Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Mukesh Ambani: Ambition
“I don’t think that ambition should not be in the dictionary of entrepreneurs. But our ambition should be realistic. You have to realise that you can’t do everything.” —Mukesh Ambani.
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Shabana Azmi: Autonomy
“It’s not the revealing clothes that are a problem, it’s the camera stripping you of your autonomy.“ —Shabana Azmi.
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Monica Johnson: Hankering
“When you get a hankering to talk or complain about what you gave up for Lent, replace that hankering by speaking the word of God. For all the times you would have done the activity that you gave up for Lent, replace it by reading the word of God. Christians should always be drawing closer…
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Robbie Williams: Addictive success
“It‘s success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I’m addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them.” —Robbie Williams.
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Johnny Hallyday: Public is my drug
“I often feel lonely but never when I’m on stage… The public is my drug.” —Johnny Hallyday.
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Johnny Cash: Failure
“You build on failure. You use it as a steppingstone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.” Johnny Cash, singer and songwriter.
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Garry Kasparov: Agnostic technology
“All our technology is agnostic and can be used for good or evil, so worry about humans being better humans, not how capable our machine are.” —Garry Kasparov.
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Seneca: Let us…
“Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing. Let us balance life’s books each day. … The one who puts the finishing touches on their life each day is never short of time.” —Seneca.
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Michelle Obama: Everyday meal
“ The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that’s what’s happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal. “—Michelle Obama.
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Meghan Markle: Grey
“Just as black and white, when mixed, make grey, in many ways that’s what it did to my self-identity: it created a murky area of who I was, a haze around how people connected with me. I was grey. And who wants to be this indifferent colour, devoid of depth and stuck in the middle?…
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Simon Sinek: Management and leadership
“Management is the practice of manipulating people for personal gain. Leadership is the responsibility of inspiring people for the good of the group.” —Simon Sinek.
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Robert H Jackson: Fixed star
“If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.” —Robert H. Jackson.
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Elon Musk: Knowledge
“It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree — make sure you understand the fundamental principles, i.e the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.” —Elon Musk.
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Bill & Melinda Gates: Optimism
“… being an optimist isn’t about knowing that life used to be worse. It’s about knowing how life can get better.” —Bill & Melinda Gates.
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Michael Blastland & Andrew Dilnot: Numbers
“Numbers, when they’re large enough, simply blow our mental fuses. People often find anything with an ‘-illion’ on the end incomprehensible. They make a useless mental shortcut: ‘lots of zeros = big.’” — Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot, authors, The Numbers Game.
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A A Milne: Hundred minus one
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” —A. A. Milne.
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Charles M Schulz: Love and chocolate
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” —Charles M. Schulz.
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Arjit Singh: Technology can only make you superior
“If someone is trying to skip the struggle – which is the creative job – our machines today, the technology that we have, can help the person, but it is only momentary. On the other hand, if you are creative, you have the skill, and you are hardworking, technology can only make you superior.” —Arijit…
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Leo Varadkar: Roots
“Mum is from West Waterford, Dungarvan. She’s a farmer’s daughter. She’s a nurse. She left home very young – I think she was 18 – and went off to train as a nurse in England. My dad is from India, just south of Mumbai. He was one of the first in his family to go…
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Harshita Arora: UI versus UX
“Simply put, UI is how things look; UX is how things work. UX is a process, while UI is a deliverable. Let’s elaborate further…” —Harshita Arora.
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Mike Pence: Smoking doesn’t kill
“Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn’t kill.” —Mike Pence.
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Ivanka Trump: Travel inspires me
“In both business and personal life, I’ve always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.” —Ivanka Trump.
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Muhammadu Buhari: Everybody and nobody
“I belong to everybody, and I belong to nobody.” —Muhammadu Buhari.
