Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Osho: Political power
“Psychologists are aware of the fact that people who are suffering from some kind of inferiority complex are the people likely to be attracted towards politics, because politics can give them power.” —Osho.
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Freddie Mercury: Opera with a rock theme
“We’re a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It’s unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear.” —Freddie Mercury
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Ravichandran Ashwin: 150% madness
“I am 100 per cent method, 80 per cent skill and 150 per cent madness.” —Ravichandran Ashwin.
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Woody Allen: Emotionally disturbed teachers
“I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.” —Woody Allen.
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Dan Rather: Dreamy teacher
“The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called ‘truth’.” —Dan Rather.
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Howard Zinn: War on terrorism
How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism? -Howard Zinn, historian, playwright, and social activist (24 Aug 1922-2010) .
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Alexander the Great: Indebted
“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.” —Alexander the Great.
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Carl Jung: Warm teaching
“One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.” — Carl Jung.
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Dr. Seuss: Alone
“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room. ” —Dr. Seuss.
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Mother Teresa: Paradox
“I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.” —Mother Teresa.
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Mother Teresa: Little pencil
“I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.” —Mother Teresa.
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Sigmund Freud: Opposition
Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity. —Sigmund Freud.
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John Neal: Opposition, a great help
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. -John Neal, author and critic (25 Aug 1793-1876).
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Abraham Lincoln: Slavery
“Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature — opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.” —Abraham Lincoln.
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Gene Wilder: Happily ever after
“But Charlie, don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted… He lived happily ever after.” —Gene Wilder in Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
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Shefalee Vasudev: Liberation
“Liberation is a slow, painful, acidic process. You can take off a burkini and continue to wear a mask. Or take off the mask and remain clothed in fear. Nudity is a state of the body, but nakedness is a state of mind. We need to figure out for ourselves whether we want to bare…
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Gene Wilder: Neurotic
“So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I’m doing that, then I snap out of it.” —Gene Wilder.
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Gene Wilder: Invention
“Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.” —Gene Wilder in Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory.
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Gene Wilder: God
“I never thought of it as God. I didn’t know what to call it. I don’t believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.” —Gene Wilder.
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William James: Non-interference
“The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.” —William James.
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Karan Johar: Celebrating bodies
“I do not understand why we are not raised to celebrate our bodies as children. Why are we told to be shy? I am not suggesting that we should go around flashing ourselves and I am not referring to sex and all the complications that come with it.” —Karan Johan, film director.
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Ai Weiwei: Power
“In a society like China there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you power can crush you any time you want.” —Ai Weiwei.
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Gene Wilder: Morons
“What did you expect? Welcome, sonny? Make yourself at home? Marry my daughter? You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.” —Gene Wilder in Blazing Saddles
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Gene Wilder: Right track
“If I can make my wife laugh, I know I’m on the right track.” —Gene Wilder.
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Sam Peckinpah: Great streak of violence
“There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channelled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.” —Sam Peckinpah.
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Hillary Clinton: Hairstyle
“If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.” —Hillary Clinton.
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Abhay Deol: Hindi-indie
“So if we have a category called indie cinema which ticks a few boxes, such as it’s not star driven, not necessarily a musical, doesn’t have the same access to funds that mainstream Bollywood does, then perhaps that movie can be financed differently. Of course, people may misuse it, but that doesn’t mean it should…
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Lauren Oliver: Hours and minutes
“Even as each minute seems to take an hour, each hour seems to fly by in a minute.” —Lauren Oliver.
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Mohan Bhagwat: Cultures
“In a diverse world, every culture has to be respected and when all cultures are respected, the world will flourish.” —Mohan Bhagwat, RSS chief.
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Carl Jung: Addiction
“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.” —Carl Jung.
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Germaine Greer: Machismo
“The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.” —Germaine Greer.
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Adora Svitak: Not jaded or cynical
“Our inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our elders something, due to the fact that we are not jaded or cynical.” —Adora Svitak.
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Amjad Ali Khan: Music
“Music is a precious gift of God, and like flowers, colour, fragrance, water, fire, and air, musical notes do not belong to any religion.” —Amjad Ali Khan.
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Edward de Bono: Listening
“Listening to a subject about which you are uninformed is potentially more interesting than just repeating what you already know.” —Edward De Bono.
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Edward de Bono : Thinking
“Rodin, in his famous statue ‘The Thinker’, did thinking a great disservice by showing thinking as heavy and solemn. It can also be light and fun.” —Edward De Bono.
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Edward de Bono : Perception
“Perception is real even when it is not reality. Perception is how you see things, and you feel and react according to what you see—regardless of the underlying reality.” —Edward De Bono.
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Dorothy Thompson: Feeling nothing
“To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.” —Dorothy Thompson.
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Patricia Cornwell: Survival and success
“Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.” —Patricia Cornwell.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes: Right to swing my fist
“The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.”—Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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James E Faust: Efforts and scholarship
“We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.”—James E Faust.
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Isaac Rosenfield: Justice
“No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is.”—Isaac Rosenfield.
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William Faulkner: Practiced freedom
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.” —William Faulkner.
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Carrie Jones: Freedom and courage
“The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.” —Carrie Jones, author.
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Miguel Ruiz: Take nothing personally
“There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.” —Miguel Ruiz, author.
