Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Samuel Bacharach: Leadership traits
“The very traits that make a strong leader, if taken to their extreme, can set a leader up for failure.” —Samuel Bacharach, professor of labor management at Cornell University, writing at Inc.com‘s Pragmatic Leadership blog.
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Julius Caesar: Power
“If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it”. —Julius Caesar
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Robert Heller: Management myths
“The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill. ” Robert Heller Related articles The Law of Influence (traviswirt.com) Leading in the middle of the organization – the Destination Myth (leadershipadvantage.co) Top 5 Myths About Travel as a Management Consultant (consultingcareerquestcommunity.com) Heroes, Warriors and Other…
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Kara Goucher: Progress
Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking ahead. Kara Goucher
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John Maynard Keynes: Words
“Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.” —John Maynard Keynes
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Martin Luther King, Jr: Deep
“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.” —Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968), U.S. clergyman, civil rights leader. “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Why We Can’t Wait (1963).
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Zora Neale Hurston: Writing
If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself “Why?” afterwards than before. Anyway, the force from somewhere in Space which commands you to write in the first place, gives you no choice. You take up the pen when you are told, and write…
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Gwendolyn Brooks: Each to his grief…
“Each to his grief, each to his loneliness and fidgety revenge.” —Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917), U.S. poet. Boy Breaking Glass (l. 13–14). . .
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E M Forster: Typically three
“I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be. ” ––E M Forster.
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Pope Paul VI: Only so many tomorrows
“Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.” —Pope Paul VI
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Voltaire: Free speech
“I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.” –—Voltaire.
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Bruce Lee: No way a way, No limitations a limitation
“using no way as a way, using no limitations as a limitation.” —Bruce Lee.
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Donald Rumsfeld: War and death
“Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war. ” —Donald Rumsfeld.
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John Ford: True eloquence
“You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart. ” John Ford
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African Proverb: Sorrow
“Sorrow is like a precious treasure, shown only to friends.” —African Proverb.
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Mary Kay Ash: Recognition and praise
“There are two things people want more than sex and money… recognition and praise.”—Mary Kay Ash.
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Warren Buffett: Why?
“You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or whatever it may be. And if it can’t stand applying pencil to paper, you’d better think it through some more. And if you can’t write an intelligent answer to those questions, don’t…
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Philip Pullman: Writing
“If you can’t think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you’ve finished the three pages, don’t write it; it’ll be that much easier to get going next day. ” —Philip Pullman.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero: Bad times
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. ” —Marcus Tullius Cicero.
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Edgar Watson Howe: Stubbornness
“A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country. ” —Edgar Watson Howe.
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Chinese Proverb: Sadness
“You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent their making a nest in your hair.” —Chinese Proverb.
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William Randolph: The greatest right
“The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong. ” –—William Randolph.
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Pope John Paul I: I would have studied harder
“If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder” —Pope John Paul I
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William Hazlitt: Confidence and capacity
“As is our confidence, so is our capacity.” —William Hazlitt
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Doris Lessing: Most democratic of institutions
“With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one – but no one at all – can tell you what to read and when and how.” —Doris Lessing.
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Thomas Chandler Haliburton: Rich and poor
“No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings. ” Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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Margaret Lee Runbeck: Rebellious learning
“Learning is always rebellion… Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before. ” ––Margaret Lee Runbeck.
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Jimmy Carter: A strong nation
“A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It’s a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.” —Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.) (b.…
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Beatrice Webb: Diary writing
“It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one’s own identity. ” —Beatrice Webb
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Maxwell Maltz: Sell yourself
“Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself. ” —Maxwell Maltz
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Saint Patrick: Christ everywhere
“Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me. ” —Saint Patrick Related articles Behold the Cross of Christ (samuelatgilgal.wordpress.com)
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Pope John Paul II: Majority decision
“The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.” Pope John Paul II
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Tennessee Williams: Honest writing
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. Tennessee Williams
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Bennett Cerf: Blessed
“The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed. ” Bennett Cerf Related articles The Health Benefits of Laughter (everydayhealth.com) Quotes About Laughter (autumnsunshineandgabrielleangel.wordpress.com)
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Anonymous: Value of money
The easy way to teach children the value of money is to borrow from them. Anonymous
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Jeannette Rankin: As far as they will go
“You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go. ” Jeannette Rankin
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W.E.B. Du Bois: Presence
“If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.” —W.E.B. Du Bois.
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Bruce Jenner: Reading and dyslexia
“The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they’ve read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree. ” —Bruce Jenner.
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Quintilian: Writing
We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us. -Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus), rhetorician (c. 35-100)
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Peter E. Friedes: Self-absorption
Self-absorbed managers don’t care what employees think. They destroy morale, retard innovation, and block productivity improvements.” — Peter E. Friedes, former CEO, writing at Lead Change Group
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St. Francis: Make me an instrument
“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.” —St. Francis.
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Anne Rice: Now you know why you didn't ask…
To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner. Anne Rice
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Pope John XXIII: Men
“Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.” Pope John XXIII
