Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Don Johnson: Famously infamous
“Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.” —Don Johnson.
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Margaret Chase Smith: Basic principles of Americanism
“Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations are all too frequently those who, by our own words and acts, ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism: The right to criticize; The right to hold unpopular beliefs; The right to protest; The right of independent thought.” —Margaret Chase Smith,…
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Simon Sinek: Good friends
“Good friends make us better people. They cheer us on when we hit bottom and keep us humble when we reach the top.” —Simon Sinek.
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Angelina Jolie: A way of your own
“Some people say you are going the wrong way, when it’s simply a way of your own.” -Angelina Jolie
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Simon Sinek: Curiosity
“Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there’s room for improvement.” —Simon Sinek.
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Gustave Flaubert: Splendid
“It’s splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your imagination and make them pop like chestnuts.” —Gustave Flaubert, novelist (12 Dec 1821-1880).
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Taylor Swift: Red
“Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.” —Taylor Swift.
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Taylor Swift: Can’t even be considered
“If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.” —Taylor Swift.
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Simon Sinek: Right experience versus right person
“Weak companies hire the right experience to do the job. Strong companies hire the right person to join their team.” —Simon Sinek.
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Kurt Cobain: Wanting to be someone else
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.” -Kurt Cobain.
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Simon Sinek: Connect
“Remember to connect with people now and then. In fact, pick up the phone, right now, and call a friend for no other reason than to say hi” —Simon Sinek.
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Naguib Mahfouz: Clever or wise?
“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.” -Naguib Mahfouz, writer, Nobel laureate (11 Dec 1911-2006).
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John Kerry: Consequences
“The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.” —John Kerry.
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Steve Maraboli: Society
“Don’t look for society to give you permission to be yourself.” -Steve Maraboli
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Steve Jobs: Focus
“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I have…
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Emily Dickinson: Behaviour
“Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.” —Emily Dickinson.
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Cyril Connolly: Write for yourself
“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.” —Cyril Connolly.
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Simon Sinek: Try to empathize
“We must all try to empathize before we criticize. Ask someone what’s wrong before telling them they are wrong.” —Simon Sinek.
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Eric Hoffer: No substitute for time
“It has been my experience that there is no substitute for time where thinking is concerned. Why is it so? The answer seems to be that in many cases to think means to be able to allow the mind to stray from the task at hand. The mind must be able to be ‘elsewhere.’ This…
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Jim Morrison: Expose yourself
“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.” —Jim Morrison.
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Eleanor Roosevelt: Criticized anyway
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.” -Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Kim Basinger: Balloon with a string
“You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they’re going to write in whatever clever manner they desire.” —Kim Basinger.
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Simon Sinek: Struggles
Our struggles are the short-term steps we must take on our way to long-term success. —Simon Sinek.
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Leonardo da Vinci: Practice and theory
“Those who are in love with practice without theoretical knowledge are like the sailor who goes onto a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whither he is going…. Practice must always be founded on sound theory.” – Leonardo da Vinci.
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Patrice O’Neal: I don’t like mediocre
“I like to be loved or hated – I don’t like mediocre. So I’d rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.” —Patrice O’Neal.
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Oliver James: Do your own thing
“Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for.” -Oliver James
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Simon Sinek: Grow together
If every member of a team doesn’t grow together, they will grow apart. —Simon Sinek.
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Alfred Eisenstaedt: Creative spirit
“Once the amateur’s naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.” —Alfred Eisenstaedt.
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Simon Sinek: Actionable vision
Your vision is only actionable if you say it out loud. If you keep it to yourself, it will remain a figment of your imagination. —Simon Sinek.
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Walt Disney: Children are people
“I don’t believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn’t treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should. Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want…
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Walt Disney: Unique
“The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.” —Walt Disney.
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Coco Chanel: Be someone
“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.” -Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel
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Shashi Kapoor: Escapism
“Nowadays I am not keen to see films as they deal in escapism. The fare they dole out is not realistic.” —Shashi Kapoor.
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Jeff Bridges: Cynics
“Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they’ve been hurt, they’re sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that’s protecting this tiny, dear part in them that’s still alive.” —Jeff Bridges.
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Richard Feynman: Always the same dance
“To note that the thing I call my individuality is only a pattern or dance, that is what it means when one discovers how long it takes for the atoms of the brain to be replaced by other atoms. The atoms come into my brain, dance a dance, and then go out – there are…
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Natasha Badhwar: Long enough
“When we dare to hold on to a question long enough, it helps us beat a path to its own answer.” —Natasha Badhwar.
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Ozzy Osbourne: Lying
“To be a liar, you’ve got to have a great memory, and I don’t have a memory.” —Ozzy Osbourne.
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Benjamin Franklin: Better man
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” —Benjamin Franklin.
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Britney Spears: Inspiration, not role model
“I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model – because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I’m offstage, I’m just like everybody else.” —Britney Spears.
