Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Wise thoughts
“All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Edward De Bono: Bar to new ideas
“The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. ” —Edward De Bono.
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Steven Brust: Literature
“All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what’s cool. ” —Steven Brust
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Niccolo Machiavelli: Gift of penetration
“Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.” —Niccolo Machiavelli
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Christopher Columbus: Where's the shore?
You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. Christopher Columbus Related articles Christopher Columbus – Fact or Fiction(parentingwithallthepieces.typepad.com) The travels of the dead Christopher Columbus(repeatingislands.com) The Story of Christopher Columbus(badlandsbadley.wordpress.com) Christopher Columbus Had a Secret(maxiscomments.com) Confronting Christopher Columbus(blogher.com) Christopher Columbus: The Man, The Myth,…
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Richard Dawkins: Completely right or completely wrong
When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong. –Richard Dawkins, biologist and author (b. 1941) Related articles Richard Dawkins Explores the Meaning of Life as an Atheist(patheos.com) Richard Dawkins’s Blind…
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Angry minute
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Christopher McDougall: Born to run
“The reason we race isn’t so much to beat each other but to be with each other.” —Christopher McDougall, “Born to Run”.
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Thucydides: Men
“Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them. ” —Thucydides.
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Percy B. Shelley: Love repulsed
“Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love replused – but it returneth.” —Percy B Shelley.
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Warren Farrell: Men and women
“When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment. ” —Warren Farrell.
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Truman Capote: Writing
“Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down. ” —Truman Capote.
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Mary Kay Ash: Honesty
“Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. ”—Mary Kay Ash.
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Whoopi Goldberg: Normality
“Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine. ” —Whoopi Goldberg
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Amos Bronson Alcott: Observation and experience
“Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators. ” —Amos Bronson Alcott.
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Adam Smith:Virtue
“Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. ” —Adam Smith Related articles Adam Smith: “wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue”(lifeondoverbeach.wordpress.com)
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Milan Kundera:Vertigo
“Anyone whose goal is ‘something higher’ must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo Fear of falling No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.” — Milan…
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Lord Byron: Dreams
“And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.” — Lord Byron Related articles Discovered: Lord Byron’s Copy of Frankenstein Signed by Mary Shelley(openculture.com)…
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Wendell Johnson: Always and never
“Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. ” —Wendell Johnson.
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Theodore Hesburgh: Leadership
“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet. ” —Theodore Hesburgh Related articles Quotes about Leadership(lugenfamilyoffice.com) Visionary Leadership(waltbrite.wordpress.com) 20 Great Leadership Quotes(jamalwhyte.wordpress.com)
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: Good story
“What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon Related articles The Real Dead Poets Society: How America Buries Its Famous Writers(theatlantic.com) F. Scott Fitzgerald: 10 quotes on his birthday(csmonitor.com) A Letter And A Thought(urbangallivant.wordpress.com) F. Scott’s Fitzgerald’s hate mail response still echoes today(holykaw.alltop.com)
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Ernest Dimnet:Judgment
“Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it. ” —Ernest Dimnet
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Kate Bush: Quotes
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John Gay:Dependence
“There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one’s self. ” —John Gay
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Andre Maurois: Acts, habits and destiny
“If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny. ” —Andre Maurois
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Albert Schweitzer: You don't live in a world all your own
“It is not enough merely to exist. It’s not enough to say, ‘I’m earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I’m a good father, husband, churchgoer.’ That’s all very well. But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own…
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Bill Bowerman (Nike): Running
“The real purpose of running isn’t to win a race; it’s to test the limits of the human heart.” —Bill Bowerman, Co-founder of Nike, Inc..
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Minna Antrim: Women's intuition
“Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift. ” —Minna Antrim Related articles The Female Intuition(walkingdeadgirl.wordpress.com) Why Women Have A Sixth Sense(heartiste.wordpress.com) The Female Intuition(ivorymodels.wordpress.com)
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Richard Lenz: Personal business
Those who say “it’s not personal, it’s just business” are lying. All business is personal, and the best business is very personal. – Richard Lenz Related articles You are not Richard Branson(blogs.constantcontact.com) Learn How To Delegate Right To Have A Thriving Business(theprintblog.com)
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Michael Korda: Greater goals
“One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. ” —Michael Korda Related articles Doping, Tennis, Nadal: A Connection?(tennisnow.com)
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Jane Smiley: Being married is…
You know what getting married is? It’s agreeing to taking this person who right now is at the top of his form, full of hopes and ideas, feeling good, looking good, wildly interested in you because you’re the same way, and sticking by him while he slowly disintegrates. And he does the same for you.…
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John Quincy Adams: Principled voting
“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. ” John Quincy Adams
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Billy Sunday: Being Christian
“Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. ” —Billy Sunday Related articles Is Christian Growth Important?(paulstohler.com) American Christians Dare to Speak Their Conscience on Israel/Palestine(rabbibrant.com) Op-Ed: Christians’ letter was reasonable, worded sensitively(jta.org)
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Dorothy L. Sayers: Telling the truth
“The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. ” –—Dorothy L. Sayers.
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Horace: Rustic
“He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.” —Horace Related articles Rustic Love {part two}(paperandlace.co.nz)
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Doug Firebaugh: Daily
“Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.” —Doug Firebaugh, author.
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Mikhail Botvinnik: Creativity and money
“You know that creativity and money accompany each other. The question is which is more important: money in order to play chess or chess in order to earn money.” —Mikhail Botvinnik.
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Werner Makowski: The worst kind
The worst kind of people are those who confuse kindness for weakness. -Werner Makowski, banker (b. 1929)
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Donald Kutyna: Six o'clock
“In the Air Force, we have a rule: check six. A guy is flying along, looking in all directions, and feeling very safe. Another guy flies up behind him (at “6 o’clock”-“12 o’clock” is directly in front) and shoots. Most airplanes are shot down that way. Thinking that you’re safe is very dangerous! Somewhere, there’s…
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Amy Tan: External success
External success has to do with people who may see me as a model, or an example, or a representative. As much as I may dislike or want to reject that responsibility, this is something that comes with public success. It’s important to give others a sense of hope that it is possible and you…
