Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Anne Currie: No global version
“In a distributed system there is no global shared memory and therefore no single version of the truth.” ___ Anne Currie — “Distributed Systems Are Hard”.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs: Silent and ashamed
“Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.” —Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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Simon Sinek: Practice
“Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. Practice is the thing you do that makes you good.” —Simon Sinek.
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth: Come sit next to me
“If you haven’t got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.” —Alice Roosevelt Longworth.
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Simon Sinek: Competition
“The more we focus on what our competition is doing, the less we focus on who we are.” —Simon Sinek.
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Richard Gere: Bravery
“I don’t think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.” —Richard Gere.
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Simon Sinek: Better people
“When we don’t fear our own leaders, it’s easier for us to be better people.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Learning
“We don’t learn much when everything goes right. We learn most when things go wrong.” —Simon Sinek.
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Charles Bukowski: Intellectuals and artists
“An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.” —Charles Bukowski,writer.
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Cameron Diaz: Regrets
“Your regrets aren’t what you did, but what you didn’t do. So I take every opportunity.” —Cameron Diaz.
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Simon Sinek: Leadership
“Leadership isn’t communicating what we need. Leadership is communicating what we can contribute.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Metrics
“Every manager of metrics has an opportunity to become a leader of people.” —Simon Sinek.
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Tommy Lee Jones: Underused
“Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They are underused.” —Tommy Lee Jones.
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Andrew Mason: Lack of data
“My biggest regrets are the moments that I let a lack of data override my intuition on what’s best for our customers.”—Groupon founder Andrew Mason.
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Michael Jackson: In a world
“In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.” —Michael Jackson.
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Michael Jackson: Greatest education
“The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.” —Michael Jackson.
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Simon Sinek: Followers and leaders
“Followers want to be taken care of. Leaders want to take care of others. We can all be leaders.” —Simon Sinek.
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Theodor Seuss Geisel: Humor
“Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. … If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.” —Theodor Seuss Geisel,writer and illustrator.
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Simon Sinek: Better to go slow
“It’s better to go slow in the right direction than to go fast in the wrong direction.” —Simon Sinek.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: Things which matter most
“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.
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Simon Sinek: Progress
“It’s ok if others use our ideas as long as they build upon them. That’s called progress.” —Simon Sinek.
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Mary Wollstonecraft: Neither rational nor virtuous
“The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.” —Mary Wollstonecraft, reformer and writer (27 Apr 1759-1797).
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Lyndon Johnson: Thinking
“If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.” —Lyndon Johnson.
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Harper Lee: Majority rule
“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” —Harper Lee, writer (28 Apr 1926-2016).
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Simon Sinek: Innovators
“Innovators ignore the rules, not out of contempt. They are simply more focused on their vision than the things that stand in the way.” —Simon Sinek.
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Mother Teresa: Unwanted
“The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.” —Mother Teresa.
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Max De Pree: Define reality
“The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the two, the leader must become a servant and a debtor.” —Max De Pree, businessman and writer.
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Winston Churchill: Empires of the future
“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. —Winston Churchill,statesman and prime minister.
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Simon Sinek: Goal
“The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.” —Simon Sinek.
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Sean Connery: Smack
“There are women who take it to the wire. That’s what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.” —Sean Connery.
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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik: Inexpressible comfort
“Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath…
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Simon Sinek: Authenticity
“Authenticity is more than speaking. Authenticity is also about doing. Every decision we make says something about who we are.” —Simon Sinek.
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Jean-Michel Jarre: Infidelity
“I think that in any language when you have a real relationship, and there is love and respect between people, infidelity is always something difficult to accept – whether you are Chinese, British, French. I think that is a universal concept… or problem. ” —Jean-Michel Jarre.
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Olof Schybergson: Design
“Design is so central and at the forefront of the most interesting work in digital that simply hiring it in when you need it, if you need it, is not really a good long-term game anymore…. Investing in it and making it part of you is something that’s sustainable and trustworthy and believable to your…
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Simon Sinek: Belief
“Those who believe what we believe offer their blood, sweat and tears. Those who don’t believe what we believe demand more money or glory.” —Simon Sinek.
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Jerry Lewis: Every man’s dream
“Every man’s dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.” —Jerry Lewis.
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Simon Sinek: Stress versus passion
“Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion.” —Simon Sinek.
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Peter Kaufman: Five or ten X
“A trust-based, win-win culture that’s genuine in every respect is how to take the normal levels of human effort; such as productivity, co-operation, and ingenuity; and to multiply them by five or 10 times.” —Peter Kaufman.
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Peter Bevelin: Taking a stand
Librarian ‘If we can only gain from a situation, we avoid risk, but when we feel threatened or are in really deep trouble, we fight a lot harder and take larger risks. No one is as dangerous as the opponent who fights for his survival. It is like the story about the rabbit and the…
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Ray Bradbury: Don’t think
“Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.” —Ray Bradbury.
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Edward R Murrow: Accomplices
“No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” —Edward R. Murrow, journalist (25 Apr 1908-1965).
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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.
