Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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Emma Watson: Don’t feel stupid
“Don’t feel stupid if you don’t like what everyone else pretends to love.” ― Emma Watson.
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Warren Buffett: Not romantic
“Calling someone who trades actively in the market an investor is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a romantic.” —Warren Buffett.
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Salma Hayek: Never denied my background nor culture
“I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.” —Salma Hayek.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Literature
“Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.” —Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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Simon Sinek: Trust has two dimensions
“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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Sofia Kovalevskaya: Poet in soul
“It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.” —Sofia Kovalevskaya.
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Melinda Gates: Women acting on their own
“Women acting on their own can do what all the philanthropic organizations in the world can never accomplish: change the unwritten rule that women are lesser than men.” —Melinda Gates.
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Melinda Gates: Everything changes
“… when money flows into the hands of women who have the authority to use it, everything changes.” —Melinda Gates.
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Mindy Kaling: I saw you Monday!
“You should never have to say hello or goodbye. Even at work sometimes, and I know this is very unpopular, is that if I’m going to work every single day, I don’t think you should have to hug people hello every single day when you come to work. I saw you Monday!” —Mindy Kaling.
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Steven Spielberg: Failure and success
“Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.” —Steven Spielberg.
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Gina Rodriguez: Bigger dreams
“With each dream accomplished, bigger ones are put in their place.” —Gina Rodriguez.
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Tom Holland: Trying your hardest
“The most important thing, in anything you do, is always trying your hardest, because even if you try your hardest and it’s not as good as you’d hoped, you still have that sense of not letting yourself down.” —Tom Holland.
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Sarah Caldwell: Success
“Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.” —Sarah Caldwell.
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Christopher Plummer: Theater roles
“Theater roles are written by the great masters. The greatest literature that you can possibly know are the theater roles like King Lear, Hamlet, and all of those great roles. So all you do is you dive into these unchallenged roles and see how far you can get, what kind of accolades you can get,…
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Unknown: Without being disagreeable
“A gentleman is a man who can disagree without being disagreeable.” – Source Unknown.
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Sunny Leone: Freedom of speech
“There is a price you pay when you want freedom of speech. You must be willing to accept the good, the bad and the ugly when trying something out of the box.” —Sunny Leone.
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Simon Sinek: Greatest contribution
“The greatest contribution of a leader is to make other leaders.” —Simon Sinek.
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Cuba Gooding Jr: Based on race
“I have never made a decision based on race and never will.” —Cuba Gooding, Jr.
