Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Marianne Williamson: Playing small
“Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone, and as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give…
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Raphael: Vindictive bandit
“Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. We are left with sagging, rippled flesh and burning gums with empty sockets.” —Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino or Raphael.
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Anonymous: Hell
“Somebody once told me the definition of hell: ‘On your last day on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.’” — Anonymous.
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Jerry Pinto: Flawed
“It is easier for me to say I am flawed than to admit that someone I love is flawed. It is much worse for a parent. Their children are perfect in their eyes and they want them to be seen as perfect by the rest of the world. Their children are their weakness and what…
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Louis L’Amour: Twice a fool
“A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.” —Louis L’Amour, novelist (22 Mar 1908-1988).
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Louis L’Amour: In mind
“He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.” —Louis L’Amour.
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Ramani Durvasala: Social comparison on steroids
” Social media is social comparison on steroids.” —Ramani Durvasala.
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Martin McGuiness: Different point of view
“In fact, I would defend to the death their right to express a different point of view.” —Martin McGuinness.
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David Rockefeller: Japanese art
“The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.” —David Rockefeller.
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Johann Sebastian Bach: Music
“The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.” —Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Jerry Pinto: Who we really are
“We are none of us who we should be. We know who we can be. We just don’t seem to be that person.” —Jerry Pinto.
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Twinkle Khanna: Undermining
“By calling a woman ‘sexy’ in a working environment, you are undermining everything she has worked for, the stereotypes she has had to break, the pride she takes in her abilities, and the inevitable guilt that she feels about not being home with her children, just to be there in that office, trying to make…
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Twinkle Khanna: ‘Sexy’
”‘Sexy’ is an acceptable compliment within a work environment only if she is a stripper and you are her pimp trying to boost her confidence before she takes the stage.” —Twinkle Khanna.
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Alia Bhatt: Feminism
“Being a feminist is not only limited to girls. Even a man can be a feminist. It is about equality and everyone believes in equality. People usually misunderstand the essence of feminism. It is not about male bashing.” —Alia Bhatt.
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Shah Rukh Khan: Social media
“The good point about social media is you can put your point across. I do find good-thinking, smart, intelligent people going out there and kind of making a fool of themselves by refuting (rumours). You can’t spend your life explaining things and what you feel and what you mean to people.” —Shah Rukh Khan.
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Chuck Berry: Earnest intentions
“It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.” —Chuck Berry.
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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)
