Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Kevin Bacon: Fame
“Any idiot can get laid when they’re famous. That’s easy. It’s getting laid when you’re not famous that takes some talent.” —Kevin Bacon.
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Jean de La Fontaine: Prudent enemy preferable
“Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.” —Jean de La Fontaine.
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Peter Norvig: AI systems
“AI systems are fundamentally dealing with uncertainty, whereas traditional software is fundamentally trying to hide uncertainty.” —Peter Norvig, Google’s director of research, O’Reilly AI conference, New York.
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Marcus Aurelius: Right now
“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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Simon Sinek: Hope
“If there are people who care, then there is hope. If hope is lost, then no one will care.” —Simon Sinek.
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Ringo Starr: Ambitious
“Of course I’m ambitious. What’s wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.” —Ringo Starr.
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Robert A Heinlein: Sin
“Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other ‘sins’ are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful — just stupid.)” —Robert A Heinlein.
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Simon Sinek: Clear vision
“A movement starts with a clear vision of a world different than the one we live in today.” —Simon Sinek.
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Biju Dominic: Chameleons
“Humans are like chameleons who have the ability to change their colours to suit the surroundings. We speak softly in libraries, we are boisterous in stadiums. As soon as an individual enters an environment, she derives a certain understanding and a meaning about that surrounding. It is this meaning that influences how we act in…
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Richard Bookstaber: Crisises
“How we look at the world, even how we understand what someone else is saying, depends on context, and context changes with our experience and with circumstance. In the day-to-day world, these changes usually move slowly—though they do change: what we want for our lives, what we strive for and sacrifice for, are different at…
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Nancy Reagan: Tea bag
“A woman is like a tea bag, you can not tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.” —Nancy Reagan.
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George W Bush: Catapult the propaganda
“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.” —George W Bush.
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Dalai Lama: If you can
“If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.” —Dalai Lama.
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Sylvester Stallone: Rejection
“I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.” —Sylvester Stallone.
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Warren Buffett: Sedated rationality
“The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed triumphs. Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money.” —Warren Buffett.
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Simon Sinek: Fulfillment
“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—not the excitement or stress on any particular day—that defines our fulfillment.” —Simon Sinek.
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Julie Nixon Eisenhower: All leaders
“All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job.” —Julie Nixon Eisenhower.
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Michel de Montaigne: Unceasingly
“We, and our judgment, and all mortal things go on flowing and rolling unceasingly. Thus nothing certain can be established about one thing by another, both the judging and the judged being in continual change and motion.” —Michel de Montaigne.
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Richard Bookstaber: World cannot be solved
“It is a deeply held conviction within economics that our world can be reduced to models that are founded on the solid ground of axioms, plumbed by deductive logic into rigorous, universal mathematical structures. Economists think they have things figured out, but our economic behavior is so complex, our interactions are so profound that there…
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Nathaniel Hawthorne: Heroic world
“A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.” —Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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Gillian Anderson: Action, perseverance and facing your fears
“Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance and facing your fears.” —Gillian Anderson,actress.
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Akshaye Khanna: Insecurity
“Why is the feeling of insecurity so prevalent in this field? Because the actor is such a dependent person on other people. If I am a painter, poet, composer, I am not really dependent on others. While the profession of acting or being an actor is leaving your entire career open to people and the…
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Tony Robbins: To effectively communicate
“To effectively communicate, we must realise that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.” —Tony Robbins.
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Ellen Ullman: Interruptions
“Programmers don’t talk because they must not be interrupted… To synchronize with other people (or their representation in telephones, buzzers and doorbells) can only mean interrupting the thought train. Interruptions mean certain bugs. You must not get off the train. ” —Ellen Ullman.
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Herman Hesse: Words
“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.” —Herman Hesse.
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Herman Hesse: Sinister to the rest
“People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.” —Herman Hesse.
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Herman Hesse: Not our purpose
“It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.” —Herman Hesse.
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Pierre Cardin: Fashion now
“We undress men and women, we don’t dress them any more.” —Pierre Cardin.
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Tom Schulman: Upon my desk
“I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.” —Tom Schulman,screenwriter.
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Princess Diana: Fulfilling job
“People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me.” —Princess Diana.
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Jeff Bezos: Horizons
“If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people. But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you’re now competing against a fraction of those people, because very few companies are willing to do that. Just by lengthening the time horizon,…
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Mike Tyson: When Jesus comes back
“When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.” —Mike Tyson.
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John Dewey: Education
“Education … is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.” —John Dewey, psychologist and educational reformer.
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Jean Sibelius: Musicians
“[Musicians] talk of nothing but money and jobs. Give me businessmen every time. They really are interested in music and art.” —Jean Sibelius, explaining why he rarely invited musicians to his home.
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John F Kennedy: When the sun is shining
“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.” —John F Kennedy.
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Henry Fielding: Reason
“Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.” —Henry Fielding, author (21 Apr 1707-1754).
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Earning a living
“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.” —Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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Steve Case: Killer app
“The killer app is people.” —Steve Case on the NPR podcast How I Built This, 4/3/2017.
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Charlie Munger: Wise man
“Throughout his life, a wise man engages in practice of all his useful, rarely used skills, many of them outside his discipline, as a sort of duty to his better self. If he reduces the number of skills he practices and, therefore, the number of skills he retains, he will naturally drift into error from…
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Daniel Stillman: Conversation
“We’ve been conversing for thousands of years, and we’ve gotten pretty good at it. But being good at something doesn’t mean you know how to teach someone else how.”—Daniel Stillman re his Conversation Factory podcast featuring Nandini Stocker.
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Ross Perot: Which?
“Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?” —Ross Perot.
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Helen Keller: Optimism
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” —Helen Keller.
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Isabelle Adjani: Not in three days
“But no one frees himself from being in love in three days.” —Isabelle Adjani.
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Clarence Darrow: Objector and rebel
“The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.” —Clarence Darrow, lawyer and author (18 Apr 1857-1938) .
