Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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Bayard Rustin: Dignity
“When an individual is protesting society’s refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.” — Bayard Rustin, civil rights activist (17 Mar 1912-1987) .
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Ruskin Bond: Man and beast
“To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast.” —Ruskin Bond.
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Chris Cornell: All about the brain
“In the United States, workouts tend to focus on body image and how you look. For me, it’s really all about the brain.” —Chris Cornell.
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Mustafa Kemul Ataturk: Returning to the past?
“Would not obeying to my mother’s warnings, who is at least 25 years older than me, be returning to the past? And rebelling against her would mean ruining my mother’s, who, I am convinced that, is a virtuous high woman, heart and evaluations. I do not find this right, either.” —Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
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Ben Okri: Beware
“Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.” —Ben Okri, poet and novelist (b. 15 Mar 1959).
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Simon Sinek: Profit
“Profit isn’t a purpose, it’s a result. To have purpose means the things we do are of real value to others.” —Simon Sinek.
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Pope John Paul II: Not social or political leaders
“You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.” —Pope John Paul II.
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Carl Sagan: Bamboozled
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a…
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Simon Sinek: Trust
“Trust is like love. Both parties have to feel it before it really exists.” —Simon Sinek.
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Idi Amin: The way I talk
“Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.” —Idi Amin.
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Simon Sinek: Great companies
“Great companies don’t offer us something to buy. Great companies offer us something to buy into.” —Simon Sinek.
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Luther Burbank: Nature’s laws
“Nature’s laws affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.” — Luther Burbank, horticulturist (7 Mar 1849-1926) .
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Peter Frankel: 300 miles away
“I used to run ten miles a day Heading west almost all of the way.A month later, at leastI turned back and ran east‘Cause I was 300 miles away.” —Peter Frankel in celebration of National Limerick Day.
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Pierce Brosnan: Humiliation
“Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It’s one of the deepest pains of being human.” —Pierce Brosnan.
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Dave Chapelle: When everybody is watching
“The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself especially when everybody is watching.” —Dave Chappelle.
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L. Frank Baum: Hearts
“Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.” —L. Frank Baum.
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Laverne Cox: Possibility model
“I would never be so arrogant to think that someone should model their life after me. But the idea of possibility… the idea that I get to live my dreams out in public, hopefully will show to other folks that it’s possible. So I prefer the term ‘possibility model’ to ‘role model.’ —Laverne Cox.
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Theodore Hesburgh: Most important thing
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” —Theodore Hesburgh.
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Mark Zuckerberg: Simple rule of business
“I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.” —Mark Zuckerberg.
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Shonda Rhimes: No, a powerful word
“No is a powerful word. To me, it’s the single most powerful word in the English language. Said clearly, strongly and with enough frequency and force, it can alter the course of history.” —Shonda Rhimes.
