Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Meryl Streep: No normal
“This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There’s only change and resistance to it and then more change.” —Meryl Streep.
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Virginia Woolf: Beauty of the world
“The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.” —Virginia Woolf.
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Ashwin Sanghi: Improving humankind
“Humankind would improve if we concentrated less on being human and more on being kind.” —Ashwin Sanghi.
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Andre Gide: Better to be hated
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” —Andre Gide.
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Hillary Clinton: Confidential communications
“In almost every profession – whether it’s law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business – people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.” —Hillary Clinton.
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Tom Hanks: Meryl Streep
“I’m in awe of Meryl Streep. I was afraid of Meryl Streep. I do not know what to say to Meryl Streep.” —Tom Hanks.
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Ursula K Le Guin: Distrust everything I say
“I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.” —Ursula K Le Guin.
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Meryl Streep: You don’t have to be famous
“You don’t have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.” —Meryl Streep.
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Heath Ledger: Boring choices
“If you make decisions based upon people’s reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.” —Heath Ledger.
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Miriam Pastor: Design as a method
“We should learn to bring design as a method that is there to serve the community, not to evangelize it with our one and only truth.”—Miriam Pastor.
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King Frederick II the Great: Merely a hat
“A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.” —King Frederick II the Great.
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Vicki Baum: Marriage
“Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings.” —Vicki Baum.
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Lemony Snicket: Rest of our lives
“If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.” —Lemony Snicket.
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Randy Pausch: Brick walls
“The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough.” —Randy Pausch, professor.
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Hugh Masekela: Campaigns and promises
“When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things.” —Hugh Masekela.
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Stendhal: Same interests
“The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.” —Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), novelist (23 Jan 1783-1842) .
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John D Rockefeller: When blood is running in the streets
“The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.” —John D. Rockefeller.
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Dolores O’Riordan: Abortion belittles women
“I am in no position to judge other women, you know. But I mean, why did she get pregnant? It’s not good for women to go through the procedure [abortion] and have something living sucked out of their bodies. It belittles women. Even though some women say, ‘Oh, I don’t mind to have one,’ every…
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Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: Half its interest
“Life loses half its interest if there is no struggle—if there are no risks to be taken.” —Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
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Michael Tiffany: Ad fraud botnets
“Ad fraud botnets are being used to inflate the web views all across the internet. It looks as if there is more browsing happening than there actually is.” – Michael Tiffany.
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Jeanne Moreau: Football and women
“Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.” —Jeanne Moreau.
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Janis Joplin: I go home alone
“On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.” —Janis Joplin, singer-songwriter (19 Jan 1943-1970).
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Tom Petty: Five percent of the sound
“I think that if people realize that with an mp3, you’re only getting five percent of the sound that’s there. But when you hear the entire thing… I think it would save the music business. It’s such a drastic change.” —-Tom Petty.
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Sonam Kapoor: Sanitary napkins
“Sanitary napkins are packed like bombs; they are wrapped inside newspapers in black packets. Mothers don’t broach the subject, schools don’t instruct their girls about it. Grandmothers forbade us from entering temples on certain days of the month.” —Sonam Kapoor.
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John Donne: No man is an island
“No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were;…
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Margaret Thatcher: Economists travel on infrastructure
“You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.” —Margaret Thatcher.
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Marilyn French: Pebbles, not mountains
“Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.” —Marilyn French.
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Tom Petty: They can’t afford the music
“It’s funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can’t afford the music.” —Tom Petty.
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John Hurt: Honesty to the nth degree
“I think love can be really tough. Because it involves ultimately an honesty to the nth degree that you are capable of. Once said, you’ve lost your deposit. It’s best if you don’t say it.” —John Hurt.
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Lord Byron: Love and friendship
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship. —Lord Byron.
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Unknown: Afraid
“We are always afraid to ask because we aren’t afraid of the answer but the feeling of rejection.” —Unknown.
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Paul Bocuse: New recipe
“If an architect makes a mistake, he grows ivy to cover it. If a doctor makes a mistake, he covers it with soil. If a cook makes a mistake, he covers it with some sauce and says it is a new recipe.” —Paul Bocuse.
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Paulo Coelho: Patience
“Patience is not about waiting, but how we act when things take longer than we expect.” — Paulo Coelho.
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Robert J Shiller: Finance
“Finance is not merely about making money. It’s about achieving our deep goals and protecting the fruits of our labor. It’s about stewardship and, therefore, about achieving the good society.” —Robert J. Shiller.
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Publilius Syrus: Opportunity lost
“The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.” —Publilius Syrus.
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Christian Dior: Sure instincts
“Women, with their sure instincts, realized that my intention was to make them not just more beautiful but also happier.” —Christian Dior.
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Benny Hill: Cut the odds
“The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.” —Benny Hill.
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Tama J Kieves: Limitations
“We live in a world that worships limitations” ― Tama J. Kieves, This Time I Dance!: Creating the Work You Love.
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Blythe Masters: Blockchain technology
“Blockchain technology represents a generational opportunity to mutualize database infrastructure across entities within financial services. What that translates into is an enormous cost-saving, risk-reducing, and capital-enhancing opportunity.” —Blythe Masters.
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Hedy Lamarr: Just think of the job
“I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.” —Hedy Lamarr.
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Federico Fellini: Hype
“Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you’ve made is worth the misery of having to review it.” —Federico Fellini.
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Tama J Kieves: Closed door
“I know that when a door closes, it can feel like all doors are closing. A rejection letter can feel like everyone will reject us. But a closed door leads to clarity. It’s really an arrow. Because we cannot go through that door, we will go somewhere else. That somewhere else is your true life.”…
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David Marno: Attention and distraction
“It is reasonable to ask whether attention and distraction are simply two morally and culturally charged terms referring to what in reality is the same behaviour. We label this behaviour distraction when we disapprove of its objects and objectives; and we call it attention when we approve of them.” —David Marno.
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Warren Buffett: Growth and value
“..business growth, per se, tells us little about value. It’s true that growth often has a positive impact on value, sometimes one of spectacular proportions. But such an effect is far from certain…. Growth benefits investors only when the business in point can invest at incremental returns that are enticing – in other words, only…
