Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Gwyneth Paltrow: Real investments
“My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me.” —Gwyneth Paltrow.
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Simon Sinek: Responsibility
“We take responsibility for our actions at the time we perform our actions, not at the time we get caught.” —Simon Sinek.
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Lisa Zeitlhuber: Emotions
“Emotions are so powerful they influence our perception, decision making, and even memory—the more emotional an experience the better we remember it.” —Lisa Zeitlhuber.
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Simon Sinek: People
“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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T S Eliot: Harm
“Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.” —T S Eliot.
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Ray Kurzweil: Double-edged sword
“Technology has always been a double-edged sword, since fire kept us warm but burned down our houses.” —Futurist Ray Kurzweil tells Fortune that artificial intelligence advances will do humankind more good than harm, if we use them carefully.
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Seneca: Peace of mind
“The greatest portion of peace of mind is doing nothing wrong. Those who lack self-control live disoriented and disturbed lives.” —Seneca.
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Elvis Presley: Image versus human
“The image is one thing and the human being is another. … It’s very hard to live up to an image.” —Elvis Presley, entertainer.
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Will Smith: Amplify
“Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” —Will Smith.
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Frank Lloyd Wright: Beautiful life
“The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.” —Frank Lloyd Wright, architect.
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Pedro Almodovar: More interested in women
“Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don’t know why I am more interested in women, because I don’t go to any psychiatrists, and I don’t want to know why.” —Pedro Almodovar.
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Simon Sinek: Rule books and frameworks
“Rule books tell people what to do. Frameworks guide people how to act. Rule books insist on discipline. Frameworks allow for creativity.” —Simon Sinek.
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Dwight D Eisenhower: Average thing
“As long as I am back in my military life for a second, I should like to observe one thing about leadership that one of the great has said — Napoleon. He said, the great leader, the genius in leadership, is the man who can do the average thing when everybody else is going crazy.”…
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Mickey Rooney: Transition
“Sometimes the transition from being in control of your life to having absolutely no control is swift, but other times it is so gradual that you wonder exactly when it truly began.” —Mickey Rooney.
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Simon Sinek: Do no work
“Work is expending effort on things we don’t want to do. Passion is expending energy on things we love to do. The goal is to do no work.” —Simon Sinek.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Worth
“A person understands himself not thru thoughts, but with actions. It is only thru making an effort that a person will understand his worth.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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Michael Faraday: Take all things quietly
“The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.” —Michael Faraday.
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Judy Garland: First-rate version
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” —Judy Garland,singer and actress.
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Simon Sinek: True friend
“A true friend is someone with whom protocol is no longer necessary.” —Simon Sinek.
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Bill Murray: Fame
“There’s only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing. Sometimes you can avoid a traffic violation. But the only time it really matters is in the emergency room with your kids. That’s when you want to be noticed, because it’s very…
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Sophia Loren: Fountain of youth
“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.” —Sophia Loren.
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Rafael Casal: Reeks of your influence
“First week of a break-up, you’re on my mind more than you ever were. So I clean everything in my apartment. Clean my way into forgetting, then I find things that I couldn’t when we were together. Your shirt, your favourite CD. Reasons that I liked you. Until my room reeks of your influence. ”…
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Marcus Aurelius: No intervals
“I call this life a happy one in which I do one good deed after another, with no intervals between them.” -Marcus Aurelius
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Russ Roberts: Causation
“So we manage to convince ourselves that the evidence speaks so loudly, so emphatically, that we have no choice but to declare our allegiance to a particular tribe as a result of that evidence. The red tribe. Or the blue one. Or the white one. Or the black one. It rarely crosses our minds to…
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Emil Zatopek: A reasonable goal
“You can’t climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don’t fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that’s reasonable, and then gradually raise it.” —Emil Zatopek.
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Max Tegmark: Not malevolence, but incompetence
“The real worry with advanced AI is not malevolence but incompetence.” —Cosmologist and co-founder of the Future of Life Institute Max Tegmark explains to the Guardian why we’re worrying about sentient machines all wrong.
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Karan Johar: Overconfidence and delusion
“Dear talent…I wish you would stay away from overconfidence and delusion…they are constantly conspiring against you… don’t you see it?” —Karan Johar.
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James Gandolfini: Vampires
“You know, all writers are vampires and they’ll look around and they watch you when you’re not even thinking they’re watching you and they’ll slip stuff in.” —James Gandolfini.
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Nayyirah Waheed: Beginning
“You not wanting me was the beginning of me wanting myself.” —Nayyirah Waheed.
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Brock Thoene: Harder
“It always is harder to be left behind than to be the one to go…” —Brock Thoene.
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Warren Buffett: Ability and rationality
“So why do smart people do things that interfere with getting the output they’re entitled to? It gets into the habits and character and temperament, and behaving in a rational manner. Not getting in your own way. As I said, everybody here has the ability absolutely to do anything I do and much beyond. Some…
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Lauren Bacall: Looking at yourself
“Looking at yourself in a mirror isn’t exactly a study of life.” —Lauren Bacall.
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J B Priestley: Respect
“There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.” —J B Priestley.
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Ramachandra Guha: Lessons of history
“Like other practicing historians, I am often asked what the ‘lessons of history’ are. I answer that the only lesson I have learnt from studying the past is that there are no permanent winners and losers.” —Ramachandra Guha.
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Tommy Lee Jones: Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow
“A thousand years ago, everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, they knew the Earth was flat. Fifteen minutes ago, you knew we humans were alone on it. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow.” —Tommy Lee Jones.
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Patrick Dixon: Seeing the point
“I would rather work with five people who really believe in what they are doing … than five hundred who can’t see the point.” —Patrick Dixon, business consultant.
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Simon Sinek: Expending energy
“Instead of expending energy to fit into the group, it’s better to expend energy to find the group in which we fit.” —Simon Sinek.
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Mahatma Gandhi: Belief
“If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.” —Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader.
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Ginni Rometty: Job replacement
“When it comes to complete job replacement, it will be a very small percentage; when it comes to changing a job and what you do, it’ll be 100 percent.” — That’s the clear-eyed take on automation’s impact on the labor market from IBM CEO Ginni Rometty during a conversation with Bloomberg.
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Anne Frank: Good example
“People will always follow a good example; be the one to set a good example.” —Anne Frank,diarist.
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John Kenneth Galbraith: Financial memory
“Let it be emphasized once more, and especially to anyone inclined to a personally rewarding skepticism in these matters: for practical purposes, the financial memory should be assumed to last, at a maximum, no more than 20 years. This is normally the time it takes for the recollection of one disaster to be erased and…
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Thomas Pynchon: Questions and answers
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.” —Thomas Pynchon, novelist (b. 8 May 1937) .
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Paul Walker: Little boys
“If you spend any time with a man, you’ll realize that we’re all still little boys.” —Paul Walker.
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Rowan Atkinson: Crying in the rain
“I love walking in the rain because no one can see me crying.” —Rowan Atkinson.
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Moby: Success
“Whenever I’ve had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that’s when you learn.” —Moby.
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Simon Sinek: Two types of decisions
“There are two types of decisions: good decisions and lessons learned.” —Simon Sinek.
