Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Hillary Clinton: Strength
”A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons. … America’s strength doesn’t come from lashing out. Strength relies on smarts, judgment, cool resolve, and the precise and strategic application of power. That’s the kind of Commander-in-Chief I pledge to be.” —Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State,…
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Ratan Tata: Leadership
“The (Tata) companies must focus on their market position vis-a-vis competition, and not compare themselves to their own past. The drive must be on leadership rather than to follow.” —Ratan Tata.
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Hillary Clinton: Forgiveness
”Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it’s a personal life or a national life.” Hillary Clinton.
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Arunoday Singh: Sunset
“Never turn away From a sunset, except To see it reflected, In your lover’s eyes.” —Arunoday Singh.
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Pablo Picasso: Becoming
”My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.” —Pablo Picasso.
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Arunoday Singh: Smiling
“You touch me, like a blind man caresses a face. Smiling, at all the details, mere eyes, will never see.” —Arunoday Singh.
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Donald Trump: Concentration of power
“As an example of the power structure I’m fighting, AT&T is buying Time Warner and thus CNN, a deal we will not approve in my administration because it’s too much concentration of power in the hands of too few.” —Donald Trump.
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Stephen Covey: Loyalty
”One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.” —Stephen Covey.
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Stephen Covey: What we are
“In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.” —Stephen Covey.
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Stephen Covey: Ultimate freedom
”Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.” —Stephen Covey.
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Stephen Covey: Change, choice and principles
”There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.” —Stephen Covey.
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Stephen Covey: Motivation
”Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.” —Stephen Covey.
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Stephen Covey: Priorities
”The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” —Stephen Covey.
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Stephen Covey: Private victories
”Private victories precede public victories. You can’t invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.” —Stephen Covey
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Phantasms
I know them to be phantoms, Phantasms of the mind, Not mild, not benign, Malignant spectres Mocking my divine. —Linus Fernandes.
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Steven Wright: Skylight
“I installed a skylight in my apartment… the people who live above me are furious.” —Steven Wright, Comedian.
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Suhel Seth: Orwellian thinking
”We cannot have an India, which harks back to Orwellian thinking where everyone has to think alike in order to prove his or her nationalism. Nothing will be more dangerous for our country if we question every person’s (who we disagree with) nationalism. We need to take a deep breath and calm down.We are the…
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Al Yankovic: Parody writing
Happy Birthday, Al Yankovic! “So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.”
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Donald Trump: Bad experience
“I say the one thing you have over me is experience, but it’s bad experience because what you’ve done is turned out badly.” —Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump: Rip the baby out of the womb
“I think it’s terrible, if you go with what Hillary is saying, in the ninth month you can take the baby and rip the baby out of the womb of the mother just prior to the birth of the baby.” —Donald Trump has his own take on abortion during the third Presidential debate.
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John F Kennedy: Women politicians
“I’m always nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.” —John F Kennedy.
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Aung San Suu Kyi: Fear and power
“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”—Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese pro-democracy leader, in her book Freedom from Fear.
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Bob Newhart:Stammering versus stuttering
Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of ourselves as very bright. Bob Newhart #InternationalStutteringAwarenessDay
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Shaggy: Next scare
”You never know where your next scare is coming from. You’ve just gotta find the courage to face it.” —Shaggy
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Hilary Clinton: Belittling women
“Donald (Trump) thinks belittling women makes him bigger. He goes after their dignity, their self-worth, and I don’t think there’s a woman anywhere that doesn’t know what that feels like.” —Hilary Clinton.
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Deepika Padukone: Food
“I love food so much that I can’t tell the difference between good food and bad food. For me, food is food. The minute I see it, it is yummy and I have to eat it.” —Deepika Padukone.
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Hilary Clinton: Different Donald Trump
“Donald Trump is different. I said starting back in June that he was not fit to be president and commander in chief. And many Republicans and independents have said the same thing. What we all saw and heard on Friday was Donald talking about women, what he thinks about women, what he does to women.…
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Michel Foucault: Life and work
“The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.” —Michel Foucault.
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Donald Trump: Great respect for women
”Number one, I have great respect for women. I was the one that really broke the glass ceiling on behalf of women, more than anybody in the construction industry.” —Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump: Flirting
“All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me – consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected.” —Donald Trump.
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Nirmala Sitharaman: Cautious Indian companies
“I think Indian companies are cautious but the time for cautiousness is over. They should have the bullishness.” —Nirmala Sitharaman
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Narendra Modi: Capable army
“These days, everyone is talking about the army. Earlier Israel used to be spoken of like this. Now everyone knows that our army can do it too and is no less capable.” —Narendra Modi.
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Arthur Miller: Don’t be seduced
“Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.” —Arthur Miller, playwright and essayist (17 Oct 1915-2005).
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Isadora James: Sisters
”A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life.” —Isadora James.
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Lin Yutang: Small men, big shadows
”When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.” —Lin Yutang.
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Donald Trump: True friend
“If I am elected President, the Indian and Hindu community will have a true friend in (the) White House.” —Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump: Drug test
“We should take a drug test prior (to the third and final debate) because… I don’t know what’s going on with her. At the beginning of her last debate—she was all pumped up at the beginning, and at the end it was like, ‘Oh, take me down.’ She could barely reach her car. ” —Donald…
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Dennis Ritchie: Where C should go
”When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn’t developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd.” —Dennis Ritchie.
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Steve Jobs: Connecting the dots
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – – – your destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the…
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John Keats: My brothers
Here’s a poem by John Keats entitled To My Brothers: Small, busy flames play through the fresh laid coals, And their faint cracklings o’er our silence creep Like whispers of the household gods that keep A gentle empire o’er fraternal souls And while, for rhymes, I search around the poles, Your eyes are fix’d, as…
