary Cohn: Stand out in the crowd
“Every time you get into a new job, new location, you have an amazing opportunity in front of you. You get to play dumb for as long as people will allow you to play dumb. You get to ask all the dumb questions, you get to ask multiple people the dumb questions, and you get…
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Simon Sinek: Direct impact
“What we do for others has a direct impact on how we feel about ourselves.” —Simon Sinek.
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Ruthie Ann Miles: Constantly entertained
“The generation we live in, we’re constantly entertained – we turn our heads this way, and there’s something else to entertain us. Sitting down in one seat for two hours may not be enough anymore.” —Ruthie Ann Miles.
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Michael Eisner: Management does matter
“In every business, in every industry, management does matter.” —Michael Eisner.
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English proverb: Education and conversation
“Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.” —English Proverb.
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Michael C Hall: No secrets in life
“There are no secrets in life; just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface.” —Michael C. Hall.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Fame
“Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.” —Gabriel García Márquez, novelist, journalist, Nobel laureate (6 Mar 1927-2014).
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Christopher Plummer: Truly great structure
“A truly great structure, one that is meant to stand the tests of time, never disregards its environment. A serious architect takes that into account. He knows that if he wants presence, he must consult with nature.” —Christopher Plummer.