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Deborah Cohen: Your audience are experts
“You can’t debunk bad science by doing bad science. Your audience are experts, and they will pull you apart if you get something wrong – so you have to be absolutely water-tight. I’m doing the dirty digging and spade work that doesn’t always make you popular.” —Deborah Cohen on being a science journalist.
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Walter Isaacson: Leonardo da Vinci
‘ When Leonardo was painting The Last Supper, spectators would visit and sit quietly just so they could watch him work. The creation of art, like the discussion of science, had become at times a public event. According to the account of a priest, Leonardo would “come here in the early hours of the morning…
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Prannoy Roy: Too much socialism
“India’s problem isn’t too much democracy, it’s too much socialism.” —Prannoy Roy.
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Paulo Coelho: We aren’t who we want to be
“We aren’t who we want to be. We are what society demands. We are what our parents choose. We don’t want to disappoint anyone. So we smother the best in us.” —Paulo Coelho.
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Liam Hemsworth: Personal life
“There is a time and place for publicity, but to stay a sane person, you must have a personal life.” —Liam Hemsworth.
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Jacob Zuma: Distortion
“People today think being single is nice. It’s actually not right. That’s a distortion. You’ve got to have kids. Kids are important to a woman because they give extra training to a woman, to be a mother.” —Jacob Zuma.
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Jennifer Aniston: True love
“True love brings up everything – you’re allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.” —Jennifer Aniston.
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Melinda Gates: Right direction
“If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.” —Melinda Gates.
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Jennifer Garner: Beauty
“Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you’ve lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren’t too bad, what more do you need?” —Jennifer Garner.
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Yuval Noah Harari: Technological progress
” What I try to focus on is not to try to stop the march of technological progress. Instead, I try to run faster. If Amazon knows you better than you know yourself, then the game is up. ” —Yuval Noah Harari.
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Paulo Coelho: Tired of hating
“I forgive you not because I became a saint, but because I am tired of hating.” — Paulo Coelho.
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Lydia Polgreen: Emotion
“I think facts and truth are essential to journalism but you need to reckon with emotion. You have to deal with how people feel, otherwise you miss the story.” —Lydia Polgreen.
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Charlie Munger: Long-term advantage
“It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.” —Charlie Munger.
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Carey Mulligan: We’re available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs
“Posing on the red carpet feels like you’re selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it’s like we’re saying, ‘Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We’re available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!’” —Carey Mulligan.
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Prasad Narulkar: Always do something
“Always do something to change things around you, even if small steps.” – – – Prasad Narulkar @prasad84.
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Billy Ocean: Public service
“And you realise you’re doing a public service in making people happy – as a musician you can give people something a doctor, a lawyer, a politician cannot give them that. It’s not scientific. It’s spiritual – a good feeling. And although you don’t know them personally, the audience are like your friends.” —Billy Ocean.
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Christine Lagarde: Reasonably optimistic
“I’m reasonably optimistic because of the landscape we have at the moment. But we cannot sit back and wait for growth to continue as normal. I’m ringing not the alarm signal, but the strong encouragement and warning signal… We need to anticipate where the next crisis will be. Will it be shadow banking? Will it…
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Sofia Richie: That still doesn’t cut it, buddy
“I’m very light, so some people don’t really know that I’m black. I’ve been in situations where people will say something kind of racist, and I’ll step in, and they’ll be like, ‘Oh, well, you’re light.’ That still doesn’t cut it, buddy.” —Sofia Richie.
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Shah Rukh Khan: Slowly diminishing
“The line between what I really am, and what I am on reel, is slowly diminishing.” —Shah Rukh Khan.
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Dilip Kumar: Personality correction
“I think personality correction is necessary for successful men, like prime ministers, businessmen, politicians… it’s essential that one should keep an eye on one’s own personality. You must have seen people in politics who become chief ministers and then pass into oblivion – how egotistical they became and how pathetic they look.” —Dilip Kumar.
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Benjamin Netanyahu: Peace
“Peace is purchased from strength. It’s not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.” —Benjamin Netanyahu.
