Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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Howard Marks: Large positions
“While it’s true that only large positions can get you into trouble, it’s equally true that only large positions can make a big contribution. (This is one of the great dilemmas in investing.)” —Howard Marks.
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Simon Sinek: Profit and trust
“Profit comes as a result of being good at WHAT we do. Trust comes as a result of being good at WHY we do it.” —Simon Sinek.
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Fidel Castro: Destiny
“Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.” —Fidel Castro.
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Robert Frost: Education
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.” —Robert Frost.
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Simon Sinek: Feels good
“It feels good to help people. So, get out there and feel good.” —Simon Sinek.
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George Soros: Human being
“Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.” —George Soros.
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Groucho Marx: Failure
“No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.” – —Groucho Marx, comedian.
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Simon Sinek: Trust
“We don’t build trust when we offer help. We build trust when we ask for it.” —Simon Sinek.
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Howard Marks: Proceed carefully
“The workings of free capital markets require that in order to overcome investors’ innate aversion to risk, seemingly riskier investments must offer the possibility of higher returns providing ‘risk premiums.’ But when risk aversion is at cyclical lows, risk premiums needn’t be generous; people will invest anyway. Too many people trying to dine at the…
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Simon Sinek: Genius
“The genius at the top doesn’t make the team look good. A good team makes the person at the top look like a genius.” —Simon Sinek.
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Glen Campbell: Start the day early
“I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble.” —Glen Campbell.
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Antonio Banderas: Not stupid
“I don’t want anything I don’t deserve, [but] if they offer me more money, I’m not stupid.” —Antonio Banderas.
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Albert Einstein: Common sense
“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.” —Albert Einstein.
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Simon Sinek: Movement
“A movement only exists when people are willing to move, inspired to follow in the direction a leader points.” —Simon Sinek.
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Whitney Houston: Be straight up with you
“You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can’t fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you’ve got to be straight up with you.” —Whitney Houston.
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Jeff Bezos: Stable in time
“I very frequently get the question: ‘What’s going to change in the next 10 years?’ And that is a very interesting question; it’s a very common one. I almost never get the question: ‘What’s not going to change in the next 10 years?’ And I submit to you that that second question is actually the…
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Simon Sinek: Value of our lives
“The value of our lives is not determined by what we do for ourselves. The value of our lives is determined by what we do for others.” —Simon Sinek.
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Benjamin Hoff: What’s there
“‘A fish can’t whistle and neither can I.’ Coming from a wise mind, such a statement would mean, ‘I have certain limitations, and I know what they are.’ Such a mind would act accordingly. There’s nothing wrong with not being able to whistle, especially if you’re a fish. But there can be lots of things…
