Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Katherine Hepburn: Men and women
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/110183516 “Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.” ~Katherine Hepburn.
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Condoleezza Rice: Headlines and history
“Today’s headlines and history’s judgment are rarely the same.” –Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
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Sigmund Freud: Small and large matters
“In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart. ” —Sigmund Freud. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/107875010
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Tommy Politz: Information and application
“Information without application leads to deception. Information with application leads to transformation. Based on Hebrews 10” Tommy Politz.
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Henry David Thoreau: What do you see?
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. ” —Henry David Thoreau. Embed from Getty Images
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Unknown: Burning bridges
“Burning bridges isn’t always a bad thing… sometimes it’s the only thing keeping you from going back to somewhere you never should have been to begin with!!!” unknown
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Nicolas de Chamfort: Pleasure and happiness
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality. -Nicolas de Chamfort, writer (6 Apr 1741-1794).
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Aristotle: Fear
“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. ” —Aristotle. Embed from Getty Images
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Anonymous: Tourists and terrorists
“Tourists are terrorists with cameras. Terrorists are tourists with guns.” —Anon. Embed from Getty Images
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John Ellerton: Easter
Take with you the joy of Easter to the home, and make that home bright with more unselfish love, more hearty service; take it into your work, and do all in the name of the Lord Jesus; take it to your heart, and let that heart rise anew on Easter wings to a higher,…
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Henry David Thoreau: Freedom and the law
“The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free. ” —Henry David Thoreau. Embed from Getty Images
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Not enough
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer, artist, and politician. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/464664771
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Dale Turner: New beauty
“No matter our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.” ~Dale Turner.
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Phillips Brooks: Good Friday
“We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That is the wonder of our Saviour’s crucifixion. There have been victories all over the world, but wherever we look for the victor we expect to find him with his heel…
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Jose Marti: Passion and interest
“The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest. ” —Jose Marti. Embed from Getty Images
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Alexander Graham Bell: Man
“Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.” —Alexander Graham Bell.
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Chinese Proverb: Fooling around
“Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.” ~Chinese Proverb.
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Mark Twain: April 1
“April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.” ~Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson, 1894.
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Walter Chrysler: Enthusiasm
“The real secret of success is enthusiasm. ” —Walter Chrysler. Embed from Getty Images
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Heinrich Heine: Book-burning
Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned. -Heinrich Heine, poet, journalist, and essayist (1797-1856).
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Anushka Sharma: Frivolous
“When you talk about your relationship in public, you make it frivolous.” ~Anushka Sharma. Embed from Getty Images
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Norman Schwarzkopf: Strategy and character
“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. ” — Norman Schwarzkopf.
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Lauren Bacall: Worry
“You can’t start worrying about what’s going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what’s happening now. ” —Lauren Bacall. Embed from Getty Images
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Karen Kingsbury: Good enough
“If a girl makes you feel like you’re not good enough, then maybe you never will be.” —Karen Kingsbury. Embed from Getty Images
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Joan Baez: Decide
“You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now. ” —Joan Baez. Embed from Getty Images
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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)
