Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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Priyanka Yoshikawa: Germ
“We’ve been struggling and it hurts. When I came back to Japan, everyone thought I was a germ.” —Priyanka Yoshikawa.
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Amitabh Bachchan: Measure of character
“Don’t listen to those who tell you ‘how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go’. Don’t let anyone believe that the length of your skirt is a measure of your character.” —Amitabh Bachchan, in an open letter to his granddaughters, Navya Naveli and Aaradhya.
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Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury: Moral policing
“I loathe moral policing. Who am I to decide on your behalf what clothes you should wear and who you should hang out with? It is my problem if I react to it and my upbringing needs to be in check.” —Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury.
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Buddha: Holding on to anger
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” —Buddha.
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Hillary Clinton: Diplomacy
“There’s noting fast or easy about diplomacy. I have no illusions about that.” —Hillary Clinton.
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Tommy Smothers: Censorship
“The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.” —Tommy Smothers.
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Trisha Gupta: Being a good husband
“Because being a good husband, as every woman who has beaten her head against her partner’s incomprehension knows, can’t just mean not being a ‘bad’ one. It just isn’t about not beating up your wife, not cheating on her, or not endangering your children’s lives. A healthy, happy, loving relationship needs positive words and actions…
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Lailah Gifty Akita: Preparing
“You can prepare for any challenge, if you daily nurture your mental, emotional, physical and spiritual well-being.” —Lailah Gifty Akita.
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Nina Leavins: Self care and medical systems
“If we all started using the Self Care System, there would hardly be need for the Medical System.” —Nina Leavins.
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Scott Hastie: Repairing cracks
“We too can repair our cracks with gold and glow again. Crazed by life, more beautiful than ever before.” —Scott Hastie.
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Jules Renard: Love, an hourglass
“Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.” —Jules Renard.
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Mother Teresa: Spread love
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” —Mother Teresa.
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Mother Teresa: Judging and loving
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” —Mother Teresa.
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Mother Teresa: No great things
“There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.” —Mother Teresa.
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Winston Churchill: Crocodile
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” —Winston Churchill.
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Archbishop Fulton J Sheen: Ten times as much
“Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord himself gave ten times as much of his life to her as he gave to his apostles.” —Fulton J Sheen.
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Freddie Mercury: Twenty years
“What will I be doing in twenty years’ time? I’ll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?” —Freddie Mercury.
