Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Susan Sarandon: Being older
“I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.” —Susan Sarandon.
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John Wooden: Give it away
“Give it away to get it back.There is a wonderful, almost mystical, law of nature that says three of the things we want most—happiness, freedom, and peace of mind—are always attained when we give them to others. “ —John Wooden (Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court).
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Gwen Stefani: Two different worlds
“Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless – two different worlds.” —Gwen Stefani.
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Paulo Coelho: Haters
“Haters don’t hate you. they hate themselves, because you’re a reflection of what they wish to be.” —Paulo Coelho.
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Mahatma Gandhi: Service of others
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” —Mahatma Gandhi.
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Thomas Edison: Restlessness
“Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress.” —Thomas Edison,inventor.
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Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals
“Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.” – Benoit Mandelbrot, introduction to The Fractal Geometry of Nature.
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Jimmy Carter: Tendency
“We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.” —Jimmy Carter.
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Epicetus: Drop a few treats
“When children stick their hand down a narrow goody jar they can’t get their full fist out and start crying. Drop a few treats and you will get it out! Curb your desire—don’t set your heart on so many things and you will get what you need.” —Epictetus.
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Marcus Aurelius: Inescapable
“It’s silly to try to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.” —Marcus Aurelius
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Monica Bellucci: Good of the family
“In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.” —Monica Bellucci.
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Ira Glass: Taste is killer
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential,…
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Mark Zuckerberg: Platform for all ideas
“Trump says Facebook is against him.Liberals say we helped Trump. Both sides are upset about ideas and content they don’t like. That’s what running a platform for all ideas looks like.” —Mark Zuckerberg.
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Miguel de Cervantes: Discipline
“It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.” —Miguel de Cervantes.
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Babe Ruth: Nine greatest individual ballplayers
“You can have the nine greatest individual ballplayers in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.” —Babe Ruth,baseball player.
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Marcello Mastrioanni: Arguing
“With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten?” —Marcello Mastrioanni.
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Adrian Zumbrunnen: Good designers
“Good designers are good listeners. They start by understanding, not solving.” —Adrian Zumbrunnen
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Gwyneth Paltrow: Real investments
“My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me.” —Gwyneth Paltrow.
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Simon Sinek: Responsibility
“We take responsibility for our actions at the time we perform our actions, not at the time we get caught.” —Simon Sinek.
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Lisa Zeitlhuber: Emotions
“Emotions are so powerful they influence our perception, decision making, and even memory—the more emotional an experience the better we remember it.” —Lisa Zeitlhuber.
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Simon Sinek: People
“We should invest in people, not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people, and good people can always make a bad idea better.” —Simon Sinek.
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T S Eliot: Harm
“Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.” —T S Eliot.
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Ray Kurzweil: Double-edged sword
“Technology has always been a double-edged sword, since fire kept us warm but burned down our houses.” —Futurist Ray Kurzweil tells Fortune that artificial intelligence advances will do humankind more good than harm, if we use them carefully.
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Seneca: Peace of mind
“The greatest portion of peace of mind is doing nothing wrong. Those who lack self-control live disoriented and disturbed lives.” —Seneca.
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Elvis Presley: Image versus human
“The image is one thing and the human being is another. … It’s very hard to live up to an image.” —Elvis Presley, entertainer.
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Will Smith: Amplify
“Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” —Will Smith.
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Frank Lloyd Wright: Beautiful life
“The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.” —Frank Lloyd Wright, architect.
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Pedro Almodovar: More interested in women
“Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don’t know why I am more interested in women, because I don’t go to any psychiatrists, and I don’t want to know why.” —Pedro Almodovar.
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Simon Sinek: Rule books and frameworks
“Rule books tell people what to do. Frameworks guide people how to act. Rule books insist on discipline. Frameworks allow for creativity.” —Simon Sinek.
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Dwight D Eisenhower: Average thing
“As long as I am back in my military life for a second, I should like to observe one thing about leadership that one of the great has said — Napoleon. He said, the great leader, the genius in leadership, is the man who can do the average thing when everybody else is going crazy.”…
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Mickey Rooney: Transition
“Sometimes the transition from being in control of your life to having absolutely no control is swift, but other times it is so gradual that you wonder exactly when it truly began.” —Mickey Rooney.
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Simon Sinek: Do no work
“Work is expending effort on things we don’t want to do. Passion is expending energy on things we love to do. The goal is to do no work.” —Simon Sinek.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Worth
“A person understands himself not thru thoughts, but with actions. It is only thru making an effort that a person will understand his worth.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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Michael Faraday: Take all things quietly
“The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.” —Michael Faraday.
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Judy Garland: First-rate version
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” —Judy Garland,singer and actress.
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Simon Sinek: True friend
“A true friend is someone with whom protocol is no longer necessary.” —Simon Sinek.
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Bill Murray: Fame
“There’s only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing. Sometimes you can avoid a traffic violation. But the only time it really matters is in the emergency room with your kids. That’s when you want to be noticed, because it’s very…
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Sophia Loren: Fountain of youth
“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.” —Sophia Loren.
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Rafael Casal: Reeks of your influence
“First week of a break-up, you’re on my mind more than you ever were. So I clean everything in my apartment. Clean my way into forgetting, then I find things that I couldn’t when we were together. Your shirt, your favourite CD. Reasons that I liked you. Until my room reeks of your influence. ”…
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Marcus Aurelius: No intervals
“I call this life a happy one in which I do one good deed after another, with no intervals between them.” -Marcus Aurelius
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Russ Roberts: Causation
“So we manage to convince ourselves that the evidence speaks so loudly, so emphatically, that we have no choice but to declare our allegiance to a particular tribe as a result of that evidence. The red tribe. Or the blue one. Or the white one. Or the black one. It rarely crosses our minds to…
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Emil Zatopek: A reasonable goal
“You can’t climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don’t fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that’s reasonable, and then gradually raise it.” —Emil Zatopek.
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Max Tegmark: Not malevolence, but incompetence
“The real worry with advanced AI is not malevolence but incompetence.” —Cosmologist and co-founder of the Future of Life Institute Max Tegmark explains to the Guardian why we’re worrying about sentient machines all wrong.
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Karan Johar: Overconfidence and delusion
“Dear talent…I wish you would stay away from overconfidence and delusion…they are constantly conspiring against you… don’t you see it?” —Karan Johar.
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James Gandolfini: Vampires
“You know, all writers are vampires and they’ll look around and they watch you when you’re not even thinking they’re watching you and they’ll slip stuff in.” —James Gandolfini.
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Nayyirah Waheed: Beginning
“You not wanting me was the beginning of me wanting myself.” —Nayyirah Waheed.
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Brock Thoene: Harder
“It always is harder to be left behind than to be the one to go…” —Brock Thoene.
