Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Bruce Willis: Confidence
“I’ve always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.” —Bruce Willis.
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Charles Du Bos: Sacrifice what we are
“The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.” —Charles Du Bos,writer and critic.
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John Updike: Merely machines
“If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.” —John Updike.
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Nat King Cole: Anti-segregation
“Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.” —Nat King Cole.
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Benjamin Disraeli: Man, irrational animal
“Man is not a rational animal. He is only truly good or great when he acts from passion.” —Benjamin Disraeli.
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James Madison: Fetters
“The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defence against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad.” —James Madison, 4th US president (16 Mar 1751-1836).
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James Madison: Fighting a foreign enemy
“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.” —James Madison.
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Theodore Roosevelt: Best executive
“The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” —Theodore Roosevelt.
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Yvon Chouinard: If you wait
“If you wait for the customer to tell you what to do, you’re too late.”—Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard on the How I Built This podcast.
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Andrew Jackson: Take time to deliberate
“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.” —Andrew Jackson.
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Frederick Douglass: No freedom without agitation
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing the ground. -Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, editor, and orator (1817-1895)
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Albert Einstein: Science and religion
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” —Albert Einstein.
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Ken Schwaber: Scrum
“Scrum is like your mother-in-law, it points out all your faults.” —Ken Schwaber.
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Nimrat Kaur: Love and romance
“I like the idea of not having a definition of love and romance. The greatest love stories have been about people who haven’t come together. More stories like that need to be explored.” —Nimrat Kaur.
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Douglas Hofstadter: Longer than you expect
”Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.” — Douglas Hofstadter, professor of cognitive science (b. 15 Feb 1945) .
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Liza Minnelli: Regrets and fear
“The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.” —Liza Minnelli.
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Ai Weiwei: Internet censorship
“When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.” —Ai Weiwei.
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Rupert Murdoch: Business interests
“It’s a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven’t got any other business interests.” —Rupert Murdoch.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Truth
“I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people’s politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson.
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Sharon Stone: Scary and claustrophobic
“At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn’t going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing.” —Sharon Stone.
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Margaret Halsey: Crucial disadvantage
”The crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness, and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o’clock.” — Margaret Halsey, novelist (13 Feb 1910-1997).
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PZ Myers: Rethink
“If you’ve got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs — rethinking the world isn’t an option.” — PZ Myers, biology professor (b. 9 Mar 1957) .
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Thornton Wilder: Love is the bridge
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. Thornton Wilder, writer.
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J Sai Deepak: Being an Indian man
“If you are not chivalrous, you are called boorish or insensitive. If you are chivalrous, you can be accused of being a sexist. As an Indian man, you never know what aspect of your conduct is going to be viewed from the prism of gender.” – J. Sai Deepak, advocate in Delhi.
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Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach: Music and musicians
“A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.” —-Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.
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Michael Eisner: Succeeding and failing
“Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.” —Michael Eisner.
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Austin O’Malley: Memory
“Memory is a crazy old woman who hoards colored rags and throws away food.” —Austin O’Malley.
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Shashi Tharoor: National priority
“We need to make improving air quality a national priority; create state and national action plans for clean air; set tough new targets for thermal power plant emissions, factory chimneys and automobile exhausts; and establish a proper air pollution monitoring system.’Business as usual’ just won’t do.” —Shashi Tharoor.
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Michelangelo: Greater danger
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” —Michelangelo.
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Carl Schurz: My country
“My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.” — Carl Schurz, revolutionary, statesman, and reformer (1829-1906) .
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Karan Johar: Criticism and conjecture
” Criticism is healthy, as long as it’s unbiased. Conjecture is fun as long as it’s biased.” —Karan Johar.
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Joel Osteen: People respond
“People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.” —Joel Osteen.
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Michael Sandel: Liberalism and religion
“My main quarrel with liberalism is not that liberalism places great emphasis on individual rights – I believe rights are very important and need to be respected. The issue is whether it is possible to define and justify our rights without taking a stand on the moral and even sometimes religious convictions that citizens bring…
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Mary Karr: Memoir
“Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.” —Mary Karr.
