Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Rudy Francisco: Mess and broom
“Sometimes I’m the mess. Sometimes I’m the broom. On the hardest days, I have to be both.” —Rudy Francisco.
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Joe Perry: Repercussions
“I think people have to be more aware of what the repercussions are of their actions.” —Joe Perry.
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Simon Sinek: Great companies
“Great companies don’t hire skilled people and motivate them. Great companies hire already motivated people and inspire them.” —Simon Sinek.
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Leo Tolstoy: Condition for happiness
“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.” —Leo Tolstoy.
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Simon Sinek: Beautiful, imperfect dance
“Sometimes we give too much too soon. Sometimes we hold back for too long. This is our beautiful dance. Our imperfect dance. This is the dance that makes us human.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: What and why
“Those who know WHAT they do tend to work harder. Those who know WHY tend to work smarter.” —Simon Sinek.
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Gabrielle Zevin: Someday
“Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this very moment, you can’t hook your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both.” —Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a teenage amnesiac.
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Jennifer Tejada: Customers don’t care
“Customers don’t care why something doesn’t work.” ___ Jennifer Tejada, PagerDuty CEO, PagerDuty Summit 2017
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Pink: Consumerism
“Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women’s rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what’s going on in Africa – it stops us from thinking in general.” —Pink.
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Lisa Kleypas: Cruel sense of humor
“Sometimes, life has a cruel sense of humour, giving you the thing you wanted at the worst possible time.” —Lisa Kleypas.
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Howard Marks: Overpermissive
“Overpermissive providers of capital frequently aid and abet financial bubbles. . . . In Field of Dreams, Kevin Costner was told, ‘if you build it, they will come.’ In the financial world, if you offer cheap money, they will borrow, buy and build – often without discipline, and with very negative consequences.” -Howard Marks (November…
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Queen Elizabeth II: No single formula for success
“I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.” —Queen Elizabeth II.
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Lang Leav: Sad writers
“I don’t think all writers are sad, she said. I think it’s the other way around—all sad people write.” —Lang Leav, Sad Girls.
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Marquis de Lafayette: Hands of the clergy
“If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.” —Marquis de Lafayette.
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Mandy Hale: Heartbreak
“Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we are settling for.” —Mandy Hale.
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Atsushi Horiba: Reading too many comic books
“Any academic who says 100 percent of cars will be electric in the future has been reading too many comic books.” — Atsushi Horiba, whose firm builds 80 percent of the world’s car emissions-testing equipment, tells Bloomberg that visions of an all-electric future are overblown.
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Cardinal Richelieu: Six lines
“If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.” —Cardinal Richelieu.
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Beyonce Knowles: Nervous energy
“I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.” —Beyonce Knowles.
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Byron Katie: Reality
“You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.” —Byron Katie,writer and speaker.
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Charlie Sheen: Nothing
“You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.” —Charlie Sheen.
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Christopher Morley: Little water
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. -Christopher Morley, writer (5 May 1890-1957).
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Keanu Reeves: Two different things
“Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.” —Keanu Reeves.
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Simon Sinek: Focus
“Focus on money and we will make money. Focus on impact and we will make an impact.” —Simon Sinek.
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Herbert J Muller: Cosmic bellhop
“The doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind.” —Herbert J. Muller, educator, historian, and author (1905-1980).
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Anne Currie: No global version
“In a distributed system there is no global shared memory and therefore no single version of the truth.” ___ Anne Currie — “Distributed Systems Are Hard”.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs: Silent and ashamed
“Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.” —Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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Simon Sinek: Practice
“Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. Practice is the thing you do that makes you good.” —Simon Sinek.
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth: Come sit next to me
“If you haven’t got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.” —Alice Roosevelt Longworth.
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Simon Sinek: Competition
“The more we focus on what our competition is doing, the less we focus on who we are.” —Simon Sinek.
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Richard Gere: Bravery
“I don’t think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.” —Richard Gere.
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Simon Sinek: Better people
“When we don’t fear our own leaders, it’s easier for us to be better people.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Learning
“We don’t learn much when everything goes right. We learn most when things go wrong.” —Simon Sinek.
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Charles Bukowski: Intellectuals and artists
“An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.” —Charles Bukowski,writer.
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Cameron Diaz: Regrets
“Your regrets aren’t what you did, but what you didn’t do. So I take every opportunity.” —Cameron Diaz.
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Simon Sinek: Leadership
“Leadership isn’t communicating what we need. Leadership is communicating what we can contribute.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Metrics
“Every manager of metrics has an opportunity to become a leader of people.” —Simon Sinek.
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Tommy Lee Jones: Underused
“Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They are underused.” —Tommy Lee Jones.
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Andrew Mason: Lack of data
“My biggest regrets are the moments that I let a lack of data override my intuition on what’s best for our customers.”—Groupon founder Andrew Mason.
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Michael Jackson: In a world
“In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.” —Michael Jackson.
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Michael Jackson: Greatest education
“The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.” —Michael Jackson.
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Simon Sinek: Followers and leaders
“Followers want to be taken care of. Leaders want to take care of others. We can all be leaders.” —Simon Sinek.
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Theodor Seuss Geisel: Humor
“Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. … If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.” —Theodor Seuss Geisel,writer and illustrator.
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Simon Sinek: Better to go slow
“It’s better to go slow in the right direction than to go fast in the wrong direction.” —Simon Sinek.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: Things which matter most
“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.
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Simon Sinek: Progress
“It’s ok if others use our ideas as long as they build upon them. That’s called progress.” —Simon Sinek.
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Mary Wollstonecraft: Neither rational nor virtuous
“The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.” —Mary Wollstonecraft, reformer and writer (27 Apr 1759-1797).
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Lyndon Johnson: Thinking
“If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.” —Lyndon Johnson.
