Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Kevin Costner: Willingness
“If you’re willing to tell somebody that you love them, are you also willing to say you’re sorry? You need to, even when you think you’re in the right.” —Kevin Costner.
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Jonas Salk: Greatest reward
“The greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.” —Jonas Salk, medical researcher.
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Michelle Obama: Proud American tradition
“If you or your parents are immigrants, know that you are part of a proud American tradition — the infusion of new cultures, talents and ideas, generation after generation, that has made us the greatest country on earth.” —Michelle Obama, lawyer, First Lady of the US (b. 17 Jan 1964) .
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Mohnish Pabrai: Fish where the fish are
“Charlie Munger says that he wants to shoot fish in a barrel, but only after all the water has been let out…. When I look at the people that I would normally think of as very good investors, basically, those folks are really good investors but they aren’t fishing where the fish are. And it…
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Al Capone: What you are going to remember about me
“Don’t mistake my kindness for weakness. I am kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going to remember about me.” —Al Capone.
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Steve Maraboli: Re-directed
“Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.” —Steve Maraboli.
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Daniel Kahneman: A lot simpler and more certain world
“My perspective…is that we’re really not surprised nearly often enough, because one of the things that really happens, as soon as an event occurs, we have a story. That’s automatic, that System 1 generates stories. It looks for causes, it looks for stories, and it generates its tentative stories that, if endorsed by System 2,…
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Dolores O’Riordan: Unborn, human
“The evidence I see tells me the unborn is a human being.” —Dolores O’Riordan.
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Debbie Allen: Clothes back in those days
“The clothes back in those days were made so much better than clothes are today. They actually took time to make clothes to fit a woman’s body. Today they make clothes that fit sizes, so it stretches to fit this and that.” —Debbie Allen.
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Carl Karcher: Ones buying your product
“Whenever you’re successful you owe that success to the people in the community, because they are the ones buying your product.” —Carl Karcher.
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Sade Adu: Whole purpose of music
“Once a song’s out there, it’s no longer mine. And that’s the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.” —Sade Adu.
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Nayyirah Waheed: You not wanting me
“You not wanting me was the beginning of me wanting myself thank you” ― Nayyirah Waheed.
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Martin Luther King Jr: Civil war within our lives
“There is something of a civil war going on within all of our lives. There is a recalcitrant South of our soul revolting against the North of our soul. And there is this continual struggle within the very structure of every individual life.” —Martin Luther King Jr.
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Adam Serwer: Convenient trick
“It is a convenient trick to rob a person of all they have, even their own body, and then mock them for their poverty, and blame it on their nature.” —Adam Serwer, writer and editor [Read the full article] .
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Martin Luther King Jr: Right time
“The time is always right to do the right thing.” —Martin Luther King Jr.
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Albert Schweitzer: Circle of compassion
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. -Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, musician, Nobel laureate (14 Jan 1875-1965) .
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Martin Luther King Jr: Keep moving forward
“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” —Martin Luther King Jr.
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Nayyirah Waheed: Sadness
“expect sadness like you expect rain. both, cleanse you.” ― Nayyirah Waheed.
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George Orwell: Impudently twisting the facts
“We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.” — George Orwell.
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Mahasweta Devi: Small things. Small dreams.
“The only way to counter globalization is to have a plot of land in some central place, keep it covered in grass, let there be a single tree, even a wild tree. Let your son’s tricycle lie there. Let some poor child come and play, let a bird come and use the tree. Small things.…
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Jocko Willink: Accountability
“From a leadership perspective, I always say that accountability is a tool, but it should not be your leading tool. I’ve worked with a lot of companies along the way…where their answer to every problem that they’re having is that they just need to have more accountability. And it sounds great because, let’s face it,…
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Graham & Dodd: Not an easy matter
“It may seem a comparatively easy matter to determine that one enterprise is more promising than another. But it is by no means so easy to establish that one common stock at a given price is clearly preferable to another stock at its current price.” – Benjamin Graham and David Dodd (Security Analysis: Sixth Edition).
