Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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James Madison: If men were angels
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. —James Madison.
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Ronald Reagan: Government’s first duty
Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. — Ronald Reagan.
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Frederic Bastiat: Government
“Government is the great fiction, through which everybody else endeavours to live at the expense of everybody else.” —Frederic Bastiat.
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Sunny Leone: Business and opportunities
“I believe in business, opportunities present themselves and it’s your job…to recognise those…and see where it goes.” —Sunny Leone.
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Prince: Bad children
“No child is bad from the beginning. They just imitate their atmosphere.” —Prince.
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Prince: Ego
“I had a massive ego [at youth]. Massive. But that’s not such a bad thing. Because at least you’re aspiring to be something, you consider yourself great because you want to be great.” —Prince.
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Prince: Getting paid
“All people care about nowadays is getting paid, so they try to do just what the audience wants them to do. I’d rather give people what they need rather than just what they want.” —Prince.
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Max de Pree: Servant leadership
“Who is a good leader? The first responsibility of a good leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.” —Max de Pree.
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Virchand Gandhi: Brotherhood
“We preach and practice brotherhood — not only of man but of all living beings — not on Sundays only but on all the days of the week. We believe in the law of universal justice — that our present condition is the result of our past actions and that we are not subjected to…
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Mahavira: Do not
“Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.” ― Mahavira.
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Mahavira: Red-hot iron
Can you hold a red-hot iron rod in your hand merely because some one wants you to do so? Then, will it be right on your part to ask others to do the same thing just to satisfy your desires? If you cannot tolerate infliction of pain on your body or mind by others’ words…
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Haruki Murakami: Suffering and memories
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.” —Haruki Murakami.
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Nicholas Sparks: Sadness and joy
“There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.” —Nicholas Sparks.
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Virginia Woolf: Happy in a world of misery
“To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.” —Virginia Woolf.
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W Somerset Maugham: Anything but the best
“It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” ~W Somerset Maugham.
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Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar: Fundamental rights
“If a person who is unemployed is offered a choice between a job of some sort, with some sort of wages, with no fixed hours of labour and with an interdict on joining a union and the exercise of his right to freedom of speech, association, religion, etc., can there be any doubt as to…
