Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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…
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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.
