Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Carl Friedrich Gauss: Eternal spring
“Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.” —Carl Friedrich Gauss.
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Kevin Systrom: Start today
“If you’ve got an idea, start today. There’s no better time than now to get going. That doesn’t mean quit your job and jump into your idea 100% from day one, but there’s always small progress that can be made to start the movement. —Kevin Systrom,entrepreneur.
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Jerry Seinfeld: Underwear
“Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little bit of support, and a little bit of freedom.”—Jerry Seinfeld.
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Paulo Coelho: Encounter with God and eternity
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.” — Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist”.
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Penelope Cruz: Someone else’s point of view
“You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else’s point of view.” —Penelope Cruz.
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Glenn T Seaborg: Beauty in discovery
”There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite form in a molecule. Attempts to place different disciplines in different camps are revealed as artificial in the face of the unity of knowledge. All literate men are sustained by the…
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Ulysses S Grant: Strict execution
“I know no method to secure the repeal of bad, obnoxious, or unjust laws so effective as their strict execution.” —Ulysses S Grant.
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Cole Porter: Sole inspiration
“My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a producer.” – Cole Porter
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Kevin Nash: Hug and kiss
“The world is a mess. It seems that life gets harder on a personal level each and every day. Hug and kiss those you love every day. You never know when the tragedies of this world may visit your life.” —Kevin Nash.
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Diana Ross: Believe in yourself
“You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.” —Diana Ross.
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Katharine McPhee: Entirely preventable
“I have family members who live in Africa. Because of the family that lives there, I know what is happening in these countries, and it seems so silly to me that diseases like malaria are so prevalent when they are entirely preventable. Yet children are still dying every 35 seconds.” —Katharine McPhee.
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Al Pacino: Being famous
“The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.” —Al Pacino.
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Robert Lynd: History
“History may be read as the story of the magnificent rearguard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.” —Robert Lynd, writer (20 Apr 1879-1949) .
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Shirley Maclaine: Useless
“It’s useless to hold a person to anything he says while he’s in love, drunk, or running for office.” —Shirley Maclaine.
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Shirley Temple: ‘Your work makes them happy’
”When I asked my mother why crowds shouted my name and said ‘We love you,’ she would dust it off by saying, ‘Your work makes them happy.’ She never let it go to my head.” —Shirley Temple.
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Montel Williams: Natural state
“People are beginning to realize that it’s important that we see animals in a natural state – but through film, through video, through documentaries, at wildlife preserves, and through other humanely protected ways, which don’t involve… performing for us.” —Montel Williams.
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Charlotte Bronte: Conscience
“If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”—Charlotte Bronte.
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Immanuel Kant: Immaturity
“Immaturity is the incapacity to use one’s intelligence without the guidance of another.” —Immanuel Kant.
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Immanuel Kant: Room for belief
“I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.” —Immanuel Kant.
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Immanuel Kant: Experience and theory
“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.” —Immanuel Kant.
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Immanuel Kant: Weigh them
“Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.” —Immanuel Kant.
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Evo Morales: The Earth has rights too
“Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.” —Evo Morales.
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Immanuel Kant: Universal law
“Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.” —Immanuel Kant.
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Tony Robbins: Action
“You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.” —Tony Robbins.
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Tina Fey: Go down the chute
“You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.”—Tina Fey.
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Adolf Hitler: Big enough lie
“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” —Adolf Hitler.
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Maria Sharapova: Different
“I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.” —Maria Sharapova.
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Kourtney Kardashian: Ratings
“I don’t think anyone can fall in love for ratings.” —Kourtney Kardashian.
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Alice Walker: Intrinsic part
“Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.” —Alice Walker.
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Nikita Khrushchev: Wolves
“If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.” —Nikita Khrushchev.
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J K Rowling: Inexhaustible source of magic
“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.” —J.K. Rowling.
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Charlie Chaplin: Despair
“Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.” —Charlie Chaplin.
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Maya Angelou: Through the brain to the heart
“The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.” —Maya Angelou.
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Emma Watson: Embarrassing and confusing
“I find the whole concept of being ‘sexy’ embarrassing and confusing. If I do a photo-shoot, people desperately want to change me – dye my hair blonder, pluck my eyebrows, give me a fringe. Then there’s the choice of clothes. I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini-skirt. But that’s not me.” —Emma…
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Leonardo da Vinci: Smile in trouble
“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.” —Leonardo da Vinci.
