Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Ed McGrath: Dreams and ambition
“Your dreams must have place for the less fortunate. Else it is only ambition.” —Ed McGrath.
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John Vianney: Salt
“We put pride into everything like salt. We like to see that our good works are known. If our virtues are seen, we are pleased; if our faults are perceived, we are sad. I remark that in a great many people; if one says anything to them, it disturbs them, it annoys them. The saints…
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Neil Armstrong: Overconfidence
“Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.” – – – Neil Armstrong.
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Bion of Borysthenes: Adapt
“Therefore we should not try to alter circumstances but to adapt ourselves to them as they really are, just as sailors do. They don’t try to change the winds or the sea but ensure that they are always ready to adapt themselves to conditions. In a flat calm they use the oars; with a following…
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Cecilia Ahern: Most painful moment
“The most painful moment in my life also became the moment I showed the most strength and courage.” —Cecelia Ahern.
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Martin Sheen: Civil disobedience
“I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.” —Martin Sheen.
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Daniel H Pink: Money as a motivator
“The best use of money as a motivator is to pay people enough to take the issue of money off the table: Pay people enough so that they’re not thinking about money and they’re thinking about the work. Once you do that, it turns out there are three factors that the science shows lead to…
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Milton Glaser: Three responses
There are three responses to a piece of design—yes, no, and WOW! Wow is the one to aim for.”—Milton Glaser.
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Baltasar Gracian: Just as important
“It is just as important to have studied men, as to have studied books.” — Baltasar Gracian.
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Sam Shepard: Horrible emptiness
“The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.” —Sam Shepard.
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Jeanne Moreau: Love and age
“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.” —Jeanne Moreau.
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Herman Melville: Chosen vehicle
“A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.” —Herman Melville.
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Knight First Amendment Institute: Unconstitutional
“We hope the courts look to this opinion as a road map in holding that it is unconstitutional for President [Donald] Trump to block his critics on Twitter.” —Knight First Amendment Institute, as quoted by Alphr.
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Dwight Eisenhower: Leadership
“By leadership, we mean the art of getting someone else to do something that you want done because he wants to do it.” —Dwight D. Eisenhower,34th US president.
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J K Rowling: Failed by default
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.” —J K Rowling.
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Harvey Spencer Lewis: I am
“I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday — or some previous day.” —Harvey Spencer Lewis,WRITER.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger: Resistance
“The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.” —Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Oscar Wilde: Good advice
“The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.” —Oscar Wilde, Writer.
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Dr. Samuel Johnson: Woman’s preaching
“A woman’s preaching is like a dog’s walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.” —Dr. Samuel Johnson.
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Benjamin Graham: Prosperity and safety
“Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of good business conditions. The purchasers view the good current earnings as equivalent to ‘earning power’ and assume that prosperity is equivalent to safety.” —Benjamin Graham.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Civilization
“A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
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Dag Hammarskjöld: Never
“Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.” —Dag Hammarskjold.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Long
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
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Chris Hoffman: RDBMS
“In no universe is etched a generic replacement for an RDBMS. In some scenarios, sure you could use one instead of the other. But not most.” ___ Washington D.C. developer Chris Hoffman.
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Jackie Kennedy: Two kinds of women
“There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.” —Jackie Kennedy.
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Simon Sinek: Greatness
“Greatness is not born from one success. Greatness is born from persevering through the countless failed attempts that preceded.” —Simon Sinek.
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Alexandre Dumas: Nothing more galling
“There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.” —Alexandre Dumas.
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Bob Black: You are what you do
“You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you’ll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.” —Bob Black, writer.
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Simon Sinek: Mature companies
“Mature companies fail because they forget WHY they were born.” —Simon Sinek.
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Stanley Kubrick: Pity
“You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.” —Stanley Kubrick.
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Banfield, Eriksson and Walkingshaw: Product leadership
“A great leader almost always has great management skills….A product manager may be a good or bad leader, but a good product leader must be a good product manager too.”—Richard Banfield, Martin Eriksson, and Nate Walkingshaw, from the introduction of Product Leadership.
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Garrett Martin Johnston: Biggest threat
“Technology by itself is not the real disrupter. Being non-customer centric is the biggest threat to any business.”—Garrett Martin Johnston.
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George Soros: Forgiving
“I recognize that I may be wrong…I am a very critical person who looks for defects in myself as well as in others. But, being so critical, I am also quite forgiving. I couldn’t recognize my mistakes if I couldn’t forgive myself. To others, being wrong is a source of shame; to me, recognizing my…
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Simon Sinek: Leaders and recognition
“Leaders don’t look for recognition from others. Leaders look for others to recognize.” —Simon Sinek.
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Adam Robinson: Focused attention
“If you feel a negative emotion, including fear, your attention is on the wrong place. Your attention should be focused on one of two things: the task at hand, or other people.” -Adam Robinson.
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Simon Sinek: General feeling
“Bad days don’t make it a bad job. Good days don’t make it a good job. Like a relationship, it’s the general feeling we get when we think about our work, and not the excitement or stress on any particular day, that defines our fulfillment.” —Simon Sinek.
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Jennifer Lopez: How they smell
“I judge people on how they smell, not how they look.” —Jennifer Lopez.
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Albert Einstein: Future thinking
“A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels…. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars.” —Albert Einstein.
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Marcus Aurelius: People
“People are our proper occupation. Our job is to do them good and put up with them.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Willem Dafoe: Work from mystery
“I think on some level, you do your best things when you’re a little off-balance, a little scared. You’ve got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing.” —Willem Dafoe.
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William Faulkner: Always dream
“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” —William Faulkner,writer.
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Simon Sinek: Friends
“Our friends don’t love us for what we do. Our friends love us for who we are.” —Simon Sinek.
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Werner Vogels: Decentralization
“To be clear; I am a believer in decentralization. Having built systems with that I can tell you it is not the magic dust you are looking for.” —Amazon CTO Werner Vogels.
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Henry Ward Beecher: Worry
“It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery but the friction.” —HENRY WARD BEECHER.
