Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Magda Wierzycka: Public speaking and debating
“If I could change one thing about our education system, it would be to introduce public speaking and debating as compulsory subjects from primary school level. ” —Magda Wierzycka.
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Remo D’souza: Dance
“Dance has helped me overcome a lot of personal challenges. If I feel sad or depressed, I just go to the set and dance. It makes me feel alive.” —Remo D’souza.
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James Balog: Old caveman-imprint idea
“We still carry this old caveman-imprint idea that we’re small, nature’s big, and it’s everything we can manage to hang on and survive. When big geophysical events happen – a huge earthquake, tsunami, or volcanic eruption – we’re reminded of that.” — James Balog.
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Jennifer Egan: Part of routine
“Don’t write when it moves you … Make it such a part of your routine that not doing it feels strange.” —Jennifer Egan.
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Britney Spears: Performing is my therapy
“Performing is my therapy, to become different people onstage.” —Britney Spears.
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Ed Sheeran: Tunes and gigs
“The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.” —Ed Sheeran.
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Elon Musk: Mars
“Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.” —Elon Musk.
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Angelina Jolie: Make bold choices
“Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.” —Angelina Jolie.
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Richard Branson: True success
“Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.” —Richard Branson.
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Denise Richards: Internet
“The Internet’s been so great, and it’s so nice to have fans do nice, elaborate websites, but I think the downside is some of the things… for real fans to go on and see that 90 percent of the information isn’t true or to see pictures that aren’t really me. ” —Denise Richards.
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Paris Hilton: I’m that icon
“There’s nobody in the world like me. I think every decade has an iconic blonde, like Marilyn Monroe or Princess Diana and, right now, I’m that icon.” —Paris Hilton.
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Ed Sheeran: Someone with a sense of humour
“Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That’s an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don’t want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you’d rather have a discussion that…
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Ben Franklin: Tolerable abilities
I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind if he first forms a good plan and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, makes the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.” – Ben Franklin.
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Paul Graham: Seeming likeable
“There’s are a lot of people that are really good at seeming likeable for a while.” —Paul Graham.
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Vinod Khosla: Mirror neurons
“Three years ago, I was having a conversation with Jeff Flier, who was then the dean of Harvard Medical School. I said, You are selecting students for IQ. It is so hard to get into Stanford Medical School or Harvard Medical School; you are selecting for IQ. I suggested that they change the admissions criteria…
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Vinod Khosla: Not fun
“No large change comes from an organization that is at the center of the system, for two reasons: First, they tend to think linearly; and second, they really don’t have an incentive to cause disruption because ‘disruption’ sounds like a great word but it is painful for some people. If you have been disrupted, it…
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Vinod Khosla: Half a billion people
“In India, probably half a billion people have never seen a doctor in their life. That is a pretty good place to start with primary care or an oncology specialist artificial intelligence (AI) system.” —Vinod Khosla.
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Vinod Khosla: Blows my mind
“There are, perhaps, a few hundred sensors in the typical car and none in the body. A single ad shown to you on Facebook has way more computing power applied to it than a $10,000 medical decision you have to make. It blows my mind.” —Vinod Khosla.
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Vinod Khosla: Science of medicine
“I believe that we are beginning an era where we will go from the practice of medicine to the science of medicine. That science of medicine will be much more quantitative. The patient won’t get three different recommendations depending upon the physician; the patient will get the exact same recommendation and it will be probabilistically…
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Vinod Khosla: Human elements of care
“My view is that doctors should be involved in the most human elements of care. A very large percentage of what doctors do can be done with technology, which would free the doctor to do other things. No doctor spends enough time with the typical patient. The median patient visit is so short.” —Vinod Khosla.
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Naomi Watts: Directors
“Directors are our teachers, and I’m always craving to work with a great director. They’re pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let’s put it this way: It’ll take me a lot longer to read a script if there’s no director attached.” —Naomi Watts.
