Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Gillian Anderson: Action, perseverance and facing your fears
“Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance and facing your fears.” —Gillian Anderson,actress.
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Akshaye Khanna: Insecurity
“Why is the feeling of insecurity so prevalent in this field? Because the actor is such a dependent person on other people. If I am a painter, poet, composer, I am not really dependent on others. While the profession of acting or being an actor is leaving your entire career open to people and the…
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Tony Robbins: To effectively communicate
“To effectively communicate, we must realise that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.” —Tony Robbins.
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Ellen Ullman: Interruptions
“Programmers don’t talk because they must not be interrupted… To synchronize with other people (or their representation in telephones, buzzers and doorbells) can only mean interrupting the thought train. Interruptions mean certain bugs. You must not get off the train. ” —Ellen Ullman.
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Herman Hesse: Words
“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.” —Herman Hesse.
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Herman Hesse: Sinister to the rest
“People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.” —Herman Hesse.
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Herman Hesse: Not our purpose
“It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.” —Herman Hesse.
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Pierre Cardin: Fashion now
“We undress men and women, we don’t dress them any more.” —Pierre Cardin.
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Tom Schulman: Upon my desk
“I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.” —Tom Schulman,screenwriter.
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Princess Diana: Fulfilling job
“People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me.” —Princess Diana.
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Jeff Bezos: Horizons
“If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people. But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you’re now competing against a fraction of those people, because very few companies are willing to do that. Just by lengthening the time horizon,…
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Mike Tyson: When Jesus comes back
“When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.” —Mike Tyson.
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John Dewey: Education
“Education … is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.” —John Dewey, psychologist and educational reformer.
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Jean Sibelius: Musicians
“[Musicians] talk of nothing but money and jobs. Give me businessmen every time. They really are interested in music and art.” —Jean Sibelius, explaining why he rarely invited musicians to his home.
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John F Kennedy: When the sun is shining
“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.” —John F Kennedy.
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Henry Fielding: Reason
“Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.” —Henry Fielding, author (21 Apr 1707-1754).
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Earning a living
“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.” —Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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Steve Case: Killer app
“The killer app is people.” —Steve Case on the NPR podcast How I Built This, 4/3/2017.
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Charlie Munger: Wise man
“Throughout his life, a wise man engages in practice of all his useful, rarely used skills, many of them outside his discipline, as a sort of duty to his better self. If he reduces the number of skills he practices and, therefore, the number of skills he retains, he will naturally drift into error from…
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Daniel Stillman: Conversation
“We’ve been conversing for thousands of years, and we’ve gotten pretty good at it. But being good at something doesn’t mean you know how to teach someone else how.”—Daniel Stillman re his Conversation Factory podcast featuring Nandini Stocker.
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Ross Perot: Which?
“Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?” —Ross Perot.
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Helen Keller: Optimism
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” —Helen Keller.
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Isabelle Adjani: Not in three days
“But no one frees himself from being in love in three days.” —Isabelle Adjani.
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Clarence Darrow: Objector and rebel
“The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.” —Clarence Darrow, lawyer and author (18 Apr 1857-1938) .
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Pearl S Buck: Feelings
“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.” —Pearl S Buck.
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Brian Tracy: No limitations
“There are no limitations to what you can do, have, or be except the limitations you place on yourself by your own thinking.” —Brian Tracy,writer and motivational speaker.
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George Orwell: Invariably
“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.” —George Orwell.
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Kangana Ranaut: Social media
“I am not online for a reason. There are always two sides to a coin. There are times when you enjoy the pampering, the ‘likes’ you get. But then you have to take the negative remarks in your stride as well.” —Kangana Ranaut.
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George Michael: Total crap
“The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it’s total crap to pretend it’s not.” —George Michael.
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Thornton Wilder: Breaking in, breaking out
“Everybody’s talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.” —Thornton Wilder, writer (17 Apr 1897-1975) .
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Mindy Kaling: Earnestness
“People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.” —Mindy Kaling.
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Earl Warren: Social progress or socialism?
“Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.” —Earl Warren, jurist (1891-1974) .
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David Ogilvy: Set exorbitant standards
“Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don’t live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.” —David Ogilvy.
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Jerry Seinfeld: People on dates
“People on dates shouldn’t even be allowed out in public.” —Jerry Seinfeld.
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Benjamin Graham: Past behaviour
“Unfortunately in this kind of work, where you are trying to determine relationships based upon past behavior, the almost invariable experience is that by the time you have had a long enough period to give you sufficient confidence in your form of measurement, just then new conditions supersede and the measurement is no longer dependable…
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Meryl Streep: Motherhood
“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.” —Meryl Streep.
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Richard Branson: Following rules
“You don’t learn to walk by following rules, you learn by doing and by falling over.” —Richard Branson,entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist.
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Simon Sinek: Bigger and better
“Bigger does not mean better. But better is how we get bigger.” —Simon Sinek.
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Francoise Sagan: Two kinds of trickery
“It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the ‘fronts’ people assume before one another’s eyes, and the ‘front’ a writer puts on the face of reality.” —Francoise Sagan.
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Christopher Hitchens: Proof
“What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.” —Christopher Hitchens, author and journalist (13 Apr 1949-2011) .
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Jay Walker: Cross-pollination
“You’ve got all this stuff to learn, and by the way, you’ve got to learn it in a dozen fields, not just the one you’re working in, because it’s all about cross-pollination. It’s all about taking good ideas in other areas and bringing it into your area. It’s all about adding value above your job…
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Charlie Munger: Deferred gratification
“Obviously if you’re glued together and honorable and get up every morning and keep learning every day and you’re willing to go in for a lot of deferred gratification all your life, you’re going to succeed. It may not be as much as you want. But you’re going to success. And so the main thing…
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Abby Covert: To-do list
“Be careful with your to-do list. Make sure each task on it isn’t just a distraction from dealing with your reality.” —Abby Covert (NB: foul language alert).
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Nicole Kidman: Different approach
“I have a different approach. I don’t file lawsuits because I really don’t care.” —Nicole Kidman.
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Simon Sinek: Start with Why
“Getting someone to work with us once is easy. Twice takes work. Inspiring them to work with us without asking starts with Why.” —Simon Sinek.
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Dan Millman: Change
“Change is a law, and no amount of pretending will alter that reality. —Dan Millman,gymnast, writer and lecturer.
