Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Coco Chanel: Being irreplaceable
“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. ” Coco Chanel
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Marcus Tullius Cicero: Being sorry
“No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone. ” —Marcus Tullius Cicero.
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Isaac Mizrahi: When you can and when you can't
“When someone says you can’t do what you know you can do, then you can’t do anything. ” —Isaac Mizrahi
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Balthasar Gracian: Wisdom
“Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you cannot.” —Balthasar Gracian.
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William Makepeace Thackeray: Excellence and its appreciation
“Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it. ” —William Makepeace Thackeray
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John Calvin: Hell of a living soul
“The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. ” —John Calvin
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Colin Powell: Surface appearances
“Keep looking below surface appearances. Don’t shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.” – Colin Powell
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Aphra Behn: Happy Lover's Hour
“Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life. ” —Aphra Behn.
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Bernard Iddings Bell: To love
“To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a…
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Doyle Brunson: Man on a mission
“A man with money is no match against a man on a mission. ” Doyle Brunson
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Dean Acheson: One day at a time
“The thing to remember is that that the future comes one day at a time.”—Dean Acheson, Communication Bulletin for Managers and Supervisors, June 2004.
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Anonymous: Liberty and freedom
“Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.” —Anonymous
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Shane Warne: Love the game!
“I just play because I love playing and I try and take as many wickets as I can. ” —Shane Warne
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W C Fields: Bull By The Tail
There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation. W. C. Fields
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African proverb: Enemies
“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.” —African proverb.
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Karl von Bonstetten: Exercise, study and love
“To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart – and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.” —Karl von Bonstetten
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Samuel Johnson: Belief and disbelief
“We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. ” —Samuel Johnson Related articles Belief and disbelief (teachingsofmasters.wordpress.com) Man’s pride and satisfaction (teachingsofmasters.wordpress.com) Clear your Mind! (hebslimdown.wordpress.com) Quote of the Day – Samuel Johnson on Anticipation (schnik.it) Life’s Too Short~ Believe to Receive! (tammyrowlandcoaching.com)
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Emily Dickinson: Heartbreak
“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. ” —Emily Dickinson.
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Vera Brittain: Separate concerns
“I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading. ” —Vera Brittain
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Joshua Blankenship: On the web
But the web will still be full of arrogant, uninformed, polarizing, self-promoting, controversy-creating content that has ramifications no one wants to own up to. And consequently, the web will still be lacking in common courtesy, humility, and the admittance that most of us don’t know best. Which is sad, mostly because it’s true. – Joshua…
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Sense of reason
“If some things don’t make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose. ” —Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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Corliss Lamont: Free will and the truth
“The intuition of free will gives us the truth.” —Corliss Lamont
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Ryan Hall: Suffering
Suffering is an extraordinary teacher. Ryan Hall, U.S. Olympic marathoner Related articles Is Olympic Marathoner Ryan Hall Really Coached by God? (cardboardmagazine.wordpress.com) Ryan Hall: Ryan’s Most Innovative Breakthrough Ever – Nissan Innovation for Endurance (the17thman.typepad.com) London 2012 Olympics: Marathon replacement Freya Murray gutted for Radcliffe (thesun.co.uk)
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Stephen Anderson: Evolution of design
At this point in experience design’s evolution, satisfaction out to be the norm, and delight out to be the goal. – Stephen Anderson
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Mahatma Gandhi: Strength
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. Mahatma Gandhi
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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 Kundera
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Benjamin Franklin: Knowledgeable investment
“An investment in knowledge still yields the best returns.” —Benjamin Franklin.
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Charles Templeton: Christianity
“Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully. ” —Charles Templeton
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Benjamin Franklin: What to leave unsaid…
“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. ” –—Benjamin Franklin.
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Harold Nicolson: Judging
“We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts. ” Harold Nicolson
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Colin Powell: Associate with eagles
“Never receive counsel from unproductive people. Never discuss your problems with someone incapable of contributing to the solution, because those who never succeed themselves are always first to tell you how. Not everyone has a right to speak into your life. You are certain to get the worst of the bargain when you exchange ideas…
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Lara Flynn: Humor
“Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don’t get it. ” —Lara Flynn
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Harry Chapin: Greedy, selfish bastard
“I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something. ” —Harry Chapin Related articles Greed, and Self-Interest (spiriterial.com) Greedy Bastard (sporkinthedrawer.typepad.com)
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Winston Churchill: Criticism
“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. ”—Winston Churchill
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Colin Powell: On Barrack Obama
“Well, the correct answer is he is not a Muslim, he’s a Christian. He’s always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country?” ― Colin Powell
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Charles Adams: Success
“No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.” —Charles Adams.
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Klaus Kinski: Terrible and beautiful
“People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either. ” Klaus Kinski
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Thomas C. Watson Sr.: Crackpot
“Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of “crackpot” than the stigma of conformity. ” —Thomas C. Watson Sr.
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Ursula Andress: Bits from a James Bond movie
“I mostly gave away what I had from the James Bond movie. ” —Ursula Andress.
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Friedrich Nietzsche: Laughter
“Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. ” —Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Joe Namath: Leadership
“To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn’t know where he is going. ” —Joe Namath
