Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Penn Jillette: Something you really want to believe
“If there’s something you really want to believe, that’s what you should question the most.” — Penn Jillette.
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Daniel Kahneman: Compelling narrative
“A compelling narrative fosters an illusion of inevitability.” — Daniel Kahneman.
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Richard Jeni: Marriages
“It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!” —Richard Jeni.
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Sarojini Naidu: Country’s greatness
“A country’s greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of the race.” —Sarojini Naidu.
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Simon Sinek: What we don’t know
“When we say what we don’t know, it increases the likelihood that someone who does know will offer to help.” —Simon Sinek.
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Stephen Baldwin: Evolution
“Evolution isn’t true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here?” —Stephen Baldwin.
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David Schoenbrun: Human relations
“In human relations, those who do not love are rarely loved: those who will not be friends end up by having none.” —David Schoenbrun.
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Chris Kyle: Strong Christian
“I am a strong Christian. Not a perfect one—not close. But I strongly believe in God, Jesus, and the Bible. When I die, God is going to hold me accountable for everything I’ve done on earth. He may hold me back until last and run everybody else through the line, because it will take so…
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Tzvetan Todorov: Fighting evil
“We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.” —Tzvetan Todorov, philosopher (b. 1 Mar 1939) .
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Harper Lee: Real courage
“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” —Harper Lee.
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Ivanka Trump: Complicit
“If being complicit is wanting to be a force for good and to make a positive impact, then I’m complicit.” —Ivanka Trump.
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Chris Kyle: Signed up
“I signed up to protect this country. I do not choose the wars.” ― Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History.
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Julie Bishop: Prevention
“Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.” —Julie Bishop.
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Grace Jones: Doing the unexpected
“If you are a fan of doing the unexpected, and I am, then it is an advantage to be highly skilled at changing your mind. If you do not want to limit yourself, then be prepared to change your mind—often.” ― Grace Jones.
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Evan Rachel Wood: Blueprint
“A script can just be a blueprint, and you’ve got to go in and build it and color it in and paint it.” —Evan Rachel Wood.
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Jamarlin Martin: Material differences
“The big difference between the tech and real estate bubbles and the crypto bubble is that pizza boys and uber drivers are in the frenzy early before big corporate institutions. The big institutions are not in the space yet and I believe we are only in the 1st inning. Investors shouldn’t lazily compare bubbles that…
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Simon Sinek: Talking
“Let’s stop talking about what we do and start talking about what we believe.” —Simon Sinek.
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Thomas A Edison: Chief function
“The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.” —Thomas A. Edison.
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Emma Thompson: Unfortunate
“It’s unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn’t have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They’re kinder.” ― Emma Thompson.
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Yitzhak Rabin: Unsavory enemies
“You don’t make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.” —Yitzhak Rabin.
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Erika Hall: Innovation
“Innovation takes hold when a new idea fits into existing habits like a key into a lock.” —Erika Hall.
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Marcus Aurelius: How to act
“How to act: Never under compulsion, out of selfishness, without forethought, with misgivings. Don’t gussy up your thoughts. No surplus words or unnecessary actions. Let the spirit in you represent a man, an adult, a citizen, a Roman, a ruler. Taking up his post like a soldier and patiently awaiting his recall from life. Needing…
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C V Raman: Ask the right questions
“Ask the right questions, and nature will open the doors to her secrets.” – – – Sir CV Raman.
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Zayn Malik: Black and white
“Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I’m very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don’t really like playing mind games.” —Zayn Malik.
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Bernardo Bertolucci: Ambiguous ending
“I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.” —Bernardo Bertolucci.
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Michel de Montaigne: Stark mad
“Man is certainly stark mad: he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens.” —Michel de Montaigne, essayist (28 Feb 1533-1592).
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Amy Winehouse: Mr. False Pretence
“Mr. False Pretence, you don’t make sense I just don’t know you But you make me cry, where’s my kiss goodbye I think I love you” ― Amy Winehouse.
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Stephen Tobolowsky: Unintended consequences
“Any endeavor has unintended consequences. Any ill-conceived endeavor has more.” — Stephen Tobolowsky.
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William A Sherden: Unintended consequences
“Sometimes unintended consequences are catastrophic, sometimes beneficial. Occasionally their impacts are imperceptible, at other times colossal. Large events frequently have a number of unintended consequences, but even small events can trigger them. There are numerous instances of purposeful deeds completely backfiring, causing the exact opposite of what was intended.” —William A Sherden.
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Carrie Fisher: Rodeo Drive
“I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.” —Carrie Fisher.
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Sonam Kapoor: On acting
“If you’re not good looking, you’re considered a good actor, you know what I mean?” —Sonam Kapoor.
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Morarji Desai: Life
“Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.” —Morarji Desai.
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Max Mosley: Defend yourselves
“Defend yourselves! If people don’t defend their rights, they lose them.” —Max Mosley.
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Dolly Parton: Not a dumb blonde
“I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.” —Dolly Parton.
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Dr. Rajendra Prasad: Vegetarianism
“Today, with the weapons of mass destruction at man’s disposal, the human race itself is in imminent danger of being destroyed. It is a far cry from vegetarianism to atomic or hydrogen bomb, but if you look at it, there is no escape from vegetarianism ultimately if we want to escape from the hydrogen bomb.…
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Thomas Edison: Real work
“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.” —Thomas A. Edison.
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Jared Kushner: Permanent things
“The only things that are really permanent are love, family, friendship, and that is a lesson. At the end of the day, that’s really what it boils down to. The rest of it is just stuff.” —Jared Kushner.
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Sundar Pichai: Time travel
“I have a secret project which adds four hours every day to the 24 hours we have. There’s a bit of time travel involved.” —Sundar Pichai.
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Jimmy Kimmel: Real emotion
“Real emotion is good – or doing a good job of faking real emotion.” —Jimmy Kimmel.
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Ellen DeGeneres: 10% of our brains
“We use 10% of our brains. Imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other 60%.” —Ellen DeGeneres.
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Benedict Cumberbatch: Comfort zone
“The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.” —Benedict Cumberbatch.
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Paul Krugman: Even-handed
“The media are desperately afraid of being accused of bias. And that’s partly because there’s a whole machine out there, an organized attempt to accuse them of bias whenever they say anything that the Right doesn’t like. So rather than really try to report things objectively, they settle for being even-handed, which is not the…
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Adam Scott: Having a beard
“I like having a beard. What’s funny is when you shave a beard, you realize how freezing cold your face is! The primary purpose evolution-wise is to keep you warm, to grow hair on your face. You shave it off, and your face is freezing for a few days.” —Adam Scott.
