Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Kahlil Gibran: Mayhap
‘When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, “Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison.” And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, “Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful.”‘ —Kahlil Gibran, poet and artist (1883-1931).
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Wendell Wilkie: Liberty
“Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love. ” —Wendell L Wilkie.
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Ronald Reagan: Church and state
“We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must remain separate.” —Ronald Reagan, 40th US President.
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Demosthenes: Censure
“The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves. ” —Demosthenes
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Following the Leader? Stop, Notice How It Makes You Feel
There is much we can learn from following. We all find ourselves in positions to follow both great and horrible leaders from time to time. It helps to stop and really pay attention to how we feel during the process. Pay Attention to Emotions As leaders, we lead and follow with much intensity. Because…
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Maya Angelou: History
“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. ” —Maya Angelou. Related articles Maya Angelou – But Still I Rise! (poshabilities.wordpress.com) Still I rise by Maya Angelou (isysdrain.wordpress.com) The Story of Human Rights (cynicmeetshope.wordpress.com)
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Heraclitus: Man,being himself—seriously!
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. –Heraclitus, philosopher (500 BCE)
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Thomas Carlyle: Judgment
“Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death. ” –—Thomas Carlyle Related articles Quotes…
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James Madison: You cannot be both judge and party
“No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time.” —James Madison
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Henry David Thoreau: Justice and injustice
“Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant. ” —Henry David Thoreau
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Toba Beta: Common sense
“There are places on planet earth, where common sense doesn’t apply.” ― Toba Beta, BetelgeuseIncident
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Phyllis Theroux: Letter writing
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart. —Phyllis Theroux
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Alden Nowlan: Adolescence, adulthood and wisdom
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. –Alden Nowlan, poet, novelist, and playwright (1933-1983)
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Morality
“Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies. ” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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William Hazlitt: "The rule for travelling…
“The rule for travelling abroad is to take your common sense with you, and leave your prejudices behind.” —William Hazlitt
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Bruce Lee: Limits
“If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it, will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” —Bruce Lee.
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Henry Ford: Learning
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”—Henry Ford.
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George Bernard Shaw: Respectability
“The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.” —George Bernard Shaw.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero: Informative portraits
“The countenance is the portrait of the mind, the eyes are its informers. ” – —Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Franklin D Roosevelt: Confidence
“Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live. ” —Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Nathaniel Hawthorne: Words
“Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.” —Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer (1804-1864).
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Henry David Thoreau: Blunderer
A man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of life getting his living. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862). Embed from Getty Images
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Is Texting the Death of Small Talk?
Woman texts her husband on a cold winter’s morning:“Windows frozen.” Husband texts her back:“Pour some lukewarm water over it.” Woman texts back:“Computer completely dead now.” Maybe you haven’t ever misconstrued a text (or “miscontexted”) that badly, but the above joke highlights one of the challenges of texting: a greater likelihood of misinterpretation. Don’t get me wrong.…
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Don Marquis: Animal kingdom
“Human wandering through the zoo / what do your cousins think of you.” –Don Marquis, humorist and poet (1878-1937). Embed from Getty Images Related articles Evil (blessinvarkey.wordpress.com) Quotes fo’ da day (igatherum.wordpress.com)
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John Wolfgang von Goethe: Talent and character
“Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (1749-1832).
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Plato: Cunning, rather than wisdom
“Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. ” —Plato.
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John Bingham: I AM A RUNNER
“I AM A RUNNER because I run. Not because I run fast. Not because I run far. I AM A RUNNER because I say I am. And no one can tell me I’m not.” —John Bingham, author and runner.
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Henri L. Bergson: Thought and action
“Think like a man of action; act like a man of thought.” —Henri L. Bergson.
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Mary Renault: Friendship
“It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death. ” —Mary Renault.
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Paula Scher: Nothing is timeless
‘You never can do what the kids do. What you do is look at yourself and find your own way to address the fact that the times have changed and that you have to pay attention. You can’t be a designer and say, “Oh, this is timeless.” Nothing is timeless!’ —Paula Scher.
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Kristin Armstrong: I will
“I’m glad to be here right now, poking at my threshold. I want to get more comfortable being uncomfortable. I want to get more confident being uncertain. I don’t want to shrink back just because something isn’t easy. I want to push back, and make more room in the area between I can’t and I…
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Persecution and not…
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882).
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Elie Wiesel: Shadows
Most people think that shadows follow, precede, or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. –Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1928)
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Lao-Tsu: The Tao of the Software Architect
This is a very liberal reading of Lao-Tsu’s Tao Te Ching for the use of software architects, based on various French and English translations. The numbers refer to the original tablets, shown at right. The architect observes the world but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. His heart is open…
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Henri Bergson: Change
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”—Henri Bergson.
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Eleanor Roosevelt: Work
“My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. ” –—Eleanor Roosevelt Related articles Eleanor Roosevelt’s hands (timpanogos.wordpress.com)
