Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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George Schultz: Talking about losing
“The minute you start talking about what you’re going to do if you lose, you have lost.”– George Schultz.
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Joe DiMaggio: Natural leader
”A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.” —Joe DiMaggio.
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Friedrich Nietzsche: Grimace
“One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.” —Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Dale Carnegie: Flaming enthusiasm
”Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.” —Dale Carnegie.
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Arundhati Roy: Not a banker or an accountant
”I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.” —Arundhati Roy.
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Usher: Natural evolution
”Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you’re with an individual who isn’t moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain’t going to work.” —Usher.
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David McCullough: Writing
“To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it’s so hard.” —David McCullough.
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Erma Bombeck: Twelve minutes
”Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.” —Erma Bombeck.
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Chetan Bhagat: Demonetisation and patriotism
“The government changed physical dimensions of notes and made them incompatible with the ATMs. Now, it need not justify that mistake by saying stand in a queue for patriotism.” —Chetan Bhagat.
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Miley Cyrus: Imperfections equal beauty
“I don’t want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect.” —Miley Cyrus.
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Isaac Asimov: Cult of ignorance
”There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” —-Isaac Asimov, scientist and…
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Scarlett Johansson: Before involving someone else
It‘s important for people to figure out their own lives before involving someone else – to gauge where you are and work on your own issues. —Scarlett Johansson.
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John F Kennedy: Revolution
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. “ —John F Kennedy.
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Richard Feynman: Reality over public relations
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.” —Richard Feynman.
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Xi Jinping: Fruits of development
“China will not shut its door to the outside world but open more.We’re going to… make sure the fruits of development are shared.” —Xi Jinping.
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P J O’Rourke: Source of our troubles
“No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power.” —P.J. O’Rourke, writer (b. 14 Nov 1947).
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Voltaire: Absurdities and atrocities
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” —Voltaire.
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Machiavelli: Broken promises
“The promise given was a necessity of the past, the word broken is a necessity of the present.” —Machiavelli.
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Salil Tripathi: Women and clothing
”Forcing women to cover up—as the Saudis do—is wrong; forcing them to reveal more—as the French seemed to be saying—is also wrong.” —Salil Tripathi.
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Suhel Seth: Happiness
”Happiness is neither eternal nor does it embrace all people in the same way. Happiness is not only about what you feel but equally about how you interpret that feeling. “ —Suhel Seth.
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Sunil Bharti Mittal: Beg,borrow, steal
”Beg, borrow, steal, Africa needs to build infrastructure” —-Sunil Bharti Mittal #equalgrowth http://wef.ch/62173 #wef15
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Bo Derek: Impersonal really
”Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing – it’s something so impersonal really.” —Bo Derek.
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Norman Douglas: Advertisements and ideals
“You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.” —Norman Douglas.
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Leonard Cohen: What is a saint?
”What is a saint? A saint is someone who had achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love. Contact with this energy results in the exercise of balance in the chaos of existence. A saint does not…
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Mary Kay Ash: Bumblebee
”Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway.” —Mary Kay Ash.
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Rose George: Toilet rules
”Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of civilization: What is toilet training if not the first attempt to turn a child into an acceptable member of society?” —Rose George.
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Indira Gandhi: My father and I
”My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.” —Indira Gandhi.
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Paulo Coelho: Opinions
“Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.” —Paulho Coelho.
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Margaret Atwood: Men and women
“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” —Margaret Atwood.
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Danny DeVito: Two dilemmas
”There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won’t stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won’t go?” —Danny DeVito
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Robert Louis Stevenson: Anyone
“Anyone can carry his burden, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.” —Robert Louis Stevenson.
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John F Kennedy: Tolerance
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. John F. Kennedy #InternationalDayForTolerance
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Anjuly Mathai: Just being
“Most of us are striving to be someone who we know we are not. But when you surrender your individuality to an entity much larger than yourself, you cease to strive. Instead, you just are.” —Anjuly Mathai.
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William Pitt the Elder: Necessity
”Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.” —William Pitt the Elder.
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Roberto Diaz: Achilles heel
”Work to find your Achilles heel – the specific aspect of the music that needs problem solving” – Roberto Diaz, star violinist.
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Hilary Clinton: Raising doubts
“There are lots of reasons why an election like this is not successful (but) our analysis is that (FBI director James) Corney’s letter raising doubts that were groundless, baseless, proven to be, stopped our momentum.” —Hilary Clinton.
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Narendra Modi: 50 days
“Please bear with me for 50 days and I promise I will give you the Hindustan that you have always wanted.” —Narendra Modi.
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Nicole Ari Parker: Food, our medicine
We’re all moving at such a high rate that we have to grab the frozen dinners and the McDonald’s. We can’t make it a way of life – we have to get back to real, simple, clean good foods. It will save our lives on so many levels; not just spina bifida, but obesity, diabetes,…
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Jawaharlal Nehru: Greatest risk of all
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.—Jawaharlal Nehru.
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Prince Charles: Neither remote nor familiar
“Be neither too remote nor too familiar.” —Prince Charles.
