Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Simon Sinek: Vision
“‘Vision’ is the ability to talk about the future with such clarity it is as if we are talking about the past.” —Simon Sinek.
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Angelina Jolie: Your mind defines you
“I tell my daughters, ‘What sets you apart is what you are willing to do for others. Anyone can put on a dress and makeup. It’s your mind that will define you. Find out who you are, what you think, and what you stand for. And fight for others to have those same freedoms. A…
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Imran Khan: Losing
“I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.” —Imran Khan.
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Kate Middleton: Just as important
“A child’s mental health is just as important as their physical health.” —Kate Middleton.
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Angelina Jolie: Flaws and scars
“I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.” —Angelina Jolie.
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Prince Andrew: Bankers and politicians
“It would not be a bad idea if bankers were to go and sit occasionally with politicians in their political surgeries, where they might get a sense of the injustice that some of the community feel about the banks.” —Prince Andrew.
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Eric Schmidt: Experiment in anarchy
“The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.” —Eric Schmidt.
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Jaden Smith: Perception
“Be careful with how you make the world perceive you, because they’ll perceive you like that for the rest of your life.” —Jaden Smith.
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Harriet Lerner: Change
“Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change.” —Harriet Lerner, psychologist.
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Rajnikanth: Need and greed
“Whether you have a Maruti or a BMW, the road remains the same. Whether you travel economy class or business, your destination doesn’t change. Whether you have a Titan or a Rolex, the time is the same. There is nothing wrong in dreaming a luxurious life. What needs to be taken care of is not…
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Benjamin Netanyahu: Weapons, violence and Israel
“If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel.” —Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Emma Watson: Cliché
“It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you’re not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are.” —Emma Watson.
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Kamal Haasan: CEOs running the country
“In future we’ll have CEOs running the country not leaders, because I think we are not sheep any more, we don’t need to be shepherd, we need someone to take care of us.” –—Kamal Haasan.
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Gaston Brown: To preserve humanity
“Certainly, in the case of the Caribbean, we are feeling the effects of climate change. We’re living it. We cannot be in denial — we’ve suffered the consequences. We’re minimal polluters, but we’re suffering disproportionate effects from climate change. These profligate users of fossil fuel — they need to take responsibility. They have a global…
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Ravi Subramanian: Success
“Success is not always measured in terms of dollars earned or turnover. It is measured in terms of the difference you have made to the people around you.” —Ravi Subramanian.
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Eric Schmidt: Not a speculative investment
“It is not a speculative investment even though it is being used as such by other people. As Bitcoin network grows the value of Bitcoin grows. As people move into Bitcoin for payments and receipts they stop using US Dollars, Euros and Chinese Yuan which in the long-term devalues these currencies.” ––Eric Schmidt.
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Kate Middleton: Emotional difficulties
“No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.” —Kate Middleton.
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Richard Branson: Respect
“Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.” – Richard Branson.
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Jack Ma: Globalization
“We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good… when trade stops, war comes.” —Jack Ma.
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Kofi Annan: Future of freedom
“Technology does not stand still, and nor should democracy. We have to act fast, because digital advances could be just the start of a slippery slope leading to an Orwellian world controlled by Big Brother, where millions of sensors in our smartphones and other devices collect data and make us vulnerable to manipulation. Who should…
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Kofi Annan: Social media
‘Social media’s ideological “echo chambers” exacerbate people’s natural biases and diminish opportunities for healthy debate.’ —Kofi Annan.
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Catherine Deneuve: Opportunities
“Opportunities are often things you haven’t noticed the first time around.” —Catherine Deneuve.
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Arnaud Nourry: Ebooks
“The ebook is a stupid product. It is exactly the same as print, except it’s electronic. There is no creativity, no enhancement, no real digital experience. We, as publishers, have not done a great job going digital. We’ve tried. We’ve tried enhanced or enriched ebooks – didn’t work. We’ve tried apps, websites with our content…
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Arnaud Nourry: Pricing ebooks
“If you let the price of ebooks go down to say $2 or $3 in Western markets, you are going to kill all infrastructure, you’re going to kill booksellers, you’re going to kill supermarkets, and you are going to kill the author’s revenues. You have to defend the logic of your market against the interest…
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James Marsden: Everyone can have their heart broken
“Everyone can have their heart broken. Even if you know the relationship isn’t working, it’s still sad. Even in a bad relationship, they’re part of your life for a long time, and saying goodbye to that can be difficult.” —James Marsden.
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Émile Zola: Life, struggle, intensity
“I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don’t care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.” —Émile Zola.
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Nicolas Cage: To be a good actor
“To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.” —Nicolas Cage.
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Dennis Quaid: It’s like death
“When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It’s like death.” —Dennis Quaid.
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Mark Cuban: Liberal arts majors
“I personally think there’s going to be a greater demand in 10 years for liberal arts majors than there were for programming majors and maybe even engineering, because when the data is all being spit out for you, options are being spit out for you, you need a different perspective in order to have a…
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Shah Asad Rizvi: Dance of destinies
“One step, two steps, three steps; like winds of time experience joy of centuries, when movements become revelations of the dance of destinies.” —Shah Asad Rizvi.
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Ahmed Mostafa: Fiction and religion
“The only difference between fiction and religion is that people don’t kill themselves over fiction.” —Ahmed Mostafa.
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Camila Cabello: Cute
“My general thing is, if you feel cute in your outfit, then your outfit is cute.” —Camila Cabello.
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Magda Wierzycka: Three main strategies
“There are three main strategies that you need to employ. The first is to put up your hand for all the tasks that no one else wants to do. The second strategy is to always speak your mind. And finally, there are those pivotal moments in your life when you have to take a risk…
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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…
