Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Amruda Nair: Finding the balance
“What works for me is the cycle of eight, i. e., eight hours of work, eight hours of rest and eight hours of recreation. I do not believe in multi-tasking and eliminate distractions to focus on one thing at a time. Finding the balance is an art and only possible when you have a support…
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Eugenie O’Neill: Obsessed by a fairy tale
“Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.” —Eugenie O’Neill.
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Adam West: Blueprint for courageous action
“Of what use is a dream if not a blueprint for courageous action.” —Adam West.
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Anne Frank: Boys will be boys
“Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.” —Anne Frank.
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Simon Sinek: Great leaders
“Great leaders are idealists. They are optimists. They overestimate what we are capable of and inspire us to believe the same.” —Simon Sinek.
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Rene Descartes: Doubt all things
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.” —Rene Descartes, philosopher and mathematician (31 Mar 1596-1650) .
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Anna Sewell: All a sham
“There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to other animals as well as humans, it is all a sham.” —Anna Sewell, writer (30 Mar 1820-1878) .
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Prince Philip: Car door
“When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.” —Prince Philip.
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William Shakespeare: Time’s plague
“‘Tis the time’s plague when madmen lead the blind.” —William Shakespeare, poet and dramatist (1564-1616) .
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Johnny Depp: Message to my work
“If there’s any message to my work, it is ultimately that it’s OK to be different, that it’s good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.” —Johnny Depp.
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James Cameron: Failure
“Failure has to be an option. … No important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk. —James Cameron,filmmaker.
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Simon Sinek: Imagine
“If we work to make every day better than the day before, imagine what our days could be like at the end of our lives.” —Simon Sinek.
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Norman Rockwell: New adventure
“The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they’re always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.” —Norman Rockwell, artist.
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Simon Sinek: Authorities versus leaders
“Authorities act with themselves in mind. Leaders act with others in mind. Authorities take; leaders give. Authorities die; leaders live on.” —Simon Sinek.
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Thomas Mann: Opinions
“Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.” —Thomas Mann.
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Ursula LeGuin: Civilization
“If war has an opposite, it’s not peace, it’s civilization.” —Ursula LeGuin.
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Aamir Khan: My communication, my work
“I am not very communicative. My major communication with fans in India or anywhere else is through my work.” —Aamir Khan.
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Ram Gopal Varma: Graffiti on the walls
“Social media allows you to shout, but if someone wants to take the shout seriously, they have the choice to block it and they have the choice of not following that person. Social media is like graffiti on the walls.” —Ram Gopal Varma.
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Mark Wahlberg: Being a mom
“As far as I’m concerned, there’s no job more important on the planet than being a mom.” —Mark Wahlberg.
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William Wordsworth: Best portion
“The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.” —William Wordsworth, poet (7 Apr 1770-1850) .
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Angelina Jolie: Breaks my heart
“If you ask people what they’ve always wanted to do, most people haven’t done it. That breaks my heart.” —Angelina Jolie.
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Jefferson Davis: Majority rule?
“Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.” —Jefferson Davis.
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William Cobbett: Full belly
“A full belly to the labourer is, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace.” —William Cobbett, journalist, pamphleteer, and farmer (1763-1835).
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Simon Sinek: Leading and taking charge
“We are not leading when we are in charge. We lead when we are willing to let others take charge.” —Simon Sinek.
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Marquis de Sade: Manner of thinking
“My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!” —Marquis de Sade.
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Henry Clay: Religions and governments
“All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.” —Henry Clay, statesman and orator (12 Apr 1777-1852) .
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Simon Sinek: No need for each other
“If we were good at everything, we’d have no need for each other. “ —Simon Sinek.
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David Byrne: True face of smoking
“The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror – not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.” —David Byrne.
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Marilyn Monroe: Make a woman laugh
“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.” —Marilyn Monroe.
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Yuval Noah Harari: Real key to happiness
“For me, the real key to happiness is to know the truth; about yourself and about the world.” —Yuval Noah Harari.
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Simon Sinek: Inspiring versus manipulating
“If we inspire people, they will give us more than we asked for. If we manipulate them, they will give us exactly what we paid for.” —Simon Sinek.
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Clint Eastwood: Pessimism
“I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.” —Clint Eastwood.
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J K Rowling: Power to imagine better
“We do not need magic to change the world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: We have the power to imagine better.” —J.K. Rowling,writer.
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Simon Sinek: Being right and being honest
“Being right doesn’t make us trustworthy. Being honest makes us trustworthy.” —Simon Sinek.
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Peter the Great: Reform
“It is my great desire to reform my subjects, and yet I am ashamed to confess that I am unable to reform myself.” —Peter the Great.
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Alan Cooper: Goal of managers
“The goal of managers isn’t to make decisions anymore, but it is to assure that everyone on the team is working towards the same goal, and that everyone is fully informed of the costs, benefits, and tradeoffs of any particular strategic choice.” —Alan Cooper.
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Graham Greene: Happily individual
“Pain is easy to write. In pain, we’re all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?” —Graham Greene.
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Simon Sinek: Leadership
“Leadership is not a rank or position. Leadership is a service to be given.” —Simon Sinek.
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Greg Allman: Singing in the shower
“So many people out there can probably sing very good – all they need to do is just drop their inhibitions. That’s why most people do their singing in the shower.” —Gregg Allman.
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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.
