Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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)
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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).
