Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Mary Tyler Moore: Really strangers
“Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you’re really strangers.” —Mary Tyler Moore.
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Unknown: Forgiving and moving on
“Forgiving you is my gift to you. Moving on is my gift to myself.” —Unknown.
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Woodrow Wilson: Brains
“I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow, and I have borrowed a lot.” —Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, Nobel laureate (28 Dec 1856-1924).
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Seneca: Wants
“Nature’s wants are small, while those of opinion are limitless.” —Seneca (Letters from a Stoic).
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Woodrow Wilson: Against the stream
“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.” —Woodrow Wilson.
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Dennis Waitley: Find the answer
“Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving towards finding the answer.” —Dennis Waitley.
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Epicurus: Nature or opinion
“If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; if you live according to opinion, you will never be rich.” —Epicurus (via Seneca).
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Salman Khan: Working very hard
“Have you seen a duck gliding smoothly on water? Does it ever look like it is paddling furiously underneath the surface? I don’t have to show that I am working very hard. ” —Salman Khan.
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Louis Pasteur: Barren skepticism
“Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.” —Louis Pasteur.
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Daniel Burnham: Make no little plans
“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood. … Make big plans; aim high in hope and work.” —Daniel Burnham, architect and urban designer.
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Ben Franklin: Continual Christmas
“Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, no example sway thee, no persuasion move thee, to do any thing which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollily; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.” ––Ben Franklin.
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George Michael: Ego
“It takes so much strength to say to your ego, ‘You know what? You’re going to keep me lonely, so I have to ignore you.’” —George Michael.
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Mao Zedong: Politics and war
“Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.” —Mao Zedong.
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Logan Pearsall Smith: Test of vocation
“The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.” —Logan Pearsall Smith, writer.
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Rod Serling: Tools of conquest
“The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy; and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of…
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Isaac Newton: Not understanding
“A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.” —Isaac Newton.
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Walter Isaacson: Be interested in everything
“For me, Benjamin Franklin and Leonardo da Vinci have the same life lesson, which is: be interested in everything…. If you can be interested in everything, if you can be cross-disciplinary, then you can see the patterns of our cosmos, and how we connect to them. And that’s the magic of Ben Franklin, but even…
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Charlie Munger: Worldly wisdom
“Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group … then to hell with them.” —– Charlie Munger.
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Anil Kapoor: Feel-good film
“If you make a feelgood film which is complete candyfloss, where everybody is good and everything is beautiful and hunky dory, it won’t appeal to the audience.” —Anil Kapoor.
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Saint Ignatius: Bodily exercise
“Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.” —Saint Ignatius.
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Srinivasa Ramanujan: No meaning
“Sir, an equation has no meaning for me unless it expresses a thought of GOD.” —Srinivasa Ramanujan.
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Harry Shearer: Absolute
“If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?” —Harry Shearer.
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N K Jemisin: Fear
“Some people react to fear by seeking security, change, control. The rest accept the change and just go on about their lives.” —N.K. Jemisin,writer.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Be on our own
“We must be our own before we can be another’s.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Rebecca West: Doormat
“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.” —Rebecca West, author and journalist (21 Dec 1892-1983).
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Eric Hoffer: Species of vigor
“They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something…
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Jane Fonda: Feminism
“Feminism is not just about women; it’s about letting all people lead fuller lives.” —Jane Fonda.
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Robert Brault: Friends will adjust
“Do what you must, And your friends will adjust.” -Robert Brault.
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Anthony Bourdain: Non-American
“No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.” —Anthony Bourdain, chef and television personality.
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Jane Fonda: Repetition
“We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.” —Jane Fonda.
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Edwin Abbott Abbott: Divided in opinion
“Men are divided in opinion as to the facts. And even granting the facts, they explain them in different ways.” —Edwin Abbott Abbott, schoolmaster and theologian (20 Dec 1838-1926).
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Kareem Abdul-Jaffar: Willingness to sacrifice
“The good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.” – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
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George Bernard Shaw: The truth
“The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.” —George Bernard Shaw.
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Bill Walsh: Proofreaders
“Machines aren’t replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper.” —Bill Walsh.
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Bill Walsh: Writing headlines
“Writing headlines is a specialty – there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn’t write a headline to save their lives.” —Bill Walsh.
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Titus Livius: Circumstances and plans
“Men’s plans should be regulated by the circumstances, not circumstances by the plans.” —Titus Livius, historian.
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Charles Dickens: My business
“Business!” cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. “Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!” —Charles Dickens, novelist (1812-1870) [in A Christmas Carol, published on…
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Simon Sinek: Incentives
“When the incentives offered prioritize growth over stability, we successfully build large, unstable organizations.” —Simon Sinek.
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Riteish Deshmukh: Beauty of a relationship
“The beauty of a relationship is when you get used to a person; it is not sudden. It is just a process, and you don’t realise when love happens.” —Riteish Deshmukh.
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Brad Pitt: Beast
“Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.” —Brad Pitt.
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Jean Paul Sartre: Authentic
“If you seek authenticity for authenticity’s sake you are no longer authentic.” -Jean Paul Sartre.
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Heinz Wolff: Eyewash
“The only real form of pollution is people. Any ecological system which does not include the reduction or stopping of growth of the population is eyewash.” —Heinz Wolff.
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Ludwig van Beethoven: Virtue
“Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.” —Ludwig van Beethoven.
