Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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APJ Abdul Kalam: Power of prayer
“God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.” ~APJ Abdul Kalam.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Self-respect
“He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. ” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet (27 Feb 1807-1882).
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Sun Tzu: War without fighting
“If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. But the supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” ~Sun Tzu.
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Mark Abley: Modern English
“Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to expand.” —Mark Abley, journalist (b. 1955).
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Lydia Maria Child: Affections and consciences
“The government ought not to be invested with power to control the affections, any more than the consciences of citizens.” —Lydia Maria Child, activist, novelist, and journalist (11 Feb 1802-1880).
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Jean De La Fontaine: Lion's skin
“Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.” ~Jean De La Fontaine. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/137080935
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Tao te Ching: Impartial acceptance
“Knowing the constant, we accept things as they are. By accepting things as they are, we are impartial. Then, we are part of Nature…and we are one with Tao.” ~Tao te Ching.
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Victor Hugo: Mirrors
“Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.” —Victor Hugo, novelist and dramatist (26 Feb 1802-1885).
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Gaurav Kapur: Conquer the world
“You will eat what you are told to, watch what you are told to, speak what you are told to. Is that understood, India? Now go conquer the world.” ~Gaurav Kapur.
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Cause of conflict
“If there is no substance, human values, compassion love, nor any sense of belongingness, then holding onto rituals and outer identity of religion causes more and more conflicts in the world.” ~Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. Embed from Getty Images
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Chetan Bhagat: Porn ban
“Don’t ban porn. Ban men ogling, leering, brushing past, groping, molesting, abusing, humiliating and raping women. Ban non-consent. Not sex.” ~Chetan Bhagat.
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Minissha Lamba: Books and bans
“Maybe soon, we can expect #Twitter ban, #Facebook ban, #YouTube ban…Will be back to reading books..Oh no! They may be banned too.” ~Minissha Lamba.
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Anushka Sharma: Ban mentality
“We are breeding a ban mentality…irritating people to the degree that it’s suffocating them.” ~Anushka Sharma.
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Henry Adams: Teaching
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” —Henry Adams, historian and teacher (16 Feb 1838-1918).
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Constantin Brancusi: Architecture
“Architecture is inhabited sculpture.” —Constantin Brancusi, sculptor (19 Feb 1876-1957).
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Margaret Halsey: Education
“In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.” —#MargaretHalsey, novelist (13 Feb 1910-1997).
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George T. Angell: Roots
I’m sometimes asked “Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?” I answer: “I am working at the roots.” -George T. Angell, reformer (5 Jun 1823-1909).
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Ogden Nash: Babies
“Everybody who has a baby thinks everybody who hasn’t a baby ought to have a baby.” ~Ogden Nash.
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Munshi Premchand: Trust and love
“Trust is the first step to love. ” —Munshi Premchand, novelist and poet (31 Jul 1880-1936) .
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APJ Abdul Kalam: Prosperous and safe India
“We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India.” ~APJ Abdul Kalam.
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Emile Chartier: Dangerous
“Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it’s the only one you have. ” —Emile Chartier, philosopher (3 Mar 1868-1951).
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APJ Abdul Kalam: Way to progress
“Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action converts adversity into prosperity.” ~APJ Abdul Kalam.
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EM Forster: Prosaic passion
“Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted…Live in fragments no more.” —EM Forster.
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Henry W Beecher: Thankful heart
“The unthankful heart … discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!” ~Henry W Beecher.
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Marcel Duchamp: Own taste
“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.” —Marcel Duchamp, artist (28 Jul 1887-1968).
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Henry David Thoreau: Disobedience
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” —Henry David Thoreau.
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Fred Allen: Lover's lane
“The last time I saw him, he was walking down lover’s lane holding his own hand.” ~Fred Allen.
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William Wiley: All the time
“I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you’ll need right up to the day you die.” —William Wiley, artist (b. 1937).
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Deng Xiaoping: Cats and mice
“It doesn’t matter if the cat is black or white; what matters is how well it catches mice.” ~Deng Xiaoping. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/107421871
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Edgar Allan Poe: Eloquent enthusiasm
“Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.” ~Edgar Allan Poe.
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George Gamow: Making of man
“It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!” —George Gamow, physicist and cosmologist (4 Mar 1904-1968).
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Ayn Rand: Civilization
“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public.” ~Ayn Rand.
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Jose Mourinho: Competitive, Aggressive, Consumive, Selfish
“The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.” ~Jose Mourinho.
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Imelda Marcos: Beauty and garbage
“People say I’m extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But who wants to be surrounded by garbage?” ~Imelda Marcos.
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Jack Welch: Competitive advantage
“If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.” ~Jack Welch.
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Howard Jacobson: Superficial change
“That was what was cruel about superficial change. It exposed what could never change.” ~Howard Jacobson.
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Edgar Quinet: Time
“Time is the fairest and toughest judge.” —Edgar Quinet, historian (17 Feb 1803-1875).
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Dr. Seuss: You
“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” —Dr. Seuss, author and illustrator (2 Mar 1904-1991).
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Paulo Coelho: Memories
“Memories are like salt: the right amount brings out the flavor in food, too much ruins it.” ~Paulo Coelho.
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William Beveridge: Defender of privilege
“Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.” —William Beveridge, economist and reformer (5 Mar 1879-1963).
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Baltasar Gracián: Competition
“Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.” ― Baltasar Gracián.
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Michelangelo Buonarroti: Angel in the marble
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” —Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet (6 Mar 1475-1564).
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Jiddu Krishnamurti: Real learning
“Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.” ― Jiddu Krishnamurti.
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Isaac Disraeli: Language
“While language is forming, writers are applauded for extending its limits; when established, for restricting themselves to them.” —Isaac Disraeli, writer (1766-1848).
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Dictionary
“The raw material of possible poems and histories.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist and poet, on dictionary (1803-1882).
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Milton Berle: Experience
“Experience is what you have after you’ve forgotten her name.” ~Milton Berle.
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Charles Kingsley: Yesterday's sneer, yesterday's frown
“The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday’s sneer and yesterday’s frown can never come over again.” ~Charles Kingsley.
