Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Stephen Hawking: Success
“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” —Stephen Hawking
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Bob Dylan: Success
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do. -Bob Dylan, singer-songwriter (b. 24 May 1941)
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Edgar Allan Poe: Cognizant
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. -Edgar Allan Poe, poet and short-story writer (19 Jan 1809-1849)
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Mortimer J. Adler: Good books
“In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” —Mortimer J. Adler, philosopher, educator, and author (28 Dec 1902-2001).
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Sarah Hyland: Coffee
“I know it’s not something to complain about at all. But when they get your coffee order wrong in the morning…It ruins the entire day.” —Sarah Hyland.
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Sex and the city: Insight
“And why is it that we can see our friends perfectly, but when it comes to ourselves, no matter how hard we look… do we ever see ourselves clearly?” —Sex and the city.
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Anonymous: Friendzone
“Ladies, guys are sick of hearing where all the ‘nice guys’ are. They are in the friendzone, where you left them.” —Anonymous.
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James Boswell: Lash of wit
“He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.” —James Boswell, biographer and lawyer (29 Oct 1740-1795).
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Jesse Ventura: Organized religion
“Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people’s business.” —Jesse Ventura.
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Kevin O’Leary: Unions
“Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.” —Kevin O’Leary.
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Dada Vaswani: Enthusiasm
“Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish…Enthusiasm is the greatest asset you can possess, for it can take you further than money, power or influence.” —Dada Vaswani.
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William Penn: Popularity
“Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefits.” —William Penn.
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Sanjay Dutt: Drugs
“I didn’t leave drugs because of my family. I left because I wanted to be out of it.” —Sanjay Dutt.
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John W. Gardner: Excellence
“ We must learn to honor excellence in every socially accepted human activity, however humble the activity, and to scorn shoddiness, however exalted the activity. An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society that scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because…
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Walter Bagehot: Greatest pleasure in life
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” —Walter Bagehot, journalist.
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Kaushik Basu: Long speech
“When giving a long speech if you notice the audience stroking its upper lip, don’t be deceived. In all likelihood it is to hide a yawn.” —Kaushik Basu.
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Vladmir Putin: Health of the nation
“A healthy lifestyle is an extremely important thing which underpins the solution to numerous important problems, including the health of the nation.” —Vladmir Putin.
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Peter Drucker: Risks and mistakes
“People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.” —Peter Drucker.
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Peter Drucker: Requisite
“When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.”—Peter Drucker.
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Anthony Liccione: Green grass
“Ask not the grass to give you green, and then later walk all over it.” —Anthony Liccicone.
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Harold Wilson: Change
“He who rejects change is the architect of decay.” — Harold Wilson, former UK prime minister.
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Jeff Bezos: PR
“When the PR is good, don’t believe it; and when it’s the opposite way, don’t believe that either.” ~Jeff Bezos.
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Jeff Bezos: Ideas breed
“The great thing about ideas is that every new idea leads to two or more new ones. It’s the opposite of a gold rush, where the more people who show up in 1849 to get that gold in California, the faster the gold runs out. Ideas are not like that; ideas breed.” ~Jeff Bezos.
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Twinkle Khanna: Haircut
“A haircut is meant to be a relaxing procedure. Someone gently washes your mane, scissors fly around, and then after a blast with the only sort of hot air that one should tolerate, you leave the premises with a bounce both in your curls and in your step.” —Twinkle Khanna.
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Rudyard Kipling: Mothers
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. —Rudyard Kipling.
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Mahatma Gandhi: More beautiful?
It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful? —Mahatma Gandhi.
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J K Rowling: Unity and division
“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
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Osho: Disappear
“Nations should disappear, because it is nations who fight; religions should disappear, because it is religions who fight. The idea of races should disappear, because that has been one of the causes of wars.” —Osho.
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Stephen Chbosky: Unity
“And all the books you’ve read have been read by other people. And all the songs you’ve loved have been heard by other people. And that girl that’s pretty to you is pretty to other people. and that if you looked at these facts when you were happy, you would feel great because you are…
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Al Gore: Global warming
“The good news is, we have everything we need now to respond to the challenge of global warming. But we cannot wait.” —Al Gore.
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Albert Einstein: Can’t blame gravity
“You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.” —Albert Einstein.
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Miguel de Cervantes: Hunger
“There’s no sauce in the world like hunger. “—Miguel de Cervantes, novelist (29 Sep 1547-1616).
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Salvador Dali: Poet and idiot
“The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.” —Salvador Dali.
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EE Cummings: Always on the move
“America is always on the move. She may be going to hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.” —EE Cummings.
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Samuel Gompers: Labor Day
“Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.” —Samuel Gompers.
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Anonymous: Problems beginning with men
“Menopause, menstrual cramps, mental illness, mental breakdowns…ever notice that all of your problems begin with men?” —Anonymous.
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Jenna Brooks: Abuse
“If you have survived an abuser, and you tried to make things right… If you forgave, and you struggled, and even if the expression of your grief and your anger tumbled out at times in too much rage and too many words… If you spent years hanging on to the concepts of faith, hope, and…
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Patricia V Davis: Tough title to earn
“If I had a daughter, here’s what I’d tell her: One day, when you’ve worked hard for what you want, when people see that you are confident and intelligent and that you recognize your own self-worth, when you take care of yourself, support yourself, and stand up for yourself, that is the day that the…
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Katherine Boo: Annawadi
“Young people in a place like Annawadi aren’t tripping on caste. They know their parents have these old views.” —Katherine Boo.
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Clint Eastwood: Political correctness
“A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.” —Clint Eastwood.
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The XIV Dalai Lama: Willpower
“Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, “I am of no value”, is wrong. We all have the power of thought—so what are you lacking? If you have willpower, then you can change anything.” —The XIV Dalai Lama.
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Priyanka Chopra: Grief
“Grief is grief, and whatever grief you have, it follows you like a companion. Whatever you may do, wherever you try to escape, when you turn, you find it staring at you. I have a strange relationship with grief.” — Priyanka Chopra.
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William Arthur Ward: Pessimism, optimism, realism
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” —William Arthur Ward.
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Martin Luther King, Jr: Sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
