Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko: Translation
“Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful. ” —Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Embed from Getty Images
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Blaise Pascal: Uncertainty
“If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles! ” —Blaise Pascal. Embed from Getty Images
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Jeff Galloway: Exercise
“Our bodies crave exercise, and reward us in so many ways when we do so.” —Jeff Galloway, U.S. Olympian and author.
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Confucius: Excellence
“The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. ” —Confucius. Embed from Getty Images
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John F Kennedy: The greater our knowledge, the greater our ignorance
“The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.” —John F Kennedy.
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G K Chesterton: Argument against aristocracy
“The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work. ” G K Chesterton.
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John A Shedd: Safe ships
“A ship in harbor is safe — but that is not what ships are for. ” —John A Shedd.
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Jean Piaget: Logic and mathematics
“Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures. ” —Jean Piaget. Embed from Getty Images
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Rick Warren's Eight Principles For Managing Stress
Rick Warren’s Eight Principles For Managing Stress Principle of Identification. Know who you are. Principle of Belonging. Know whom you’re trying to please. You cannot please everybody because if you please one group you displease another. Principle of Accomplishment. Know what you’re trying to accomplish. Either live by priorities or by pressures. There is no…
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Unknown : Management and leadership
“Management works within the system. Leadership works on the system.” —Unknown.
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Erica Jong: Leased
If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair. Despair is for those who expect to live forever. I no longer do. -Erica Jong, writer (b. 1942).
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Mary Kay Ash: Exhaustion
“It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.”—Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, Inc.
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Thomas Mann: Order and simplification
“Order and simplification are the first steps toward mastery of a subject – the actual enemy is the unknown. ” —Thomas Mann. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/116051852
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Alan Turing: A short distance ahead
“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. ” —Alan Turing. Embed from Getty Images
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Plutarch: Courage
“Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage. ” —Plutarch. Embed from Getty Images
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Julius Caesar: Create
“It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life. ” —Julius Caesar.
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Florence Luscomb: Tragedy
The tragedy in the lives of most of us is that we go through life walking down a high-walled land with people of our own kind, the same economic situation, the same national background and education and religious outlook. And beyond those walls, all humanity lies, unknown and unseen, and untouched by our restricted and…
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Oscar Wilde: The incredible and the improbable
“The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable. ” —Oscar Wilde.
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Peter Drucker: Purpose of business
“The purpose of a business is to create a customer. ” —Peter Drucker.
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John Leonard: Hand to hold
“In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.” —John Leonard, critic (1939-2008).
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Albert Einstein: Greater peril
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. –Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955). Related articles Albert Einstein (pierreethier.wordpress.com)
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Alex Karras: Toughness
Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles. Alex Karras, American football player and actor. Embed from Getty Images
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Pierre Beaumarchais: Understand, to argue
“It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. ” —Pierre Beaumarchais. Embed from Getty Images
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Alexandre Dumas: Rogues to imbeciles
“I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest. ” —Alexandre Dumas. Related articles Tactically brilliant, strategically imbecilic (iterativepath.wordpress.com)
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Martin Feldstein: Science and judgment
“A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets. ” —Martin Feldstein. Embed from Getty Images
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Buddha: Unity
“Unity can only be manifested by the binary. Unity itself and the idea of unity are already two.” ~Buddha. Embed from Getty Images
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Richard Dawkins: A good theory
“A good theory explains a lot but postulates little.” ~Richard Dawkins.
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Harold Prince: Lifetime award
Embed from Getty Images “The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they’re handing it out.” ~Harold Prince.
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Bo Bennett: Diplomacy
“Diplomacy is more than saying or doing right things at the right time, it’s about avoiding saying or doing wrong things at any time.” ~Bo Bennett.
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Edward Kennedy: What divides us and what unites us
“What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us.” ~Edward Kennedy. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/84187535
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John Galsworthy: Untidy
“The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.” —John Galsworthy, author, Nobelist (1867-1933). Embed from Getty Images
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Alfred Hitchcock: Drama
“Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.” —Alfred Hitchcock, film-maker (1899-1980)
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Edith Hamilton: Education
“It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought — that is to be educated.” —Edith Hamilton, educator…
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Robert Green Ingersoll: True civilization
“The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. ” —Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899).
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James Carville: So much information, so little knowledge
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/155611572 “How can it be that we have so much information and so little knowledge?” —Political strategist James Carville.
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Daniel J Boorstin: Unsung heroes
“In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard…
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Sargent Shriver: Travel
“Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting. ” ~Sargent Shriver. Embed from Getty Images
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Sam Snead: Never let up
Embed from Getty Images “Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players’ minds the next time out. ” ~Sam Snead.
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Simone de Beauvoir: Genius
“One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius. ” ~Simone de Beauvoir. Embed from Getty Images
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Bill Cosby: Kids
Embed from Getty Images “Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you’re telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much. ” ~Bill Cosby.
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth: Something good
If you can’t say something good about someone, sit right here by me.” — Alice Roosevelt Longworth, writer.
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Plato: Partisanship
“The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions. ” ~Plato. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/159373629
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Tallulah Bankhead: Exactness
“Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.” ~Tallulah Bankhead. Embed from Getty Images
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Hal Higdon: Capacity
“Each runner’s capacity to absorb hard training is different. Find your own unique level of comfort and success will be yours.” ~Hal Higdon, author and contributing editor for Runner’s World.
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Elizabeth Fishel: Sisters
“A sister is both your mirror – and your opposite.” —Elizabeth Fishel. Embed from Getty Images
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Plato: Excess
“Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.” ~Plato. Embed from Getty Images
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Larry Bird: 100%
“I’ve got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.” ~Larry Bird, former NBA basketball player. Embed from Getty Images
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Horace Walpole: Bills of credit
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. -Horace Walpole, novelist and essayist (1717-1797). Embed from Getty Images
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Don Marquis: Self-reproach
“There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us. ” Don Marquis. Embed from Getty Images
