Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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William Wordsworth: Best portion
“The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.” —William Wordsworth, poet (7 Apr 1770-1850) .
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Angelina Jolie: Breaks my heart
“If you ask people what they’ve always wanted to do, most people haven’t done it. That breaks my heart.” —Angelina Jolie.
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Jefferson Davis: Majority rule?
“Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.” —Jefferson Davis.
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William Cobbett: Full belly
“A full belly to the labourer is, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace.” —William Cobbett, journalist, pamphleteer, and farmer (1763-1835).
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Simon Sinek: Leading and taking charge
“We are not leading when we are in charge. We lead when we are willing to let others take charge.” —Simon Sinek.
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Marquis de Sade: Manner of thinking
“My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!” —Marquis de Sade.
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Henry Clay: Religions and governments
“All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.” —Henry Clay, statesman and orator (12 Apr 1777-1852) .
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Simon Sinek: No need for each other
“If we were good at everything, we’d have no need for each other. “ —Simon Sinek.
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David Byrne: True face of smoking
“The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror – not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.” —David Byrne.
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Marilyn Monroe: Make a woman laugh
“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.” —Marilyn Monroe.
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Yuval Noah Harari: Real key to happiness
“For me, the real key to happiness is to know the truth; about yourself and about the world.” —Yuval Noah Harari.
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Simon Sinek: Inspiring versus manipulating
“If we inspire people, they will give us more than we asked for. If we manipulate them, they will give us exactly what we paid for.” —Simon Sinek.
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Clint Eastwood: Pessimism
“I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.” —Clint Eastwood.
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J K Rowling: Power to imagine better
“We do not need magic to change the world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: We have the power to imagine better.” —J.K. Rowling,writer.
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Simon Sinek: Being right and being honest
“Being right doesn’t make us trustworthy. Being honest makes us trustworthy.” —Simon Sinek.
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Peter the Great: Reform
“It is my great desire to reform my subjects, and yet I am ashamed to confess that I am unable to reform myself.” —Peter the Great.
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Alan Cooper: Goal of managers
“The goal of managers isn’t to make decisions anymore, but it is to assure that everyone on the team is working towards the same goal, and that everyone is fully informed of the costs, benefits, and tradeoffs of any particular strategic choice.” —Alan Cooper.
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Graham Greene: Happily individual
“Pain is easy to write. In pain, we’re all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?” —Graham Greene.
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Simon Sinek: Leadership
“Leadership is not a rank or position. Leadership is a service to be given.” —Simon Sinek.
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Greg Allman: Singing in the shower
“So many people out there can probably sing very good – all they need to do is just drop their inhibitions. That’s why most people do their singing in the shower.” —Gregg Allman.
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Martin Luther King, Jr: In the End
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
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John F Kennedy: Violent revolution inevitable
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” —John F Kennedy.
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Yuval Noah Harari: Censorship and power
‘The world is changing faster than ever before, and we are flooded by impossible amounts of data, of ideas, of promises and of threats. Humans relinquish authority to the free market, to crowd wisdom and to external algorithms partly because they cannot deal with the deluge of data. In the past, censorship worked by blocking…
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Dario Fo: Revolution in our hearts
“Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.” —Dario Fo, actor, playwright, theater director, Nobel laureate (24 Mar 1926-2016) .
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Henry Kissinger: Task of the leader
“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” —Henry Kissinger.
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Michelle Obama: Power revelation
“Being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.” —Michelle Obama.
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Simon Sinek: What’s right
“Many in leadership positions talk about what’s right. Only the true leaders actually do it.” —Simon Sinek.
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Paulo Coelho: Pray
“Pray with your eyes wide open, so you can see how people treat each other. Pray with your mouth open, so you can denounce injustices. Pray with your soul, pray with your arms, pray with your feet. Pray every time you give or receive love. Prayer is not a sign of weakeness, but of strength. …
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Epicetus: What makes a beautiful human being?
“Then what makes a beautiful human being? Isn’t it the presence of human excellence? Young friend, if you wish to be beautiful, then work diligently at human excellence. And what is that? Observe those whom you praise without prejudice. The just or the unjust? The just. The even-tempered or the undisciplined? The even-tempered. The self-controlled…
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John Wayne: Black and white
“If everything isn’t black and white, I say, “Why the hell not?” —John Wayne.
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Erich Fromm: Deeply responsive
“One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.” —Erich Fromm, psychoanalyst and author (23 Mar 1900-1980).
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Shannon L Adler: Read it with…
“Read it with sorrow and you will feel hate. Read it with anger and you will feel vengeful.Read it with paranoia and you will feel confusion.Read it with empathy and you will feel compassion.Read it with love and you will feel flattery.Read it with hope and you will feel positive.Read it with humor and you…
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Simon Sinek: Weak and strong leaders
“Weak leaders have the luxury of looking after themselves. Great leaders have the honor of looking after others.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Movement
“A movement only exists when people are inspired to move, to do something, to take up the cause as their own.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Business and people
“If you don’t understand people, you don’t understand business.” —Simon Sinek.
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Bob Dylan: All right now
“You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take…
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Queen Victoria: Great events
“Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.” —Queen Victoria.
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Roger Moore: Teach love
“Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents. —Roger Moore.
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Benito Juarez: Peace
“Among individuals, as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace.” —Benito Juárez, President of Mexico (21 Mar 1806-1872) .
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Simon Sinek: Things we love, things we hate
“We fight against things we hate. We fight for things we love.” —Simon Sinek.
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John Wayne: Sign of weakness
“Never apologize and never explain – it’s a sign of weakness.” —John Wayne.
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Henry Ford: Whoever
“Whoever does what he already can, always remains what he is already.” —Henry Ford.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Ghosts
“Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.” —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Naomi Campbell: Anger
“Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue… and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.” —Naomi Campbell.
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Dinos Christianopoulos: Seed
“What didn’t you do to bury me / But you forgot that I was a seed.” —Dinos Christianopoulos, poet (b. 20 Mar 1931) .
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Plato: Governed by your inferiors
“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” —Plato.
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Scott Adams: Mysterious ways
“The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.” —-Scott Adams.
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Honore de Balzac: More difficult to be witty
“It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.” —Honore de Balzac.
