Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Craig Kilborn:The day after Christmas
“The day after Christmas: when we all have two more ugly sweaters.” —Craig Kilborn.
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Mao Zedong: Exercise
”In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.” —Mao Zedong.
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Dale Evans: Love in action
”Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.” —Dale Evans.
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Atal Behari Vajpayee: United Nations
”In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere. The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be. The UN’s unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose…
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Carrie Fisher: Fake affection
”You can’t find true affection in Hollywood because everyone does the fake affection so well.” —Carrie Fisher.
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Phil Ochs: True protest is beauty
”You must protest / It is your diamond duty / Ah but in such an ugly time the true protest is beauty.” —Phil Ochs, folksinger (19 Dec 1940-1976).
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St. Ignatius: Love and obedience
”It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.” —Saint Ignatius.
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Muriel Rukeyser: Stories, not atoms
”The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.” — Muriel Rukeyser, poet and activist (15 Dec 1913-1980) .
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Carla Bruni: People from the past
“I don’t believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn’t give strength; it just gives loneliness.” —Carla Bruni.
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Paul Klee: Art
Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view. -Paul Klee, painter (18 Dec 1879-1940).
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Ralph Fiennes: Extremely well informed
”I don’t feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they’re extremely well informed.” —Ralph Fiennes.
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Margaret Mead: One of the oldest human needs
”One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.” — Margaret Mead, anthropologist (16 Dec 1901-1978).
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Benjamin Disraeli: First love
”The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.” —Benjamin Disraeli.
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Elizabeth Andrew: Volunteers
“Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart.” —Elizabeth Andrew.
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Bill Walsh: Positive reinforcement
“People thrive on positive reinforcement. They can take only a certain amount of criticism and you may lose them altogether if you criticize them in a personal way… you can make a point without being personal. Don’t insult or belittle your people. Instead of getting more out of them you will get less.” —Bill Walsh.
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Judah Pollack & Olivia Fox Cabane: Not in a vacuum
“Success rarely comes through solo efforts performed in a vacuum.” –—Judah Pollack and Olivia Fox Cabane.
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Leonid Brezhnev: Free elections
“The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win.” —Leonid Brezhnev.
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T S Eliot: Harm
“Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them.” —T.S. Eliot, poet (26 Sep 1888-1965).
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John Glenn: Not by the calendar
”You should run your life not by the calendar but how you feel, and what you’re interests are and ambitions.” —John Glenn.
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Steven Spielberg: Different person, every single year
”All of us every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all our lives.” —Steven Spielberg.
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Manasi Kirloskar: Huge emotion
“Each and every emotion, even fear, has a huge potential to drive us.” —Manasi Kirloskar.
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Pope Francis: Culture of leisure
”Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.” —Pope Francis.
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Friedrich Nietzsche: Arrogant presumptions
“The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.” —Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Ari Zingerman: Beliefs
”Great organizations change their customers’ beliefs. Average organizations fulfill existing beliefs.” —Ari Zingerman.
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Jane Austen: The more you do
“There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”—Jane Austen.
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XIV Dalai Lama: Real tragedy
“When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways—either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.” —XIV Dalai Lama.
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Lawrence Summers: Main constraint
“The main constraint on the industrial world’s economy today is on the demand side rather than the supply side.” —Lawrence Summers.
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Gustave Eiffel: Jealous of the tower
”I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am.” —Gustave Eiffel.
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Raj Kapoor: Orphan without his parents
”A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.” —Raj Kapoor.
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Euripides: When a good man is hurt
“When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.” —Euripides,playwright.
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Helen Rowland: Sacrifices
“In older times, sacrifices were made at the altar — a practice that still continues.” —Helen Rowland.
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Harry S Truman: Leaders are readers
“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.” —Harry S Truman.
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Bob Dylan: Are my songs literature?
“If someone had ever told me that I had the slightest chance of winning the Nobel Prize, I would have to think that I’d have the same odds as standing on the moon… Not once have I ever had the time to ask myself, ‘Are my songs literature?’” —Bob Dylan.
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Ravi Shankar: Composer and performer
”In India, I have been called a ‘destroyer.’ But that is only because they mixed my identity as a performer and as a composer. As a composer I have tried everything, even electronic music and avant-garde. But as a performer I am, believe me, getting more classical and more orthodox, jealously protecting the heritage that…
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Rajnikanth: Autobiography
”In an autobiography, I will have to write the truth, I should not hide anything. Just to avoid people’s feelings, I should not be hiding things. If I don’t present events as they happened, truthfully, it is not an autobiography at all. I have read Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography and if I can muster up the kind of courage…
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Oprah Winfrey: Stop colluding
“Are you ready to stop colluding with a culture that makes so many of us feel physically inadequate? This is a call to arms. A call to be gentle, to be forgiving, to be generous with yourself.” —Oprah Winfrey.
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Christina Hendricks: Capuccinos every day
“Back when I was modelling, the first time I went to Italy, I was having capuccinos every day, and I gained 15 pounds. And I felt gorgeous.” —Christina Hendricks.
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Sonakshi Sinha: Body shaming
“Body shaming is as bad as racism, discrimination and bullying. Society keeps telling us that it is good to look a certain way and anything other than that is bad or ugly. As women, we have been fed with images that convince us ‘thin is beautiful’. We don’t realise we all aren’t meant to look…
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Viswanathan Anand: Revenge
”If revenge motivates you, go for it! But the main thing is to set your game in order.” —Viswanathan Anand.
