Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Henry van Dyke: Talent
Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except the best. -Henry van Dyke, poet (1852-1933).
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Eva Longoria: Hunters versus farmers
“I’ve always said I want a farmer, not a hunter. Hunters go for the kill and they move on. A farmer nurtures; he watches things grow. ” Eva Longoria.
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Diane Grant: Walk alone
It’s better to walk alone than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.” — Diane Grant, Canadian playwright and screenwriter.
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Edwin Louis Cole: Limited men
“Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives. ” Edwin Louis Cole.
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Winston Churchill: Continuous effort
“Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential. ” —Winston Churchill.
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Nicole Scherzinger: Ruthless and selfish
“If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I’m definitely ruthless and selfish.” —Nicole Scherzinger.
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Ram Gopal Verma: "I missed you"
“The biggest lie in history has to be ‘I missed you!!'” —Ram Gopal Verma.
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Saint Francis of Assisi: Patience and humility
“We can never tell how patient or humble a person is when everything is going well with him. But when those who should co-operate with him do the exact opposite, then we can tell. A man has as much patience and humility as he has then, and no more.” —Saint Francis of Assisi.
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Thomas Szasz: Duty and selfishness
“It is easier to do one’s duty to others than to one’s self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.” —Thomas Szasz.
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Lao Tzu: Ambition
“Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. ” Lao Tzu.
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Sonia Sotomayor: Be known
“Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people.” —Sonia Sotomayor.
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John F. Kennedy: Purpose and direction
“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. ” ~John F. Kennedy.
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Edward Albert: Selfishness and selflessness
“Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.” —Edward Albert.
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Chris Evert: Tunnel vision
“To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.” —Chris Evert.
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Simone de Beauvoir: Love, misunderstood
“The word ‘love’ has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the misunderstandings that divide them.” —Simone de Beauvoir.
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Viswanathan Anand: Ambition
As long as you are ambitious, there is always unfinished business. ~Viswanathan Anand.
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Richard Flanagan: Writing and re-writing
“A good writer needs a good rubbish bin…I don’t think I’m much of a writer but I’m a better re-writer.” —Richard Flanagan.
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An Insight To A Sensitive Person's World
My Positive Outlooks Sensitive people are the most genuine and honest people you will ever meet. There is nothing they won’t tell you about themselves if they trust your kindness. However, the moment you betray them, reject them or devalue them, they will end the friendship. They live with guilt and constant pain over unresolved…
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Tupac Shakur: Somethin' to die for
“My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for’. —Tupac Shakur.
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Marc Freedman: Mentoring
“Mentoring brings us together – across generation, class, and often race – in a manner that forces us to acknowledge our interdependence, to appreciate, in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s words, that ‘we are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied to a single garment of destiny.’ In this way, mentoring enables us to participate…
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Sonia Sotomayor: Mentoring
“When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become–whether lawyer, scientist, artist, or leader in any realm–her goal remains abstract. Such models as appear in books or on the news, however inspiring or revered, are ultimately too remote to be real, let alone…
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Dag Hammarskjold: Firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer
If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, — quieter, warmer. -Dag Hammarskjold, Secretary General of the United Nations, Nobel laureate (1905-1961).
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Simone de Beauvoir: Cleaning cycle
“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled; the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day, day after day…” —Simone de Beauvoir.
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Someone Who Makes You Feel Loved
My Positive Outlooks Be with someone who is proud of you, someone you can laugh with, someone who listens to you, understands you, who treats you well and makes you a priority. — Brigitte Nicole of Lessons Learned In Life View original post
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Tyler Perry: Blue in the face
“What I’ve found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until you’re blue in the face–they’re never going to get it and they’re never going to change. But every once in a while, you’ll run into someone who is eager to listen, eager to learn, and willing to try new…
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Evelyn Waugh: Horrors and heaven
“The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a heaven that it shows itself cloddish. “ —Evelyn Waugh, novelist (1903-1966).
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Marsha Blackburn: Lasting legacy
“Everyone has a transferable commodity-knowledge. Sharing your unique expertise and making introductions for someone creates a lasting legacy.” —Marsha Blackburn.
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Albert Camus: Martyrs
“Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood – never. ” —Albert Camus.
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John C. Crosby: Mentoring
“Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.” —John C. Crosby.
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Steven Spielberg: Mentoring
“The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.” —Steven Spielberg.
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Leave If They Always Betray Your Trust
My Positive Outlooks Learn how to lead your heart; start recognizing when something isn’t good for you and be strong enough to let it go. A person can only waste the time if you give them an opportunity to waste. Stop trying to open doors for people who constantly shut you out. Make sure the…
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Finley Peter Dunne: Comfort
“Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. ” —Finley Peter Dunne.
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Catharine R. Stimpson: Specialization
“Specialization is a feature of every complex organization, be it social or natural, a school system, garden, book, or mammalian body. ” —Catharine R. Stimpson.
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Noam Chomsky: Terrorism
“Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.” —Noam Chomsky.
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Bruce Lee: Know yourself
“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. ” —Bruce Lee.
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Hal Higdon: Running long
“Running long offers a dress rehearsal. Running long teaches the stress of lifting feet 5,000 times per hour. Running long builds confidence.” —Hal Higdon.
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Solomon Ibn Gabirol: Jealousy
“Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire. ” Solomon Ibn Gabirol.
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Arthur Schopenhauer: True and untrue
“The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time. ” —Arthur Schopenhauer.
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George Will: Leadership
“Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it – short-term pain for long-term gain. ” —George Will.
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Donny Osmond: Island
“You’re an island no matter what you do. I think it’s very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to really know who you are inside, the core person, and follow what is true rather than follow what is hype.” —Donny Osmond.
