Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Jackie Kennedy: Marriage, three times over
“The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.” —Jackie Kennedy.
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Anne Hathaway: Life and possibility
“Weddings are important because they celebrate life and possibility.” —Anne Hathaway.
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Mahatma Gandhi: Forgiveness
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” —Mahatma Gandhi.
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Suhel Seth: Fun
“We make fun of accents; we make fun of attire ; we make fun of people’s food habits and what’s more, for ages, we have made fun of a whole community.” —Suhel Seth.
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Eunice de Souza: It’s not me
“I don’t sit and think to write something. The words come to me out of nowhere. I’ll just be walking the dogs downstairs and trying not to fall down, and suddenly complete poems come to me. They feel unreal. I end up feeling, ‘It’s not me.’ ” —Eunice de Souza.
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Mahatma Gandhi: Service
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” —Mahatma Gandhi.
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Shimon Peres: Middle East
“The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and – the most virulent cause of all – the absence of freedom.,” —Shimon Peres.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: Frame-flipping
“Racism tends to attract attention when it’s flagrant and filled with invective. But like all bigotry, the most potent component of racism is frame-flipping — positioning the bigot as the actual victim. So the gay do not simply want to marry; they want to convert our children into sin. The Jews do not merely want…
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Shimon Peres: Peace with the Palestinians
Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be. — Shimon Peres
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Tannishta Chatterjee: Breaking stereotypes
“By all means crack jokes on my complexion but do that by breaking stereotypes, not reinforcing them. What’s so new about calling someone black, fat or bald? It’s what some kids do in school because their parents don’t teach them how to behave. What’s so humorous about it? ” —Tannishta Chatterjee.
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Shimon Peres: Bikinis and tourism
One of the most important branches of the Egyptian economy is tourism. No bikinis, no tourism. So they have to decide what to do. — Shimon Peres.
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Shimon Peres: Husbands against democracy
You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don’t give equal rights to women, you can’t progress. —Shimon Peres
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Shimon Peres: Discontented nation
”The Jews’ greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We’re a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.” —Shimon Peres.
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Mae West: Body and English
I speak two languages, Body and English. -Mae West, actress, playwright, singer, screenwriter, and comedian (17 Aug 1893-1980) .
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Ingrid Newkirk: Vegetarianism
“Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40 percent and adds seven or more years to our lifespan.” —Ingrid Newkirk
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Gulzar: Conscience-keeper
A good storyteller is the conscience-keeper of a nation. -Gulzar, poet, lyricist, and film director (b. 18 Aug 1934) .
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Satya Nadella: Artificial Intelligence
“We are not pursuing AI to beat humans at games. We are pursuing AI so that we can empower every person and every institution that people build with tools of AI so that they can go on to solve the most pressing problems of our society and our economy.” —Satya Nadella.
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John Dryden: Pungent brevity
If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams — the more they are condensed the deeper they burn. -John Dryden, poet and dramatist (19 Aug 1631-1700)
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V Anantha Nageswaran: Consumer marketing and human rationality
“Both consumer marketing and human rationality cannot be true. Since the former continues to thrive, the latter is dead wrong. End of story.” —V. Anantha Nageswaran.
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Maya Angelou: Travel
”Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” — Maya Angelou
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Charb: Feet and knees
I’d prefer to die on my feet than to live on my knees. -Charb (pen name of Stéphane Charbonnier), caricaturist and journalist (21 Aug 1967-2015) .
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Simon Baker: TV and real life
“Anything can happen on TV. Where have you seen that done in real life?” —Simon Baker in and as `The Mentalist’.
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Suhel Seth: Unpalatable and irreversible
“Never leave someone with no choices. Because then the choice that is finally made is unpalatable and irreversible.” —Suhel Seth.
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Ogden Nash: Marriage
“To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up.” —Ogden Nash.
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Nicholas Sparks: Every day
“It’s going to be really hard; we’re gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. You and me… every day.” —Nicholas Sparks.
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Mark Twain: Full value of joy
“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.” —Mark Twain.