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Andy Rooney: Opening and closing doors
“The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort – the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing – the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.” —Andy Rooney.
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Albert Schweitzer: Example
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” —Albert Schweitzer.
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Nayyirah Waheed: Remember
“remember, you were a writer before you ever put pen to paper. just because you were not writing externally. does not mean you were not writing internally.” ― Nayyirah Waheed,
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Orlando Bloom: Failures and fiascos
“Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.” —Orlando Bloom.
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Rakesh Sharma: My mental boundaries expanded
“My mental boundaries expanded when I viewed the Earth against a black and uninviting vacuum, yet my country’s rich traditions had conditioned me to look beyond man-made boundaries and prejudices. One does not have to undertake a space flight to come by this feeling.” —Rakesh Sharma.
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Geoffrey Canada: Neutralize and cauterize
“Convincing people to give your way a try will work if you neutralize — and sometimes you have to cauterize — the ones who really are against change. They’re the kind of person who, if you tell them its raining outside, they’ll fight you tooth and nail.” —Geoffrey Canada.
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Jill Wagner: No type
“I don’t have a type. I’ve dated so many different types, different personalities, different looks — from athletic to very non-athletic. The only thing I have to have is someone who is really motivated in life and challenges me. If I don’t have that, I get bored.” —Jill Wagner.
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Nayyirah Waheed: Attention
“i don’t pay attention to the world ending. it has ended for me many times and began again in the morning.” ― Nayyirah Waheed, Salt.
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Rush Limbaugh: Impossible to not offend
“It’s impossible to go through life not offending people. All you have to do is basically have an opinion on anything, and you’re gonna offend people.” —Rush Limbaugh.
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Kirstie Alley: No matter what religion you are
“When push comes to shove, it ain’t the science that’s going to lift you up – it’s the belief, the spiritual side of life, that’s going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.” —Kirstie Alley.
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Nayyirah Waheed: Love that will be ready
“Someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. They can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join you on the bridge. And whatever their reasons you must leave. Because you never ever have to inspire anyone to meet you on the bridge. You…
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Catherine Deneuve: Not a macho attack
“Rape is a crime, but trying to seduce someone, even persistently or cack-handedly, is not—nor is being gentlemanly a macho attack.” —Catherine Deneuve.
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Warren Buffett: Accounting
“Accounting is but an aid to business thinking, not a substitute for it.” – Warren Buffett .
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Charlie Munger: Economics is not physics
“[The economics profession] has been confident in various formulas, but economics is not physics. The same formula that works in one decade doesn’t work in the next. Economics is a difficult subject, and a lot of overconfidence has been removed from the economics profession over the last 20 years. They’ve been really surprised.” – Charlie…
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Alexander Hamilton: No agency in planning it
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike. —Alexander Hamilton.
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Nayyirah Waheed: Desire
“Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you. Read it over. Again. Let those words resonate in your mind.” ― Nayyirah Waheed.
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Hrithik Roshan: How bad I can be
“I am glad I have the intelligence to understand what is happening to me. If I allow myself to get affected by all this hype, I’ll stunt my growth as an actor and be damned for life. I know that I still have a long way to go before I can even aspire to equal…
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David Robinson: Write a blog post
“When you’ve written the same code 3 times, write a function When you’ve given the same in-person advice 3 times, write a blog post” — David Robinson (@drob) November 9, 2017.
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Simone de Beauvoir: Not born a woman
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. —Simone de Beauvoir.
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John Acton: Minorities
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. —John Acton.
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Simone de Beauvoir: Truth rewarded me
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth — and truth rewarded me. -Simone de Beauvoir, author and philosopher (9 Jan 1908-1986)
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Mohnish Pabrai: Promised land
“There’s a saying…’Take a simple idea and take it seriously.’ And I think that’s a really important thing to keep in mind. And I think when you look at lots and lots of extremely successful people right at the pinnacle of their careers, when you break it down, that quote is at the epicenter of…
