Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Brian Clough: Chairman and manager
“If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well. ” Brian Clough
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Gavin DeGraw : Women and fashion
“Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable. ” Gavin DeGraw
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Sidin Vadukut: The fear of change
Sometimes I don’t know why I even bother writing this column. Every week I reach into the depths of the average cubicle-dweller’s soul, dredge through the detritus and disappointments that dwell in the dreary darkness, and emerge, somehow, with stories of hope and joy and optimism. And what do you do? Ignore everything. Fed up.…
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Scott Adams: Trust
Trust changes people. They become what you tell them you expect. – Scott Adams in “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!”
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Robert Orben: Wisdom and feet
“Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it’s filled with wisdom. Sometimes it’s filled with feet. ” Robert Orben
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Shawn Wayans: Privacy and humanity
“You lose your privacy, and sometimes, people don’t see you as human. ” —Shawn Wayans.
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John Steinbeck: Ignore the bastard
“Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. ” –—John Steinbeck.
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John C Maxwell: Policies and principles
“Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do. ” —John C Maxwell Related articles Principles(bell-book-candle.com)
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Walter Elliott: Perseverance
“Perseverance is not a long race it is many short races one after another.” Walter Elliott
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Cicero: Appetitus Rationi Pareat
“Let your desires be ruled by reason. ( Appetitus Rationi Pareatt).” —Cicero.
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Will Rogers: Change
“People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument. ” Will Rogers Related articles There came a time when the risk to remain…(patriciaddrury.com)
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Benjamin Franklin: Small bundle
“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. ” —Benjamin Franklin.
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Robert Louis Stevenson: Consequences
“Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.” —Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet (1850-1894).
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Confucius: Goals and steps
“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. ” —Confucius
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Don Bosco: Render to Caesar
‘“Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and to God what belongs to God.” Therefore, according to the Gospel, any citizen can be a good Catholic – that is, side with Jesus Christ and the Pope, and do good to his fellow men – and at the same time side with Caesar, namely, observe the…
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Mohandas Gandhi: Social being
“Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. ” Mohandas Gandhi
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Dennis Waitley: Dream
“We’ve got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.” —Dennis Waitley, motivational speaker and writer.
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Francis Bacon: Good admonition, bad example
“He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. ” Francis Bacon
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Gene Tierney: Intensity
“I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity. ” —Gene Tierney
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Don Bosco: No politics
“A Catholic priest has no politics but the Gospel and fears no recriminations.” —Don Bosco.
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Woodrow Wilson: Pride
“There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.” Woodrow Wilson
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Jean de la Bruyere: Rise
“There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one’s own industry or by the stupidity of others.” —Jean de la Bruyere.
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Bert Williams: Artificial
“I named all my children after flowers. There’s Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial. ” Bert Williams
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Otto Weininger: Genius and madness
“The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius. ” Otto Weininger
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George Edward Woodberry: Old times
“”Old times” never come back and I suppose it’s just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that’s better. ” —George Edward Woodberry Related articles Defeated????(catseyesk.wordpress.com)
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Joyce Carol Oates: Running
“Running! If there’s any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can’t think of what it might be. In running the mind flees with the body, the mysterious efflorescence of language seems to pulse in the brain, in rhythm with our feet and the swinging of our arms.” —Joyce Carol Oates.
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Julie Isphording: Running
Run often and run long, but never outrun your joy of running. Julie Isphording, retired American long distance runner Related articles “Running marathons is a romance with life” – Ashis Roy, Marathon man of India(sportskeeda.com) The Lone Racer: Tips for Racing Alone(saltyrunning.com) The Way of the Entrepreneur: sprint or marathon(thedealdaddy.me) Introverts unite(fitchicksandfastwomen.com) Long-distance runners lap…
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African proverb: Go fast, go alone
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” —African proverb.
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Russian proverb: Do not spit in the well
“Do not spit in the well – you may be thirsty by and by. ” —Russian proverb.
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Don Bosco: Little liking for things spiritual
“Why is it that we have so little liking for spiritual things? This is because we love Jesus Crucified so little.” —Don Bosco.
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John Ruskin: Happiness at work
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it. –John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900) Related articles John Ruskin’s childhood home(oup.com)…
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C. Everett Koop: Single parents
“There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together. ” C. Everett Koop
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Frank Shorter: Racing…
Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It’s part of racing.—Frank Shorter, U.S. Olympic Marathoner.
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Josephine Silva Zimmermann: Girls
“Girls Need to start looking for guys who have goals,ambitions,and an education. Cause the yrs from now “Swag” isn’t going to pay bills ….” Josephine Silva Zimmermann
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George Sheehan: Running
No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life’s most rewarding experiences. George Sheehan Related articles Dr. George Sheehan(iruninspired.com)
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Alan Sillitoe: Running
“It’s a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do.” —Alan Sillitoe, English writer.
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Khaled Hosseini: Theft
““The only sin is theft. When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife’s right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.” ” Khaled Hosseini
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Joanna Southcott: Knowledge aft!
“What you know not now you will know hereafter. ” — Joanna Southcott
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Don Bosco: Effort, not results
“Remember, God does not pay us for results, but for effort.” —Don Bosco.
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Karen Kang: Humility and personal branding
“Having humility and doing a good job at personal branding are not mutually exclusive.” –Karen Kang, author, writing at ThoughtLeaders.
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Hal Higdon: Running
“Even when you have gone as far as you can, and everything hurts, and you are staring at the specter of self-doubt, you can find a bit more strength deep inside you, if you look closely enough.“ —Hal Higdon, runner and author.
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Hal Higdon: Running
“Hills. We love them. We hate them. They make us strong. They make us weak. Today I chose to embrace hills.” —Hal Higdon, author and contributing editor for Runner’s World.
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Hal Higdon: Running
Different people have different reasons for racing, but one is simply the incentive to get out and run, increase mileage and feel good. Hal Higdon, author and runner
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Don Bosco: Be neither stubborn nor fickle
“Be neither stubborn nor fickle. I have always noticed that fickle-minded people usually fail in all they do.” —Don Bosco.
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William Shakespeare: Faults and excuses
“And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. ” –—William Shakespeare.
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Hal Higdon: Running
“Motivation remains key to the marathon: the motivation to begin; the motivation to continue; the motivation never to quit.” —Hal Higdon.
