Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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…
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Momina Mustehsan: Compared to a maid
“Being compared to a maid is not insulting to me, it’s an honour, because you’re comparing me to a woman who goes out to work and earn a living.” —Momina Mustehsan, Pakistani singing sensation.
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Stephen Hawking: Three things to remember
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away. —Stephen Hawking.
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Elvis Presley: Truth
“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.” —Elvis Presley.
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David Carr: Résumé
“No one is going to give a damn about your résume; they want to see what you’ve made with your own little fingers.” —David Carr.
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Nicolas Cage: Off-kilter sense of humor
“I’ll speak for myself, but there’s a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor.” —Nicolas Cage.
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Tavi Gevinson: Procrastination
“The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option.” —Tavi Gevinson.
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Om Puri: Parallel cinema
“Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.” —Om Puri.
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Rowan Atkinson: Freedom
“To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.” —Rowan Atkinson.
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Charlie Munger: Don’t listen
“When any person offers you a chance to earn lots of money without risk, don’t listen to the rest of their sentence. Follow this and you’ll save yourself a lot of misery.” —Charlie Munger.
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Rowan Atkinson: Outlawing of insult
“The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.” —Rowan Atkinson.
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Marilyn Manson: Sin-and-repent cycle
“All the seven deadly sins are man’s true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you’re made to feel guilty for being human, then you’re going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can’t escape from.” —Marilyn Manson.
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Pierre Bourdieu: Entirely natural
“Every established order tends to make its own entirely arbitrary system seem entirely natural.” — Pierre Bourdieu.
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Max Eastman: Neutrality
“People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.” —Max Eastman, journalist and poet (4 Jan 1883-1969) .
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Lee Kuan Yew: History
“History does not repeat itself in the same way each time, but certain trends and consequences are constants. If you do not know history, you think short term. If you know history, you think medium and long term.” – Lee Kuan Yew.
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Om Puri: Theatre
“In theatre, you’ve got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven’t, you know you’ve almost lost them.” —Om Puri.
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Charlyne Yi: Being cynical
“Being cynical isn’t necessarily being negative or bitter. It’s a person who is wary of mistaking love for something that it’s not and getting their heart broken.” —Charlyne Yi.
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Mel Gibson: Number one fear
“You ask anybody what their number one fear is, and it’s public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale, and that’s what I’ve been through.” —Mel Gibson.
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Daniel Kahneman: Much too seriously
“We take the reasons that people give for their actions and beliefs, and our own reasons for our actions and beliefs, much too seriously.” -Daniel Kahneman.
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Simon Sinek: Leading
“Leading is not the same as being a leader. Leading means others are willing to follow, not because they have to, but because they want to.” —Simon Sinek.
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Isaac Asimov: Cult of ignorance
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”-Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer…
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Kate Bosworth: Little pressure
“To put as little pressure on the relationship you’re in is very important.” —Kate Bosworth.
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Isaac Asimov: Great annoyance
“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.” —Isaac Asimov.
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Marvin J Ashton: Be the one
“Be the one who nurtures and builds.Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart, one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.” —Marvin J Ashton.
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J D Salinger: Terrific friend
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.” —J.D. Salinger, writer (1 Jan 1919-2010) .
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Every day
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Christine Lagarde: Economic jargon
“I know this is economic jargon, but essentially, if you bring more women to the job market, you create value, it makes economic sense, and growth is improved. There are countries where it’s almost a no-brainer: Korea, Japan, soon to be China, certainly Germany, Italy. Why? Because they have an aging population.” —Christine Lagarde.
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Paul Boese: Forgiveness
“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.” —Paul Boese.
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John Denver: Words to go by
“We don’t teach kids how to feel, we don’t give them the words to go by.” —John Denver.
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Unknown: Being wrong
“Sometimes we choose to be wrong, not because we really are wrong, but because we value our relationship more than our pride.” —Unknown.
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Simon Sinek: More work
“If we push people away because of work, then when we’re finally free, there will be no friends left … just plenty of time for more work.” —Simon Sinek.
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Sue Grafton: Flyweights of the world
“It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.” —Sue Grafton.
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Robert Muller: Untold peace and happiness
“To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.” —Robert Muller.
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Rajesh Khanna: With a smile
“Luck may run out and the public, which is so kind, may turn cruel but when that happens I’ll go down with a smile” ― Rajesh Khanna.
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Will Durrant: Map of human character
“It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The present is merely the past rolled up and concentrated in this second of time. You, too, are your past; often your face is your autobiography; you are what you are because…
