Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Dale Carnegie: Inaction
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” —Dale Carnegie.
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Rudy Francisco: Loving ourselves
“Perhaps we should love ourselves so fiercely, that when others see us they know exactly how it should be done.” —Rudy Francisco.
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Ben Graham: Irrational
“Obviously the stock market is quite irrational in thus varying its valuation of a company proportionately with the temporary changes in reported profits. A private business might easily earn twice as much in a boom year as in poor times, but its owner would never think of correspondingly marking up or down the value of…
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Franklin Pierce: Elections
“Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.” —Franklin Pierce.
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David Cassidy: Role models
“Kids need role models, whether it’s baseball players, actors or musicians: people to bring a little positive light into their hearts and minds. We need to be a little kinder to those people because it’s not easy being that role model, looked upon as something we are all incapable of being – too perfect.” —David…
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William Arthur Ward: Gratitude
“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —William Arthur Ward.
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Plutarch: Oration
“It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man’s oration — nay, it is a very easy matter — but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.” —Plutarch, biographer and essayist.
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Walt Disney: Heritage
“Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.” —Walt Disney.
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Scarlett Johansson: Aura of mystery
“There’s no such thing as an aura of mystery anymore. It doesn’t exist. That’s a thing of the past.” —Scarlett Johansson.
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Simon Sinek: Passion
“The passion to change the world for the better is a more powerful force than defense to keep it the same.” —Simon Sinek.
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Joseph Prince: News
“Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands of messages and voices bombard us from the moment we wake, fighting for our attention. All we see and hear, all day long, is news. And most of it is bad.”…
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Voltaire: Appreciation
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” —Voltaire.
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Gary Davis: Creative thinking
“Creative thinking is much more than using your imagination to crank out lots of new ideas. Creative thinking is a lifestyle, a personality trait, a way of perceiving the world, a way of interacting with other people, and a way of living and growing.”—Gary Davis
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Joe Biden: Lot more than a paycheck
My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‘Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community'”. —Joe Biden.
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Abraham Maslow: Good society
“The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.” —Abraham Maslow, psychologist.
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Sushmita Sen: Essence of a woman
“Just being a woman is God’s gift. The origin of a child is a mother, a woman. She shows a man what sharing, caring, and loving is all about. That is the essence of a woman.” —Sushmita Sen.
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Meg Ryan: Change
“People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn’t want to happen has happened.” —Meg Ryan.
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Jake Abel: Competing friends
“I think it is possible to be friends even if you’re competing. You know, there’s so many guys in rooms that try to psych each other out, and it doesn’t work. It only hinders their work.” —Jake Abel.
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Anne Bradstreet: Sweet words
Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh but too much gluts the stomach.” Anne Bradstreet
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Charles Darwin: Serviceable
“I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it. Indeed, I have had no choice but to act in this manner, for with the exception of…
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Sophie Marceau: Acting versus writing
“Acting is contained – you act for three months, then leave it – but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.” —Sophie Marceau.
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Herbert Spencer: Misused words
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.” Herbert Spencer
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Maggie Gyllenhaal: All day
“A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you’re rehearsing, you’re working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you’re doing the play, you have all day.” —Maggie Gyllenhaal.
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May Sargon: Dangerous words
The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.” May Sarton
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Marianne Moore: Pleasing
“Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.” —Marianne Moore.
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Jalaluddin Rumi: Raise your words
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” Jalaluddin Rumi.
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Prince Charles: Jolly good disaster
“There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.” —Prince Charles.
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Robert Fulghum: Children
“Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” —Robert Fulghum.
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Blaise Pascal: Virtue
“The virtue of a person is measured not by his outstanding efforts, but by his everyday behavior.” —Blaise Pascal.
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Leonard Cohen: Poetry
“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.” —Leonard Cohen.
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Epicetus: What to do to be
“First, say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.” —Epictetus, philosopher.
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George S Patton: Foolish and wrong
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.” —George S. Patton.
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Kris Gale: Value
“Embrace simplicity in your product and in your code. The value is in what gets used, not what gets built.”—Kris Gale
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Steve Allen: Utterly bizarre enclave
“Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they…
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Paraclesus: Medicine
“Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.” —Paraclesus.
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Kris Gale: Simplicity
“Embrace simplicity in your product and in your code. The value is in what gets used, not what gets built.”—Kris Gale.
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Martin Luther: Responsible
“You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.” —Martin Luther.
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Alexis De Tocqueville: Life
“Life is neither suffering nor pleasure, but the business which we have to do, and which we have to finish honestly, up to our life’s end.” -Alexis De Tocqueville
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Hedy Lamarr: Men and women
“It’s funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.” —Hedy Lamarr.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau: Silence
“A person who knows little likes to talk, and one who knows much mostly keeps silent. This is because a person who knows little thinks that everything he knows is important, and wants to tell everyone. A person who knows much also knows that there is much more he doesn’t know. That’s why he speaks…
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Gordon Ramsay: Game over
“The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.” —Gordon Ramsay.
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Christian Nestell Bovee: Two sources of light
“The light in the world comes principally from two sources — the sun, and the student’s lamp.” —Christian Nestell Bovee, writer.
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Marie Curie: Understand
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” —Marie Curie.
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Confucius: Wisdom
“A wise man looks for everything inside of himself; a madman seeks for everything in others.” -Confucius.
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Maria Shriver: Replaceability
“At work, you’re replaceable… but as a parent, you’re irreplaceable.” —Maria Shriver.
