Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Sushmita Sen: Essence of a woman
“Just being a woman is God’s gift. The origin of a child is a mother, a woman. She shows a man what sharing, caring, and loving is all about. That is the essence of a woman.” —Sushmita Sen.
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Meg Ryan: Change
“People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn’t want to happen has happened.” —Meg Ryan.
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Jake Abel: Competing friends
“I think it is possible to be friends even if you’re competing. You know, there’s so many guys in rooms that try to psych each other out, and it doesn’t work. It only hinders their work.” —Jake Abel.
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Anne Bradstreet: Sweet words
Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh but too much gluts the stomach.” Anne Bradstreet
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Charles Darwin: Serviceable
“I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it. Indeed, I have had no choice but to act in this manner, for with the exception of…
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Sophie Marceau: Acting versus writing
“Acting is contained – you act for three months, then leave it – but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.” —Sophie Marceau.
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Herbert Spencer: Misused words
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.” Herbert Spencer
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Maggie Gyllenhaal: All day
“A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you’re rehearsing, you’re working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you’re doing the play, you have all day.” —Maggie Gyllenhaal.
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May Sargon: Dangerous words
The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.” May Sarton
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Marianne Moore: Pleasing
“Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.” —Marianne Moore.
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Jalaluddin Rumi: Raise your words
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” Jalaluddin Rumi.
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Prince Charles: Jolly good disaster
“There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.” —Prince Charles.
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Robert Fulghum: Children
“Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” —Robert Fulghum.
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Blaise Pascal: Virtue
“The virtue of a person is measured not by his outstanding efforts, but by his everyday behavior.” —Blaise Pascal.
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Leonard Cohen: Poetry
“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.” —Leonard Cohen.
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Epicetus: What to do to be
“First, say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.” —Epictetus, philosopher.
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George S Patton: Foolish and wrong
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.” —George S. Patton.
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Kris Gale: Value
“Embrace simplicity in your product and in your code. The value is in what gets used, not what gets built.”—Kris Gale
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Steve Allen: Utterly bizarre enclave
“Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they…
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Paraclesus: Medicine
“Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.” —Paraclesus.
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Kris Gale: Simplicity
“Embrace simplicity in your product and in your code. The value is in what gets used, not what gets built.”—Kris Gale.
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Martin Luther: Responsible
“You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.” —Martin Luther.
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Alexis De Tocqueville: Life
“Life is neither suffering nor pleasure, but the business which we have to do, and which we have to finish honestly, up to our life’s end.” -Alexis De Tocqueville
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Hedy Lamarr: Men and women
“It’s funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.” —Hedy Lamarr.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau: Silence
“A person who knows little likes to talk, and one who knows much mostly keeps silent. This is because a person who knows little thinks that everything he knows is important, and wants to tell everyone. A person who knows much also knows that there is much more he doesn’t know. That’s why he speaks…
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Gordon Ramsay: Game over
“The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.” —Gordon Ramsay.
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Christian Nestell Bovee: Two sources of light
“The light in the world comes principally from two sources — the sun, and the student’s lamp.” —Christian Nestell Bovee, writer.
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Marie Curie: Understand
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” —Marie Curie.
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Confucius: Wisdom
“A wise man looks for everything inside of himself; a madman seeks for everything in others.” -Confucius.
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Maria Shriver: Replaceability
“At work, you’re replaceable… but as a parent, you’re irreplaceable.” —Maria Shriver.
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Voltaire: Only motivation
“Many stupid things are uttered by people whose only motivation is to say something original.” —Voltaire.
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Guru Nanak: Asceticism
“Asceticism doesn’t lie in mere words; He is an ascetic who treats everyone alike. Asceticism doesn’t lie in visiting burial places; it lies not in wandering about nor in bathing at places of pilgrimage. Asceticism is to remain pure amidst impurities.” —Guru Nanak.
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Corin Nemec: Art
“Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.” —Corin Nemec.
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Leo Tolstoy: To be a clever person
“If you want to be a clever person, you have to learn how to ask cleverly, how to listen attentively, how to respond quietly, and how to stop talking when there is nothing more to say.” —Leo Tolstoy (A Calendar of Wisdom).
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Matthew McConaughey: Jealousy
“Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.” —Matthew McConaughey.
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Janelle Monae: Enemy of greatness
“Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable. I didn’t have to become perfect because I’ve learned throughout my journey that perfection is the enemy of greatness.” —Janelle Monae.
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Charles Bronson: No friends
“I don’t have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.” —Charles Bronson.
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Lord Bacon: Philosophy
“In philosophy the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected or reverted upon himself. Out of which several inquiries there do arise three knowledges: divine philosophy, natural philosophy, and human philosophy or humanity. For all things are marked and stamped with this triple character, of the…
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Shah Rukh Khan: Cinema in India
“Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can’t escape it.” —Shah Rukh Khan.
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Benjamin Hoff: Trying too hard
“And when you try too hard, it doesn’t work. Try grabbing something quickly and precisely with a tensed-up arm; then relax and try it again. Try doing something with a tense mind. The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard – one that thinks too…
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Toni Collette: Opening up
“People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with other people. When you connect with other people, you connect with something in yourself. It makes you feel happy. And yet it’s so scary – it makes people feel vulnerable and unsafe.” —Toni Collette.
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Leo Babauta: Simplicity
“Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.” —Leo Babauta, writer.
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Simon Sinek: True friend
“A true friend is someone with whom protocol is no longer necessary.” —Simon Sinek.
