Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Sarojini Naidu: New breed of men
“Oh, we want a new breed of men before India can be cleansed of her disease.” —Sarojini Naidu.
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Vijay Mallya: Not a TGIF guy
“I’m not a T.G.I.F. guy. I get off a plane at 2 o’clock in the morning and I’m looking for my secretary because I want to know what’s going on.” —Vijay Mallya.
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Kehinde Wiley: Context
“There is a political and racial context behind everything that I do. Not always because I design it that way, or because I want it that way, but rather because it’s just the way people look at the work of an African-American artist in this country.” —Kehinde Wiley.
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James Snook: Message for companies
“My message for companies that think they haven’t been attacked is: ‘You’re not looking hard enough.’” – James Snook.
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R A Dickson: Love your enemies
“Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.” —R.A. Dickson.
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Mike Pence: Presidency
“The presidency is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often than not, for good or for ill, it sets the tone for the other branches and spurs the expectations of the people.” —Mike Pence.
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Daniel Kahneman: Halo effect
“If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That’s the ‘halo effect.’ Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.” —Daniel Kahneman.
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Charles Darwin: Most responsive to change
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” —-Charles Darwin.
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Winston Churchill: Books of quotations
“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.” – – – Winston Churchill.
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Gigi Hadid: Stalk fans
“I usually stalk fans because I think they’re really funny on Twitter. They don’t know it, but I’ll just go through their timelines, and if something is happening in the media, I always read fan accounts instead of the news because they have all the info and make the funniest jokes about it, so that’s…
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James Blunt: Feelings
“I found in my writing that I could express emotions that, as an everyday person, I have no interest in expressing: these strange things that girls talk about called feelings.” —James Blunt.
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Chesley Sullenberger: We owe it to our passengers
“My message going forward is that I want to remind everyone in the aviation industry – especially those who manage aviation companies and those who regulate aviation – that we owe it to our passengers to keep learning how to do it better.” —Chesley Sullenberger.
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Captain A G Lamplugh: Aviation
“Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect.” — Captain A. G. LAMPLUGH.
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Bruce Lee: Cup of water
“In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all of your preconceived fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is so useful? Because it is empty.” — Bruce Lee.
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Richard Branson: Freedom of movement
“I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.” —Richard Branson.
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Mike Pence: Donald Trump
“Donald Trump gets it: he’s the genuine article. He’s a doer in a game usually reserved for talkers. And when Donald Trump does his talking, he doesn’t tiptoe around the thousand new rules of political correctness.” – – – Mike Pence.
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Dayananda Saraswati: Fitness of pupil
“The fitness of the pupil is shown in his love for the acquisition of knowledge, his willingness to receive instruction, his reverence for learned and virtuous men, his attendance upon the teacher, and his execution of orders.” —Dayananda Saraswati.
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R Madhavan: How the team works
” When it comes to filmmaking, we have to deal with ego, anger, and a lot more; barring all these, how the team works towards the outcome matters. ” —R Madhavan.
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Paul Krugman: Politics
“Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.” —Paul Krugman.
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Hasan Minhaj: Angry optimist
“I’d rather be an angry optimist than an angry nihilist.” —Hasan Minhaj.
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Ivanka Trump: Life is a marathon
“Life is a marathon, not a sprint. It’s about taking a bigger-picture approach.” —Ivanka Trump.
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Laurie Metcalf: Directing and acting
“I’ve been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn’t make you a good director.” —Laurie Metcalf.
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Jeff Bezos: Lean into the future
” What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.…
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Charlie Munger: No master plan
“At Berkshire there has never been a master plan. Anyone who wanted to do it, we fired because it takes on a life of its own and doesn’t cover new reality. We want people taking into account new information.” —Charlie Munger.
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Jennifer Aniston: Damned
“You’re damned if you’re too thin and you’re damned if you’re too heavy. According to the press I’ve been both. Its impossible to satisfy everyone and I suggest we stop trying.” —Jennifer Aniston.
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Jennifer Garner: Nobody wants to hear a celebrity whine
“I know I live a charmed, beautiful life and nobody wants to hear a celebrity whine. The last thing I want to do is complain; I love what I do and I know every job comes with a downside.” —Jennifer Garner.
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Edward Snowden: Even if you’re not
“Even if you’re not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.” —Edward Snowden.
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Daniel Kahneman: Reasons and decisions
“We think, each of us, that we’re much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it’s the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we’ve already made the decision.” —Daniel Kahneman.
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Julian Assange: Capable, generous men
” Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims. ” —Julian Assange.
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Jennifer Garner: Baseball games are like soap operas
“I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.” —Jennifer Garner.
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Simon Sinek: Authenticity
“Authenticity is more than speaking. Authenticity is also about doing. Every decision we make says something about who we are.“ —Simon Sinek.
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Cardi B: Passion
“I have a passion for music, I love music. But I also have a passion for money and paying my bills.” — Cardi B.
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Anna Wintour: Take risks
“It’s very important to take risks. I think that research is very important, but in the end you have to work from your instinct and feeling and take those risks and be fearless. When I hear a company is being run by a team, my heart sinks, because you need to have that leader with…
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Jeff Bezos: Branding
“A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.” —Jeff Bezos.
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Rupi Kaur: Every time you tell your daughter
“Every time you tell your daughter you yell at her out of love you teach her to confuse anger with kindness which seems like a good idea till she grows up to trust men who hurt her cause they look so much like you.” —Rupi Kaur.
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Henri Frederic Amiel: Never decides
“The person who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he or she decides, never decides.” –Henri Frederic Amiel.
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Jennifer Garner: Flip side to it
“Well, you can’t be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there’s going to be a flip side to it.” —Jennifer Garner.
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Jennifer Aniston: Brick walls
“People who avoid the brick walls – all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.” —Jennifer Aniston.
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Johnny Weir: Nobody’s perfect
“Nobody gets lucky all the time. Nobody can win all the time. Nobody’s a robot. Nobody’s perfect.” —Johnny Weir.
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Sonam Kapoor: Style
“Style is an expression of your individuality. Who you are and what your mood is, is what you wear.” – – – Sonam Kapoor.
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Elon Musk: Mars
“If humanity doesn’t land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.” —Elon Musk.
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Helen George: Loneliness
“Everybody experiences loneliness. I’ve had times when I’ve been working away and not known anybody and you get a bit nervous around new people. I think loneliness is a killer of confidence. The thought of going out of your way to speak to someone. Especially living in cities, watching the big city get bigger and…
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Miley Cyrus: Stop giving them something to talk about
“You can’t stop people from talking about you, but you can stop giving them something to talk about.” —Miley Cyrus.
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Eric Clapton: Rest of the evening
“I’d love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?” —Eric Clapton.
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Charles Darwin: Ignorance
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.” —Charles Darwin.
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Sonakshi Sinha: Broken the mould
“I think I have broken the mould that actresses have to be extremely thin on screen. All those who are making my weight an issue just prove that people are jealous. These are people who have nothing to do in life except to stare at their computer screens and make comments on us.” —-Sonakshi Sinha.
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Sonam Kapoor: Imperfect rather than perfect
“I think every single imperfection adds to your beauty. I’d rather be imperfect than perfect.” —Sonam Kapoor.
