Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Harper Lee: Majority rule
“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” —Harper Lee, writer (28 Apr 1926-2016).
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Simon Sinek: Innovators
“Innovators ignore the rules, not out of contempt. They are simply more focused on their vision than the things that stand in the way.” —Simon Sinek.
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Mother Teresa: Unwanted
“The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.” —Mother Teresa.
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Max De Pree: Define reality
“The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the two, the leader must become a servant and a debtor.” —Max De Pree, businessman and writer.
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Winston Churchill: Empires of the future
“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. —Winston Churchill,statesman and prime minister.
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Simon Sinek: Goal
“The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.” —Simon Sinek.
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Sean Connery: Smack
“There are women who take it to the wire. That’s what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.” —Sean Connery.
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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik: Inexpressible comfort
“Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath…
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Simon Sinek: Authenticity
“Authenticity is more than speaking. Authenticity is also about doing. Every decision we make says something about who we are.” —Simon Sinek.
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Jean-Michel Jarre: Infidelity
“I think that in any language when you have a real relationship, and there is love and respect between people, infidelity is always something difficult to accept – whether you are Chinese, British, French. I think that is a universal concept… or problem. ” —Jean-Michel Jarre.
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Olof Schybergson: Design
“Design is so central and at the forefront of the most interesting work in digital that simply hiring it in when you need it, if you need it, is not really a good long-term game anymore…. Investing in it and making it part of you is something that’s sustainable and trustworthy and believable to your…
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Simon Sinek: Belief
“Those who believe what we believe offer their blood, sweat and tears. Those who don’t believe what we believe demand more money or glory.” —Simon Sinek.
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Jerry Lewis: Every man’s dream
“Every man’s dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.” —Jerry Lewis.
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Simon Sinek: Stress versus passion
“Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion.” —Simon Sinek.
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Peter Kaufman: Five or ten X
“A trust-based, win-win culture that’s genuine in every respect is how to take the normal levels of human effort; such as productivity, co-operation, and ingenuity; and to multiply them by five or 10 times.” —Peter Kaufman.
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Peter Bevelin: Taking a stand
Librarian ‘If we can only gain from a situation, we avoid risk, but when we feel threatened or are in really deep trouble, we fight a lot harder and take larger risks. No one is as dangerous as the opponent who fights for his survival. It is like the story about the rabbit and the…
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Ray Bradbury: Don’t think
“Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.” —Ray Bradbury.
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Edward R Murrow: Accomplices
“No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” —Edward R. Murrow, journalist (25 Apr 1908-1965).
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Harvey Firestone: Better way
“There is always a better way of doing everything than the way which is standard at the moment. It is a good thing for a man to be pushed into finding that better way.” -Harvey Firestone.
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Simon Sinek: Uncertainty
“We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.” —Simon Sinek.
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Friedrich Schiller: Caution
“He that is overcautious will accomplish little.” —Friedrich Schiller, writer and historian.
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Usain Bolt: Manners
“Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you’re growing up, you’re walking down the street, you’ve got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can’t pass one person.” —Usain Bolt.
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Helen Keller: Mostly a superstition
“Security is mostly a superstition. … Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” —Helen Keller,writer and activist.
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Michel De Montaigne: Firm footing
“If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.” -Michel de Montaigne
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Simon Sinek: Not everyone will like us
“If we want to achieve anything in this world, we have to get used to the idea that not everyone will like us.” —Simon Sinek.
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John Carmack: Real key to success
“Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren’t sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.” —John Carmack.
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Simon Sinek: Obsessed
“When we are obsessed with the plan, we miss all the opportunities that exist off the plan.” —Simon Sinek.
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Robert Penn Warren: History and geography
“History is all explained by geography.” —Robert Penn Warren, novelist and poet (24 Apr 1905-1989) .
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Coco Chanel: Success
“Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” —Coco Chanel.
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Simon Sinek: Confidence
“Confidence is believing you’re good. Cockiness is believing you’re better than anyone else. Leaders need to be confident not cocky.” —Simon Sinek.
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W H Auden: Opera
“No opera plot can be sensible, for in sensible situations people do not sing.” —W.H. Auden.
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Patrick Swayze: Love scene
“What’s powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It’s seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.” —Patrick Swayze.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr: Inevitable
“The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., jurist.
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Josh Clark: Data
“The design and presentation of data is just as important as the underlying algorithm.” —Josh Clark.
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Robert De Niro: Feelings
“It’s important not to indicate. People don’t try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.” —Robert De Niro.
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John Kenneth Galbraith: Money
“There is nothing reliable to be learned about making money. If there were, study would be intense and everyone with a positive IQ would be rich.” —John Kenneth Galbraith.
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Simon Sinek: Leaders
“Leaders don’t look for recognition from others. Leaders look for others to recognize.” —Simon Sinek.
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E B White: Libraries
“A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered.” – – —E.B. White.
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Madonna Ciccone: Permission
“Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.” —Madonna Ciccone.
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Federico Fellini: Infinite passion of life
“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.” —Federico Fellini,film director.
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Dave Grohl: Figured it out
“I never took lessons to play the drums. I never took lessons to play the guitar. I just sort of figured it out. I think that if you’re passionate about something and you’re driven and you’re focused, you can do anything you want to do in life.”—Dave Grohl.
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Napoleon Bonaparte: Sword and spirit
“There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.” —Napoleon Bonaparte.
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G K Chesterton: Uninteresting versus uninterested
“There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.” —G.K. Chesterton, writer and critic.
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Evan Burchard: Rarely optimal
“Because you solve such a wide range of problems in software and have so many tools at your disposal, your first guess is rarely optimal. To demand of yourself only to write the best solutions (and never revisit them) is completely impractical.” —Evan Burchard, Refactoring Javascript.
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Simon Sinek: Authorities versus leaders
“Authorities have control. Leaders have legacies.” —Simon Sinek.
