Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Anne Frank: Ideals
“I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. ” Anne Frank
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Unknown: Keep smiling
“Never frown, even when you’re sad, because you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile.” Unknown
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Frank Moore Colby: Temper
“Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours. ” Frank Moore Colby
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John Locke: The only fence
“The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. ” —John Locke.
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Miguel de Unamuno: Love
“Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. ” —Miguel de Unamuno
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Charles M. Schulz: One little hope
“A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope. ” Charles M. Schulz
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Blaise Pascal: Faith
“Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them. ” —Blaise Pascal.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Love
“It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. ” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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Daniel Libeskind: Life
“Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it’s about experience, it’s about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious. ” Daniel Libeskind
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Kingman Brewster, Jr: "Cool" generation
“Maybe you are the “cool” generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration. ” —Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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Robert A. Heinlein: Women and cats, men and dogs
“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. ” —Robert A. Heinlein.
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Rainer Maria Rilke: Love
“Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. ” Rainer Maria Rilke
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Henry Ford: Together
“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. ” —Henry Ford.
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Tom Waits: No devil
“Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk. ” Tom Waits
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Michel de Montaigne: Belief
“Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.”—Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592).
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David Ogilvy: Test
“The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace. ” David Ogilvy Related articles Ogilvy shit is hitting the fan as we speak…(adscam.typepad.com)
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C. S. Lewis: Love
“Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal. ” C. S. Lewis
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Booker T. Washington: Hate
“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. ” —Booker T. Washington.
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Kim Collins: Continuous improvement
“Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection. ” Kim Collins Related articles Brother of Caribbean sprinter Kim Collins killed by British police(caribbean360.com) Olympic ace Kim Collins’ brother shot dead by police(thesun.co.uk) Kim Collins races amid anger over brother’s death(nbcsports.msnbc.com) Sprinter Kim Collins’s brother killed in St. Kitts(nbcsports.msnbc.com)
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Confucius: Sun and moon
“The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them. ” Confucius
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William Drummond: Bigots, fools and slaves
“He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave. ” William Drummond
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Marcel Proust: Passing woman
“The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing.” Marcel Proust
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Nelson Mandela: Enemies as partners
“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. ” ~Nelson Mandela
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Mark Nichol: What the Hell Do You Do About Profanity?
What place, if any, does profanity have in writing? There are as many different answers as there are types of writing. Fiction Novels that purport to reflect real life must include profanity if the life they reflect includes use of profanity. This is difficult to accept for many people of a certain…
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Evan Esar: Character
“Character is what you have left when you’ve lost everything you can lose. ” —Evan Esar.
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Jeff Galloway: Finish
“To finish will leave you feeling like a champion and positively change your life.” —Jeff Galloway, U.S. Olympian and author.
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Unknown: Decisions
“When you have to make a hard decision, flip a coin. Why? Because when that coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you’re hoping for.” —Unknown
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Richard von Weizsaecker: Past, present, future
“All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone. ” Richard von Weizsaecker
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David Letterman: Hair trigger
“Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger. ” —David Letterman
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George Bernard Shaw: Likes and dislikes
“Forget About Likes And DISLIKES. THEY ARE OF NO CONSEQUENCE. JUST DO WHAT MUST BE DONE” —George Bernard Shaw.
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Jeff Galloway: A single step
“A lifestyle change begins with a vision and a single step.” —Jeff Galloway, U.S. Olympian and author.
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C. S. Lewis: Benevolence
“Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. ” C. S. Lewis
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George A. Moore: Everybody's something…
“Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do. ” George A. Moore
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Henry C. Blinn: Legal mind
“If you think that you can think about a thing, inextricably attached to something else, without thinking of the thing it is attached to, then you have a legal mind.” —Henry C. Blinn.
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Martin Luther King Jr: Directly, indirectly
“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality. ” “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of…
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Prince Philip of England: Change
“Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat.” —Prince Philip of England.
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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
