Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Rollo May: Doubtful commitment
“The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it’s not without doubt but in spite of doubt. ” Rollo May Related articles Moving Through Fear(deborahcampbellcoach.com) The 5 Positive Powers of Self-Doubt(empwaynek.wordpress.com)
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Benjamin Cohen: At the end of the day…
“At the end of the day I’m pleased with the site I created. ” Benjamin Cohen
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Mark Twain: Truth and fiction
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.” —Mark Twain.
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Adam Smith: Discipline
“The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. ” —Adam Smith Related articles Goal clarity(observer.org.sz) QOTD: Adam Smith on Banking(ritholtz.com) Guest Post: The Dark Age Of Money(zerohedge.com) Elusive ‘wealth of nations’…
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John Erskine: The written and the spoken
“The great men in literature have usually tried to bring the written word into harmony with the spoken, instead of encouraging an exclusive language to write in.” —John Erskine, novelist, poet, and essayist (1879-1951).
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Unknown: Fruit tree in winter
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
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William Least Heat-Moon: Beware…
“Beware thoughts that come in the night. ” —William Least Heat-Moon Related articles Quote of the Day: William Least Heat Moon(allaboardbeat.wordpress.com)
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Olin Miller: What people think
“You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. ” Olin Miller
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Lao Tzu: Love and courage
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” –Lao Tzu
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Rod Laver: The next point
“The next point – that’s all you must think about. ” —Rod Laver Related articles Mary Laver, wife of Rod Laver, dies at 84(miamiherald.com) Top 5 left handed sportsmen(sportskeeda.com) Mary Laver, wife of Rod Laver, dies at 84(kansascity.com) Mary Laver, wife of Rod Laver, dies at 84(sportsillustrated.cnn.com) Mary Laver, wife of Rod Laver, dies at…
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Mark Twain: Reading
“A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read. ” —Mark Twain.
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Kahlil Gibran: Giving
“You give little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.” —Kahlil Gibran.
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Anais Nin: Living ideas
“My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.” —Anais Nin.
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Roberto Rosselini: On actresses
“Don’t get married to an actress because they’re also actresses in bed. ” Roberto Rosselini Related articles Bella Donna: Isabella Rossellini(bellasugar.com) Ingrid Bergman’s letter to Roberto Rossellini…..(tallulahbankhead.wordpress.com)
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Edmund Burke: True economy
“Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.” —Edmund Burke, statesman and writer (1729-1797).
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Nathaniel Hawthorne: Two-faced
“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.” —Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer (1804-1864).
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Michael Bublé: Not the best I can be
“I’m still not even close to being the guy I know I can be, but at least I’m aware of it.At least I work on it.” —Michael Bublé.
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Chrissie Wellington: Discomfort
It’s when the discomfort strikes that they realize a strong mind is the most powerful weapon of all. Chrissie Wellington, four-time World Ironman Champion Related articles Chrissie Smiles (fitnessfatale.com)
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Thomas Paine: Error, not truth
“It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.” —Thomas Paine, philosopher and writer (1737-1809).
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Sigmund Freud: Indisputable favourite
“A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror. ” —Sigmund Freud
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Emile M Cioran: Tolerance
“Tolerance — the function of an extinguished ardor — tolerance cannot seduce the young. ” —Emile M Cioran
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Robert Frost: Men and boys
“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. ” —Robert Frost.
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Ernest Hemingway: The best people
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.” —Ernest Hemingway, author and journalist, Nobel laureate (1899-1961).
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Jessamyn West: Facial truth
“Nothing ruins a face so fast as double-dealing. Your face telling one story to the world. Your heart yanking your face to pieces, trying to let the truth be known.” —Jessamyn West, novelist (1902-1984).
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Marilyn Monroe: My worst, my best
“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.” –Marilyn Monroe Related articles Marilyn quote: deserve me(thezoepages.com) 15 quotes by Marilyn Monroe(cath-b.com)…
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Robert Wilensky: Monkeying around…
“”We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.”” —Robert Wilensky.
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Russian proverb: When money speaks…
When money speaks, the truth keeps silent. –Russian proverb Related articles daily encouragement(nishitab.wordpress.com) Proverbs From Around the World – N to Z(ptbertram.wordpress.com)
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld: Nothing new
“Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new. ” —Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Eddie Cantor: Truth or tact
“Truth or tact You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible.” Eddie Cantor
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Robert A. Heinlein: Love
‘”Love” is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.’ —Robert A. Heinlein
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G K Chesterton: Virtue
“Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.” —G K Chesterton
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Napoleon Bonaparte: Stop thinking and go in
“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.” —Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Alex King: Time
Experience has shown that our best customers are ones who have as much respect for our time as we have for theirs. -Alex King
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Lois McMaster Bujold: Actions, consequences and desired results
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it. –Lois McMaster Bujold, writer (b. 1949) Related articles…
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Giordano Bruno: When the end comes
“When the end comes, you will be esteemed by the world and rewarded by God, not because you have won the love and respect of the princes of the earth, however powerful, but rather for having loved, defended and cherished one such as I … what you receive from others is a testimony to their…
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Khandi Alexander: Comedy
“I like comedy, I love it very much, I love laughing. ” —Khandi Alexander Related articles Khandi Alexander on the End of ‘Treme’ and Rebuilding LaDonna(netflowers.wordpress.com)
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Leonard Bernstein: Not enough time
“To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time. ” —Leonard Bernstein Related articles About Leonard Bernstein(wqxr.org) Top Five Beethoven Quotes & Samples in Popular Music(wqxr.org)
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Soren Kierkegaard: Prayer
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. ” —Soren Kierkegaard
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Herman Melville: Fail in originality
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ” —Herman Melville.
