Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Simon Sinek: Try to empathize
“We must all try to empathize before we criticize. Ask someone what’s wrong before telling them they are wrong.” —Simon Sinek.
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Eric Hoffer: No substitute for time
“It has been my experience that there is no substitute for time where thinking is concerned. Why is it so? The answer seems to be that in many cases to think means to be able to allow the mind to stray from the task at hand. The mind must be able to be ‘elsewhere.’ This…
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Jim Morrison: Expose yourself
“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.” —Jim Morrison.
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Eleanor Roosevelt: Criticized anyway
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.” -Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Kim Basinger: Balloon with a string
“You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they’re going to write in whatever clever manner they desire.” —Kim Basinger.
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Simon Sinek: Struggles
Our struggles are the short-term steps we must take on our way to long-term success. —Simon Sinek.
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Leonardo da Vinci: Practice and theory
“Those who are in love with practice without theoretical knowledge are like the sailor who goes onto a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whither he is going…. Practice must always be founded on sound theory.” – Leonardo da Vinci.
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Patrice O’Neal: I don’t like mediocre
“I like to be loved or hated – I don’t like mediocre. So I’d rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.” —Patrice O’Neal.
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Oliver James: Do your own thing
“Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for.” -Oliver James
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Simon Sinek: Grow together
If every member of a team doesn’t grow together, they will grow apart. —Simon Sinek.
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Alfred Eisenstaedt: Creative spirit
“Once the amateur’s naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.” —Alfred Eisenstaedt.
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Simon Sinek: Actionable vision
Your vision is only actionable if you say it out loud. If you keep it to yourself, it will remain a figment of your imagination. —Simon Sinek.
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Walt Disney: Children are people
“I don’t believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn’t treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should. Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want…
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Walt Disney: Unique
“The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.” —Walt Disney.
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Coco Chanel: Be someone
“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.” -Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel
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Shashi Kapoor: Escapism
“Nowadays I am not keen to see films as they deal in escapism. The fare they dole out is not realistic.” —Shashi Kapoor.
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Jeff Bridges: Cynics
“Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they’ve been hurt, they’re sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that’s protecting this tiny, dear part in them that’s still alive.” —Jeff Bridges.
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Richard Feynman: Always the same dance
“To note that the thing I call my individuality is only a pattern or dance, that is what it means when one discovers how long it takes for the atoms of the brain to be replaced by other atoms. The atoms come into my brain, dance a dance, and then go out – there are…
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Natasha Badhwar: Long enough
“When we dare to hold on to a question long enough, it helps us beat a path to its own answer.” —Natasha Badhwar.
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Ozzy Osbourne: Lying
“To be a liar, you’ve got to have a great memory, and I don’t have a memory.” —Ozzy Osbourne.
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Benjamin Franklin: Better man
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” —Benjamin Franklin.
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Britney Spears: Inspiration, not role model
“I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model – because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I’m offstage, I’m just like everybody else.” —Britney Spears.
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Seneca: Perfect soundness of mind
“I am satisfied, if every day I take away something from my vices and correct my faults. I have not arrived at perfect soundness of mind, indeed, I never shall arrive at it.” —Seneca (“On the Happy Life”).
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Jerry Fodor: Philosophy and science
“Some philosophers hold that philosophy is what you do to a problem until it’s clear enough to solve it by doing science. Others hold that if a philosophical problem succumbs to empirical methods, that shows it wasn’t really philosophical to begin with.” Jerry A. Fodor, Representations: Philosophical Essays on the Foundations .
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Nassim Taleb: Homogenizing tastes
“It is obvious that the information age, by homogenizing our tastes, is causing the unfairness to be even more acute—those who win capture almost all the customers.” – Nassim Taleb, Fooled by Randomness.
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Winston Churchill: Continuous effort
“Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.” —Winston Churchill.
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Richard Bach: Not work
“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.” —Richard Bach,writer.
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Louisa May Alcott: Let my name stand
“If I can do no more, let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth’s sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.” —Louisa May Alcott, writer and reformist (29 Nov 1832-1888) .
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Michael Lewis: Not infallible
“The doctor is not infallible and does not know everything, and it’s a shame that we need to thrust him into a position where he has to seem infallible in order to make everybody feel good. Because we are much better off if he’s very aware of how highly fallible he is and how little…
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C S Lewis: Ineffective in this world
“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.” —C S Lewis.
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Margaret Atwood: Fabric of democracy
“The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can go very quickly.” —Margaret Atwood, writer and poet.
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Simon Sinek: Progress
“If we think of everything we have to do, we feel overwhelmed. If we do the one thing we need to do, we make progress.” —Simon Sinek.
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Charlie Munger: Great lesson in microeconomics
“The great lesson in microeconomics is to discriminate between when technology is going to help you and when it’s going to kill you.” – Charlie Munger.
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Jon Stewart: Fatherhood
Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch. —Jon Stewart.
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Margaret Chase Smith: Constructive criticism
“Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. … Constructive criticism is not only to be expected, but sought.” —Margaret Chase Smith, politician.
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Bruce Lee: Knowledge versus character
“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.” —Bruce Lee.
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Rudy Francisco: Parts of me
“I’m still learning to love the parts of me that no one claps for.” —Rudy Francisco.
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Thomas Sowell: Ideas
“People who pride themselves on having ideas often fail to understand that only after ideas have been filtered through real-world world experience do we know whether they are right or wrong. Most turn out to be wrong.” — Thomas Sowell.
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Bruce Paltrow: Homogenized
“Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost.” —Bruce Paltrow.
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Kaui Hart Hemmings: Love and disappointment
“Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?” —Kaui Hart Hemmings.
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Jill Hennessey: Actor working in theater
“When you’re an actor working in the theater, you would never say anything to the writer, never alter the dialogue, never dream to ask for changes.” —Jill Hennessey.
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Frank Lloyd Wright: Chief feature
“The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.” —Frank Lloyd Wright.
