Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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Thomas Edison: Doctor of the future
“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.” —Thomas Edison.
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Simon Sinek: Leaders
“Leaders are the ones who have the courage to go first and open a path for others to follow.” —Simon Sinek.
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Jared Kushner: Age
“Age is a convenient barometer of what a person is capable of, but it is only one.” —Jared Kushner.
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George Eliot: Human choice
“The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.” —George Eliot, writer.
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Carrie Fisher: No point
“There is no point at which you can say, ‘Well, I’m successful now. I might as well take a nap.’” —Carrie Fisher.
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Gemma Chan: Technological progress
“In the past, we’ve always come up with new jobs for humans to do and so it’s always benefitted us, technological progress, but now we’re not really creating enough new jobs to replace the jobs that are being automated.” —Gemma Chan.
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Bernie Sanders: Human decisions
“The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them.” —Bernie Sanders.
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Nawaz Sharif: Cornerstone
“Friendship with China is the cornerstone of Pakistan’s foreign policy.” —Nawaz Sharif.
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Jon Stewart: Internet
“The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.” —Jon Stewart.
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Shannen Doherty: Labels
“Labels are boring and often have nothing to with the person; it is just the way others perceive you, or choose to perceive you.” – – – Shannen Doherty.
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Simon Sinek: Three reasons it can
“The next time someone starts listing all the reasons an idea won’t work or can’t happen, ask them to give three reasons it can.” —Simon Sinek.
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Nicki Minaj: Success
“You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don’t make moves and you don’t climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you’re not competition.” ––Nicki Minaj.
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Ryan Holiday: Silence
“And that’s what is so insidious about talk. Anyone can talk about himself or herself. Even a child knows how to gossip and chatter. Most people are decent at hype and sales. So what is scarce and rare? Silence. The ability to deliberately keep yourself out of the conversation and subsist without its validation. Silence…
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Subramanian Swamy: Not a pacifist country
“India was not a pacifist country at all. India placed great emphasis on the higher value on… on violence. But it was never a substitute for not doing anything, or for cowardice.” —Subramanian Swamy.
