Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Charles McCabe: Opinion is an art
“Any clod can have the facts, but having opinion is an art.” —Charles McCabe,columnist.
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Usher: Appearance
“Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you’re going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.” —Usher.
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Brad Pitt: Let us be…
“Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right for life. Let us be outraged,…
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Dwight D Eisenhower: Total security
“If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.” —Dwight D Eisenhower.
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Edmund Burke: Good order
“Good order is the foundation of all good things.” —Edmund Burke,statesman and orator.
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Nassim Taleb: Past’s past
“If the past, by bringing surprises, did not resemble the past previous to it (what I call the past’s past), then why should our future resemble our current past?” – Nassim Taleb, Fooled by Randomness
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Steve Weinberg: Methods of science
“If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we can give the universe by the way we live, by loving each other, by discovering things about nature, by creating works of art.” —Steve Weinberg, physicist.
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Chris Wanstrath: Coding and automation
“We think the future of coding is no coding at all.” —Chris Wanstrath, co-founder of the cloud-based code repository GitHub, thinks that software development’s destiny lies in automation.
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Luciano Pavarotti: Rivalry with oneself
“The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.” —Luciano Pavarotti.
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Eleanor Roosevelt: Every experience
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ …You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” —Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Amitabh Bachchan: Looking back
“I don’t spend much time looking back at what happened. I do remember it, but I don’t see any purpose of wanting to look back.” —Amitabh Bachchan.
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Eleanor Roosevelt: Philosophy
“One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.” —Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Warren Buffett: It should scream at you
“If you need to use a computer or calculator to make the calculation, you shouldn’t buy it…It should scream at you…we do not sit down with spreadsheets and do all that sort of thing. We just see something that obviously is better than anything else around that we understand — and then we act.” -Warren Buffett.
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Mike Monteiro: Hired for expertise
“When you are hired to design something, you are hired for your expertise. Your job is not just to produce that work but to evaluate the impact of that work.”—Mike Monteiro, “A Designer’s Code of Ethics
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Seth Klarman: Lonely and contrary
“In a world in which most investors appear interested in figuring out how to make money every second and chase the idea du jour, there’s also something validating about the message that it’s okay to do nothing and wait for opportunities to present themselves or to pay off. That’s lonely and contrary a lot of…
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Giuseppe Verdi: Blessed a thousand times
“Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs.” —Giuseppe Verdi.
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Mignon McLaughlin: Self-conscious
“Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.” —Mignon McLaughlin, journalist and writer.
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John Lennon: Peace and television sets
“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.” —John Lennon.
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Arthur Schopenhauer: Anything perceived
“Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.” — Arthur Schopenhauer.
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Ray Dalio: Synthesis
“The quality of your synthesis will determine the quality of your decision making. This is why it pays to triangulate your views with people who you know synthesize well.” — Ray Dalio.
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Matt Damon: Better to be yourself
“It’s just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.” —Matt Damon.
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Marcus Garvey: Confidence
“With confidence, you have won even before you have started. —Marcus Garvey,political activist and publisher.
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Vladmir Putin: Lonely
“Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.” —Vladmir Putin.
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Benjamin Franklin: Best or fittest
“The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.” —Benjamin Franklin.
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Elisabeth Shue: Vulnerability
“I understand now that the vulnerability I’ve always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can’t experience life without feeling life. What I’ve learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it’s a strength.” —Elisabeth Shue.
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Chinese wisdom: Enlightened intellect
“Intellect can be enlightened only in a kind person. A person can be kind only when he has an enlightened intellect. One helps the other.” —Chinese wisdom.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes: Rules and exceptions
“The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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Kate Winslet: Mother
“Every woman has a mother, and every woman will have an issue with that mother and things that mother did or didn’t do. It just depends on how you choose to process the lessons that you learned from your own mother.” —Kate Winslet.
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Tom Petty: One day
“You and I will meet again, When we’re least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won’t say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.” —Tom Petty.
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Marcus Aurelius: Kindness
“Kindness is invincible, but only when it’s sincere, with no hypocrisy or faking. For what can even the most malicious person do if you keep showing kindness and, if given the chance, you gently point out where they went wrong—right as they are trying to harm you?” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Susan Sarandon: Being older
“I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.” —Susan Sarandon.
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John Wooden: Give it away
“Give it away to get it back.There is a wonderful, almost mystical, law of nature that says three of the things we want most—happiness, freedom, and peace of mind—are always attained when we give them to others. “ —John Wooden (Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court).
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Gwen Stefani: Two different worlds
“Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless – two different worlds.” —Gwen Stefani.
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Paulo Coelho: Haters
“Haters don’t hate you. they hate themselves, because you’re a reflection of what they wish to be.” —Paulo Coelho.
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Mahatma Gandhi: Service of others
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” —Mahatma Gandhi.
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Thomas Edison: Restlessness
“Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress.” —Thomas Edison,inventor.
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Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals
“Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.” – Benoit Mandelbrot, introduction to The Fractal Geometry of Nature.
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Jimmy Carter: Tendency
“We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.” —Jimmy Carter.
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Epicetus: Drop a few treats
“When children stick their hand down a narrow goody jar they can’t get their full fist out and start crying. Drop a few treats and you will get it out! Curb your desire—don’t set your heart on so many things and you will get what you need.” —Epictetus.
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Marcus Aurelius: Inescapable
“It’s silly to try to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.” —Marcus Aurelius
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Monica Bellucci: Good of the family
“In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.” —Monica Bellucci.
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Ira Glass: Taste is killer
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential,…
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Mark Zuckerberg: Platform for all ideas
“Trump says Facebook is against him.Liberals say we helped Trump. Both sides are upset about ideas and content they don’t like. That’s what running a platform for all ideas looks like.” —Mark Zuckerberg.
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Miguel de Cervantes: Discipline
“It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.” —Miguel de Cervantes.
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Babe Ruth: Nine greatest individual ballplayers
“You can have the nine greatest individual ballplayers in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.” —Babe Ruth,baseball player.
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Marcello Mastrioanni: Arguing
“With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten?” —Marcello Mastrioanni.
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Adrian Zumbrunnen: Good designers
“Good designers are good listeners. They start by understanding, not solving.” —Adrian Zumbrunnen
