Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Rob Schneider: Rightfully so
“Women always feel like they’re being stared at and judged, and rightfully so.” —Rob Schneider.
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Simon Sinek: Great leaders
“Great leaders know that the total knowledge of those around them is vastly greater than everything they know alone.” —Simon Sinek.
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W C Fields: No use being a damn fool about it
“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.” — W.C. Fields
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F J P: The Boy Who Can’t
The Boy Who Can’t” From Boy’s Life, c. 1920 By F. J. P. Source: The Art of Manliness website. Hey, fellows, come closer, let each of us name The worst kind of nuisance – we’ll call it a game. “I vote for the fellow who’s never on time!” “The fellow who always would borrow a dime!”…
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John Adams: Power
“Power always thinks… that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws.” —John Adams.
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Simon Sinek: Sense of purpose
“A sense of purpose comes from feeling useful – feeling that our efforts contribute to something bigger than ourselves.” —Simon Sinek.
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Christopher Reeve: Hero
“I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” —Christopher Reeve, actor and director.
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Winona Ryder: Feeling confused
When you finally accept that it’s OK not to have answers and it’s OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being. —Winona Ryder.
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Simon Sinek: Giving
“The more one gives, the better one feels; and the better one feels, the easier it becomes to give.” —Simon Sinek.
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Juvenal: Philosophy
“Philosophy, by degrees, peels off most of our follies and vices, first shows us what’s right.” —Juvenal.
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Bill Gates: Greatest source of learning
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” —Bill Gates.
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Simon Sinek: Value
“Value is a perception, not a calculation. Value is something people feel, not something we tell them they get.” —Simon Sinek.
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Warren Buffett: The ones we let in
“We rule out people 90% of the time. Maybe we’re wrong sometimes, but what’s important is the ones we let in.” -Warren Buffett.
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Niccolo Paganini: Not handsome
“I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to my feet.” —Niccolo Paganini.
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Gillian Anderson: Be of service
“Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.” —Gillian Anderson.
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Hillary Clinton: Forgiveness
Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it’s a personal life or a national life. Hilary Clinton.
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Simon Sinek: Becoming leaders
“We become leaders when we accept the responsibility to protect those in our care.” —Simon Sinek.
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Jean Piaget: Creativity
“If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.” —Jean Piaget.
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Pablo Picasso: Dichotomy
“Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.” —Pablo Picasso.
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Thich Nhat Hanh: Lettuce
“When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look into the reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other…
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Simon Sinek: Great leaders
“Great leaders give everyone something to believe in, not something to do.” —Simon Sinek.
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Roman Abramovich: Childhood
“To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can’t compare things: one eats carrots, one eats candy, both taste good. As a child you cannot tell the difference.” —Roman Abramovich.
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Simon Sinek: Culture
“A culture is strong when people work with each other, for each other. A culture is weak when people work against each other, for themselves.” —Simon Sinek.
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Samuel Butler: Inspiration
“Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person.” —Samuel Butler, writer.
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Samuel Johnson: Absurdity of conduct
“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.” —Samuel Johnson, writer.
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Freeman Dyson: Technology
Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God’s gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.” – Freeman Dyson.
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Ryan Reynolds: Signature fragrance
“I think a fragrance is more of a signature than even what you wear – something you’ll remember more down the road than a shirt.” —Ryan Reynolds.
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Paula Scher: Mistakes
“It’s through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.” —Paula Scher.
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Simon Sinek: People, not ideas
“We should invest in people, not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people, and good people can always make a bad idea better.” —Simon Sinek.
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Catherine Deneuve: Love is suffering
“Love is suffering. One side always loves more.” —Catherine Deneuve.
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Lauren McCarthy: No giant textbook
“The web changes so fast, and the ultimate thing we are trying to teach is feeling comfortable with experimentation. Because on the web, there’s no one giant textbook you can read and feel like, ‘I am all set to master this.’” – – -Lauren McCarthy.
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Voltaire: Optimism
“Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.” —Voltaire.
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Simon Sinek: Great leaders
“Great leaders don’t try to be perfect. Great leaders try to be themselves. And that’s what makes them great.” —Simon Sinek.
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Sanskrit: Very life of life
“Look to this day, for it is life, the very life of life. In its brief course lie all the verities and realities of your existence: the bliss of growth, the glory of action, the splendour of beauty. For yesterday is already a dream and tomorrow is only a vision; but today, well lived, makes…
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Snoop Dogg: Choices of people
“The most important decision I’ve made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, ‘Come on everybody, we made it.’ Then I had to realize we didn’t make it. I made it.” —Snoop Dogg.
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Tren Griffin: Constant work and diligence
“To be a successful investor, a person must regularly devote the necessary time and effort. Even if you once felt that you knew a lot about investing, it does not mean your skills are current. Maintaining a circle of competence requires constant work and diligence.” —Tren Griffin.
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Simon Sinek: Work
“Give people a reason to come to work, not just a place to go to work.” —Simon Sinek.
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Benjamin Franklin: Closing constitutional speech
Benjamin Franklin’s Closing Speech at the Constitutional Convention, September 17, 1787 Mr President, I confess that I do not entirely approve this Constitution at present, but sir, I am not sure I shall never approve it: for having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to…
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John Lithgow: Academics
“Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.” —John Lithgow.
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Simon Sinek: Life’s not a competition
“Life is not a competition, it’s a game. It’s not about winning or losing, it’s about all the fun we can have before it ends.” —Simon Sinek.
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Charlie Munger: Continuously practice
“All skills attenuate with disuse. I was a whiz at calculus until age twenty, after which the skill was soon obliterated by total nonuse. The right antidote to such a loss is to make use of the functional equivalent of the aircraft simulator employed in pilot training. This allows a pilot to continuously practice all…
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Jean-Claude Van Damme: Easy
“You have to believe what you say, and if you believe what you are saying, then acting is easy.” —Jean Claude Van Damme.
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Simon Sinek: Pursuit
“Pursue the thing inside us, and others will help us. Pursue the things outside us, and others will compete with us.” —Simon Sinek.
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Seneca: Great of soul
The person who has practiced philosophy as a cure for the self becomes great of soul, filled with confidence, invincible—and greater as you draw near.” -Seneca.
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Dolph Lundgren: Keep it alive
“Your body’s made to run, to walk, to trek long distances and carry things, work in a forest, and hunt animals. You have to keep it alive to function.” —Dolph Lundgren.
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Epicetus: Practice and training
“That’s why the philosophers warn us not to be satisfied with mere learning, but to add practice and then training. For as time passes we forget what we learned and end up doing the opposite, and hold opinions the opposite of what we should.” -Epictetus.
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Tim Robbins: Self-censorship
“I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you’re afraid to the point where you censor yourself.” —Tim Robbins.
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Thoreau: Practically
“To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school…it is to solve some of the problems of life not only theoretically, but practically.” —Thoreau.
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Virgil: The rub, the task
“It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air – there’s the rub, the task.” —Virgil.