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Vinita Dawra: Celebrityhood today
“People’s adoration is not a simple, sweet thing anymore. For people are not as simple and unassuming as they once were. Public adoration today is tinged with envy, bitterness and a keen desire to switch places. Time was when a celebrity was considered a class apart, someone we all admired, revered and couldn’t hope to…
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Stephen King: Liar’s most useful tool
“The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.” —Stephen King.
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Rajshree Pathy: Good design, not elitist
“… we think good design is elitist. Because it is art. And we think art is elitist. While the procurement of art may be elitist, the people who make art are not elitist. Art itself is not elitist. We need to drill this into people starting from the government and downwards.” —Rajshree Pathy.
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Rajshree Pathy: Creative legacy of India
”The problem is the mindset. We have to stop saying we are a poor country, we are a poor country. We have our multiple utopias because multiple problems exist, but you have to handle them at the same time. You cannot reduce everything to the common denominator of poverty. Once you reduce everything to a…
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Rajshree Pathy: Indian utopia
“… the ‘Indian utopia’ exists at multiple levels. We asked a few people around what is their idea of utopia. The answers are so diverse. It could be easily, somebody’s meal. On the other hand, it could be a flat in Gurgaon. It could be a private jet. It could be your son going to…
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Arjun Kapoor: Not superstars
“The interpretation of being a superstar also changes, no? We are available to you constantly. Whether you go to watch a film or to a restaurant or to a friend’s house, we are omnipresent. To both the audiences and the media, especially because of social media. We are not stars because they know what we…
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Judith Marks-White: Autnomous anonymous
“The artist, whose work is farraginous, Prefers to remain autonomous. His art hangs on walls In the greatest of halls, But is signed by the name Anonymous.” -Judith Marks-White
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Shaktikanta Das: Reforms
“The depth of the reforms in India cannot be doubted. It is a unidirectional process for the last several years, especially in the last two years. The pace of reforms and the pace at which reforms are undertaken by the government, due weightage has to be given to that. You cannot say that I will…
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Joseph Nye: Terrorism
“Terrorism is like jujitsu. The small players win if they make the large player use his strength against himself.” —Joseph Nye.
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Anuja Chauhan: A very different India
“I would urge all young Indians to learn of their nation not just from the school books set before them (which vary depending upon the regime in power) or from the latest bestselling mythological potboilers, or from the rhetoric-laced speeches of politicians of every denomination, but also from the older folk in their own families.…
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Narasimhan Vaidyanathan: Project Managers
“Project Managers are not born overnight. It takes years to create a project manager with domain skills, expertise and quality skills.” —Narasimhan Vaidyanathan.
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Abraham Lincoln: Tea and coffee
“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.” —Abraham Lincoln.
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Henry Ford: Faster horses
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” —Henry Ford.
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George Matthew Adams: No such thing
There is no such thing as a ‘self-made’ man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts. -George Matthew Adams, newspaper columnist (23 Aug 1878-1962)…
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Amitabh Bachchan: Social media
“I don’t block my views on social media; I feel that it is good to understand that everything you know is not absolutely correct. There’s criticism and there’s abuse on my blog. If you imagine and think that you are infallible and you are without any fault, then what the heck are you doing in…
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Ray Bradbury: How to destroy a culture
The problem in our country isn’t with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. … You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. -Ray Bradbury, science-fiction writer (22 Aug 1920-2012)
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Stephen Covey: Cheating
“The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too. ” —Stephen Covey.
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Elie Wiesel: Culture
“Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future. ” —Elie Wiesel.
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Francis Chan: Culture
“Our culture is all about shallow relationships. But that doesn’t mean we should stop looking each other in the eye and having deep conversations.” —Francis Chan.
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Paulo Coelho: Culture
“Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.” —Paulo Coelho.
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Krista Tippett: Anger and pain
“Anger is often what pain looks like when it shows itself in public.” —Krista Tippett.
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Joseph Campbell: Hero
“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” —Joseph Campbell.
