Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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)
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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)