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Jamie Foxx: It does
“We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn’t have a sort of influence. It does.” — Jamie Foxx.
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Eric Dane: Never
“Never ask a woman when she’s due unless you know for a fact she’s expecting.” – – – Eric Dane.
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Anushka Sharma: Compassion
“I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.” —Anushka Sharma.
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Shah Rukh Khan: Friends
“I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be…
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Ravi Subramanian: Problem with trust
“The problem with trust is that if it is broken, then all acts committed by the perpetrator come under the purview of suspicion.” —Ravi Subramanian.
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Rishi Kapoor: Being Rishi Kapoor
“I am Prithviraj Kapoor’s grandson. Raj Kapoor’s son. I am Neetu Kapoor’s husband. Riddhima and Ranbir Kapoor’s father. I am Rishi Kapoor. I was born lucky and stayed lucky.” —Rishi Kapoor.
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Maneka Gandhi: No less precious
“The skin of a python is no less precious to the snake than fur is to the fox.” —Maneka Gandhi.
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Elon Musk: Figure out
“We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.” —Elon Musk.
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Kapil Sibal: Nationalism
“Nationalism and anti-nationalism is a matter of perception. You cannot mandate who is a nationalist and what is not.” —Kapil Sibal.
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Haley Bennett: Pioneer women
“Pioneer women were very tough – they had to be, because the men go off for long periods of time, and the women would have to be able to protect themselves and their homes.” —Haley Bennett.
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Paul Graham: Worse danger
“There are worse things than having people misunderstand your work. A worse danger is that you will yourself misunderstand your work.” — Paul Graham.
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Angelina Jolie: It’s not going to upset her
“I’m a woman, and anytime you tell a woman that she looks nice, it’s not going to upset her.” —Angelina Jolie.
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Angelina Jolie: We have a choice
“We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.” ― Angelina Jolie.
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Jeff Bezos: Customer service
” The best customer service is if the customer doesn’t need to call you, doesn’t need to talk to you. It just works. ” —Jeff Bezos.
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Marilyn Manson: Love your enemies
“When you’re taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?” —Marilyn Manson.
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Bill Gates: Discrimination
“Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.” —Bill Gates.
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Camila Cabello: Love yourself
“I think it’s really important to love yourself. Because I feel like a lot of the time, especially right now, I’ve noticed that insecurity is something that’s so common that it’s not glorified but like romanticized. And it shouldn’t be because at the end of the day you have to live with yourself and be…
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Graham Norton: Brain dead
“All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I’m relatively available, but not to live with.” —Graham Norton.
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Walter Brueggemann: Anto-neighborliness
“I imagine Lent for you and for me as a great departure from the greedy, anxious antineighborliness of our economy, a great departure from our exclusionary politics that fears the other, a great departure from self-indulgent consumerism that devours creation. And then an arrival in a new neighborhood, because it is a gift to be…
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Justin Trudeau: Gender equality
“Gender equality is not only an issue for women and girls.” —Justin Trudeau.
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Warren Beatty: Marriage and monogamy
“Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.” —Warren Beatty.
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Bruno Mars: Person who wrote it
“No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.” —Bruno Mars.
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Mitt Romney: Invisible hand
“The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.” —Mitt Romney.
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Yoko Ono: Dreams and reality
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” —Yoko Ono.
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Laura Ingraham: Rule of thumb
“There’s a rule of thumb in politics. If you’re at a point where you’re complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that’s probably a sign that you’re losing.” —Laura Ingraham.
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Ivanka Trump: Success
“Success isn’t something that happens to you; you happen to it.” —-Ivanka Trump.
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Melania Trump: Mistakes
“I think is important to give a child room to make mistakes in order to learn. Mistakes build wings so later in life they can fly and go on their own. Let them fall once in awhile… Be their friend and parent as well. When they’re in trouble, they will come to you first. Don’t…
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Yoko Ono: More creative
“Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.” —Yoko Ono.
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John Travolta: Feel alive
“You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.” —John Travolta.
