Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Alyssa Bereznak: Short-sighted
“It is incredibly short-sighted to have done a bad thing, and then … offer wisdom as to how we all might fix it.” — Writer Alyssa Bereznak doesn’t understand why tech’s sexual harassment perpetrators choose to suggest solutions rather than listening to their victims.
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Marcus Aurelius: Rounding the point
“It’s all in how you perceive it. You’re in control. You can dispense with misperception at will, like rounding the point. Serenity, total calm, safe anchorage.” — Marcus Aurelius (Meditations).
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Ingmar Bergman: Anger and creativity
“The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there’s plenty of anger left.” —Ingmar Bergman.
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Seneca: Different person
“If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.” —Seneca.
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Robert Frost: Change
“Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.” —Robert Frost,poet.
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Benjamin Graham: True investment
”To have a true investment there must be present a true margin of safety. And a true margin of safety is one that can be demonstrated by figures, by persuasive reasoning, and by reference to a body of actual experience.” —Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor.
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Simon Sinek: Questions
“The confident ask questions to learn what will connect. The insecure just keep talking with the hope something will stick.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Curiosity
“Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there’s room for improvement.” —Simon Sinek.
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Oscar Hammerstein: Unlimited
“The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.” —Oscar Hammerstein.
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Walt Whitman: A Song of joys
“O to struggle against great odds, to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them, to find how much one can stand! To look strife, torture, prison, popular odium, face to face! To mount the scaffold, to advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance! To be indeed a God! O to sail to…
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Jhumpa Lahiri: Be fearless
“You can’t have a hit every time. The main thing is to keep on working and not be afraid to take risks. It’s better to do something that’s not perfect and successful every time. It’s important to be fearless and move forward, to learn from what went wrong.” —Jhumpa Lahiri.
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Giorgio Armani: Alpha and Omega
“I’ve always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet.” —Giorgio Armani.
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Simon Sinek: Leadership
“A leader should not take credit when things go right if they are not willing to accept responsibility when things go wrong.” —Simon Sinek.
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Charlie Munger: Mental models
“You’ve got to have models in your head. And you’ve got to array your experience—both vicarious and direct—on this latticework of models. You may have noticed students who just try to remember and pound back what is remembered. Well, they fail in school and in life. You’ve got to hang experience on a latticework of…
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Nikola Tesla: Non-physical phenomena
“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.” —Nikola Tesla.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Essential matters
“When you tell [grown-ups] you’ve made a new friend, they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you ‘What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?’ Instead they demand, ‘How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does…
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Simon Sinek: ‘Rebranding’
“There’s no such thing as ‘rebranding.’ A brand’s WHY is either clear or it’s fuzzy. And if it’s fuzzy, changing the look won’t help.” —Simon Sinek.
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Ilunga
“In June 2004, ‘ilunga’ was reported as being a Bantu word meaning ‘a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time’, and – in the opinion of 1,000 linguists surveyed on the subject – the world‘s most difficult word to translate.” Source: Wikipedia.
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Tom Hanks: Hard
“If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.” —Tom Hanks.
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Pamela Adlon: Best and worst
“Everybody hates you when you’re the best, and everybody hates you when you’re the worst.” —Pamela Adlon.
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Herbert Bayard Swope: Formula for failure
“I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: Try to please everybody all the time.” —Herbert Bayard Swope,journalist.
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Simon Sinek: Practice and hard work
“Being human takes practice and hard work. Being inhuman, unfortunately, comes all too easy.” —Simon Sinek.
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Richard Bookstaber: Heuristics
“We live on a planet of inexperience, with an unknown future, forced to make decisions based only on the past, a past that may prove to be a limited guide to the future. On this planet we are drawn away from strict optimization and toward heuristics.” -Richard Bookstaber (The End of Theory).
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Kevin Bacon: Fame
“Any idiot can get laid when they’re famous. That’s easy. It’s getting laid when you’re not famous that takes some talent.” —Kevin Bacon.
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Jean de La Fontaine: Prudent enemy preferable
“Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.” —Jean de La Fontaine.
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Peter Norvig: AI systems
“AI systems are fundamentally dealing with uncertainty, whereas traditional software is fundamentally trying to hide uncertainty.” —Peter Norvig, Google’s director of research, O’Reilly AI conference, New York.
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Marcus Aurelius: Right now
“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Simon Sinek: Hope
“If there are people who care, then there is hope. If hope is lost, then no one will care.” —Simon Sinek.
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Ringo Starr: Ambitious
“Of course I’m ambitious. What’s wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.” —Ringo Starr.
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Robert A Heinlein: Sin
“Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other ‘sins’ are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful — just stupid.)” —Robert A Heinlein.
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Simon Sinek: Clear vision
“A movement starts with a clear vision of a world different than the one we live in today.” —Simon Sinek.
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Biju Dominic: Chameleons
“Humans are like chameleons who have the ability to change their colours to suit the surroundings. We speak softly in libraries, we are boisterous in stadiums. As soon as an individual enters an environment, she derives a certain understanding and a meaning about that surrounding. It is this meaning that influences how we act in…
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Richard Bookstaber: Crisises
“How we look at the world, even how we understand what someone else is saying, depends on context, and context changes with our experience and with circumstance. In the day-to-day world, these changes usually move slowly—though they do change: what we want for our lives, what we strive for and sacrifice for, are different at…
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Nancy Reagan: Tea bag
“A woman is like a tea bag, you can not tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.” —Nancy Reagan.
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George W Bush: Catapult the propaganda
“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.” —George W Bush.
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Dalai Lama: If you can
“If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.” —Dalai Lama.
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Sylvester Stallone: Rejection
“I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.” —Sylvester Stallone.
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Warren Buffett: Sedated rationality
“The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed triumphs. Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money.” —Warren Buffett.
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Simon Sinek: Fulfillment
“Bad days don’t make it a bad job. Good days don’t make it a good job. Like a relationship, it’s the general feeling we get when we think about our work—not the excitement or stress on any particular day—that defines our fulfillment.” —Simon Sinek.
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Julie Nixon Eisenhower: All leaders
“All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job.” —Julie Nixon Eisenhower.
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Michel de Montaigne: Unceasingly
“We, and our judgment, and all mortal things go on flowing and rolling unceasingly. Thus nothing certain can be established about one thing by another, both the judging and the judged being in continual change and motion.” —Michel de Montaigne.
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Richard Bookstaber: World cannot be solved
“It is a deeply held conviction within economics that our world can be reduced to models that are founded on the solid ground of axioms, plumbed by deductive logic into rigorous, universal mathematical structures. Economists think they have things figured out, but our economic behavior is so complex, our interactions are so profound that there…
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Nathaniel Hawthorne: Heroic world
“A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.” —Nathaniel Hawthorne.
