Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Thich Nhat Hanh: Lettuce
“When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look into the reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other…
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Simon Sinek: Great leaders
“Great leaders give everyone something to believe in, not something to do.” —Simon Sinek.
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Roman Abramovich: Childhood
“To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can’t compare things: one eats carrots, one eats candy, both taste good. As a child you cannot tell the difference.” —Roman Abramovich.
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Simon Sinek: Culture
“A culture is strong when people work with each other, for each other. A culture is weak when people work against each other, for themselves.” —Simon Sinek.
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Samuel Butler: Inspiration
“Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person.” —Samuel Butler, writer.
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Samuel Johnson: Absurdity of conduct
“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.” —Samuel Johnson, writer.
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Freeman Dyson: Technology
Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God’s gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.” – Freeman Dyson.
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Ryan Reynolds: Signature fragrance
“I think a fragrance is more of a signature than even what you wear – something you’ll remember more down the road than a shirt.” —Ryan Reynolds.
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Paula Scher: Mistakes
“It’s through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.” —Paula Scher.
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Simon Sinek: People, not ideas
“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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Catherine Deneuve: Love is suffering
“Love is suffering. One side always loves more.” —Catherine Deneuve.
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Lauren McCarthy: No giant textbook
“The web changes so fast, and the ultimate thing we are trying to teach is feeling comfortable with experimentation. Because on the web, there’s no one giant textbook you can read and feel like, ‘I am all set to master this.’” – – -Lauren McCarthy.
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Voltaire: Optimism
“Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.” —Voltaire.
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Simon Sinek: Great leaders
“Great leaders don’t try to be perfect. Great leaders try to be themselves. And that’s what makes them great.” —Simon Sinek.
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Sanskrit: Very life of life
“Look to this day, for it is life, the very life of life. In its brief course lie all the verities and realities of your existence: the bliss of growth, the glory of action, the splendour of beauty. For yesterday is already a dream and tomorrow is only a vision; but today, well lived, makes…
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Snoop Dogg: Choices of people
“The most important decision I’ve made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, ‘Come on everybody, we made it.’ Then I had to realize we didn’t make it. I made it.” —Snoop Dogg.
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Tren Griffin: Constant work and diligence
“To be a successful investor, a person must regularly devote the necessary time and effort. Even if you once felt that you knew a lot about investing, it does not mean your skills are current. Maintaining a circle of competence requires constant work and diligence.” —Tren Griffin.
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Simon Sinek: Work
“Give people a reason to come to work, not just a place to go to work.” —Simon Sinek.
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Benjamin Franklin: Closing constitutional speech
Benjamin Franklin’s Closing Speech at the Constitutional Convention, September 17, 1787 Mr President, I confess that I do not entirely approve this Constitution at present, but sir, I am not sure I shall never approve it: for having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to…
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John Lithgow: Academics
“Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.” —John Lithgow.
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Simon Sinek: Life’s not a competition
“Life is not a competition, it’s a game. It’s not about winning or losing, it’s about all the fun we can have before it ends.” —Simon Sinek.
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Charlie Munger: Continuously practice
“All skills attenuate with disuse. I was a whiz at calculus until age twenty, after which the skill was soon obliterated by total nonuse. The right antidote to such a loss is to make use of the functional equivalent of the aircraft simulator employed in pilot training. This allows a pilot to continuously practice all…
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Jean-Claude Van Damme: Easy
“You have to believe what you say, and if you believe what you are saying, then acting is easy.” —Jean Claude Van Damme.
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Simon Sinek: Pursuit
“Pursue the thing inside us, and others will help us. Pursue the things outside us, and others will compete with us.” —Simon Sinek.
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Seneca: Great of soul
The person who has practiced philosophy as a cure for the self becomes great of soul, filled with confidence, invincible—and greater as you draw near.” -Seneca.
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Dolph Lundgren: Keep it alive
“Your body’s made to run, to walk, to trek long distances and carry things, work in a forest, and hunt animals. You have to keep it alive to function.” —Dolph Lundgren.
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Epicetus: Practice and training
“That’s why the philosophers warn us not to be satisfied with mere learning, but to add practice and then training. For as time passes we forget what we learned and end up doing the opposite, and hold opinions the opposite of what we should.” -Epictetus.
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Tim Robbins: Self-censorship
“I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you’re afraid to the point where you censor yourself.” —Tim Robbins.
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Thoreau: Practically
“To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school…it is to solve some of the problems of life not only theoretically, but practically.” —Thoreau.
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Virgil: The rub, the task
“It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air – there’s the rub, the task.” —Virgil.
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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.
