Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Jennifer Lawrence: Acting is stupid
“Not to sound rude, but [acting] is stupid. Everybody’s like, ‘How can you remain with a level head?’ And I’m like, ‘Why would I ever get cocky? I’m not saving anybody’s life. There are doctors who save lives and firemen who run into burning buildings. I’m making movies. It’s stupid.’” —Jennifer Lawrence.
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Jameela Jamil: No is a right
“Women must learn that no is a right, not a privilege.” — Jameela Jamil.
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Daniel Kahneman: People’s mood
“People’s mood is really determined primarily by their genetic make-up and personality, and in the second place by their immediate context, and only in the third and fourth place by worries and concerns and other things like that.” —Daniel Kahneman.
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Oscar Wilde: True gentleman
“A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.” – Oscar Wilde.
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Warren Buffett: Investing
“A climate of fear is your friend when investing; a euphoric world is your enemy.” —Warren Buffett.
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah: Height of glory
“No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.” —Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
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Roger Bannister: Man who will win
“The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.” ― Roger Bannister.
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David Ogden Stiers: Family
“Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.” —David Ogden Stiers.
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Anna Hazare: Living
“Those who live for themselves die, those who die for the society live.” —Anna Hazare.
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Mamata Banerjee: Change
“Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the…
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Farooq Abdullah: Can’t say no
“I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can’t say no.” —Farooq Abdullah.
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Khaled Hosseini: Accusing finger
“In many parts of the world, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.” —Khaled Hosseini.
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Naval Ravikant: Ten year trap
“If you’re more passionate about founding a business than the business itself, you can fall into a ten year trap. Better to stay emotionally unattached and select the best opportunity that arises. Applies to relationships too.” —Naval Ravikant.
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Macaulay Culkin: Forgivable
“People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That’s half the point of having confession in church — you need to be able to fess up to what you’ve done.” —Macaulay Culkin.
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Elton John: Songbirds and free birds
“You can cage the songbird, but you can’t make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you’ll have to clip her wings.” —Elton John.
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Pamela Anderson: Low expectations
“It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it’s very easy to surprise people.” —Pamela Anderson.
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Sarah Parish: Living with fear
“Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don’t go out on the branch, you’re never going to get the best fruit.” —Sarah Parish.
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Cuba Gooding Jr: Surround yourself
“Don’t let people disrespect you. My mom says don’t open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.” —Cuba Gooding, Jr.
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Elton John: By the frame
“Don’t judge the picture by the frame, every man is not the same.” —Elton John.
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Rick Ross: Success
“If you’re a hater we make you scared to show your face. It’s called success.” —Rick Ross.
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Macaulay Culkin: Bag of bones
“I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I’ve ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am…
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Warren Buffett: Stock forecasters
“We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good.” —Warren Buffett.
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Melania Trump: Children’s issues
“As I have said before, it is important that as adults we take the lead and responsibility in helping our children manage the many issues they’re facing today. This means encouraging positive habits on social media and technology, even limiting time online and understanding the content they are exposed to on a daily basis.” —Melania…
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Khaled Hosseini: Life
“Life just doesn’t care about our aspirations, or sadness. It’s often random, and it’s often stupid and it’s often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.” —Khaled Hosseini.
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Warren Buffett: Never attempt to make money on stock market
“I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.” —Warren Buffett.
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Rihanna: Accept your body
“You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that’s your body.” –-Rihanna.
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Ed Thorp: Market inefficiency
“Neither Jerry nor I believed the efficient market theory. I had overwhelming evidence of inefficiency from blackjack, from the history of Warren Buffett and friends, and from our daily success in Princeton Newport Partners. We didn’t ask, Is the market efficient? but rather, In what ways and to what extent is the market inefficient? and…
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Varun Gandhi: Equal opportunities
“I want to see an India where it doesn’t matter if I was Varun Dutta or Varun Ghosh or Varun Khan. All must get equal opportunities.” —Varun Gandhi.
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Darrell Hammond: 150 improvements
“I’ve become fascinated by the idea that it’s really achievable to make two or three small improvements in a week and by the end of the year, it’s 150 improvements.” —Darrell Hammond.
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Alexander Graham Bell: Doors
“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” —Alexander Graham Bell.
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Dalai Lama: Simple religion
“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.” —Dalai Lama.
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Anupam Kher: Life coaching
“I wrote a book on life coaching, because my life became my own reference point how to live.” —Anupam Kher.
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Camila Cabello: Accepting yourself
“There’s no freedom like the freedom that comes from accepting yourself.” —Camila Cabello.
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Taylor Swift: I took a chance
“I took a chance, I took a shot And you may think I’m bullet-proof, but I’m not. You took a swing, I took it hard. And down here from the ground I see who you are. ” ― Taylor Swift
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Alicia Vikander: Hundred nice words
“You can hear a hundred nice words about yourself, and you’ll only remember the one bad one.” —Alicia Vikander.
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John Irving: Religious freedom
“Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else’s religion practiced on us.” —-John Irving.
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Thomas Hood: No
“No sun – no moon! No morn – no noon – No dawn – no dusk – no proper time of day – No sky – no earthly view – No distance looking blue – No road – no street – no “t’other side the way” – No end to any Row – No indications…
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Steven Pinker: Danger of looking like fools
“When people organize their lives around these beliefs, and then learn of other people who seem to be doing just fine without them — or worse, who credibly rebut them — they are in danger of looking like fools.” —Steven Pinker.
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Blaise Pascal: What they find attractive
“People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.” —Blaise Pascal.
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William Sloane Coffin Jr: Fall for nothing
“If you don’t stand for something, you’re apt to fall for nothing!” —William Sloane Coffin Jr.
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Steven Pinker: Chronically fragile
“Challenge a person’s beliefs, and you challenge his dignity, standing, and power. And when those beliefs are based on nothing but faith, they are chronically fragile.” — Steven Pinker.
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Flannery O’Connor: Beliefs
“Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see, and they will not be a substitute for seeing.” — Flannery O’Connor.
