Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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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.
