Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Benjamin Disraeli: Write a book
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.—Benjamin Disraeli.
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Power
“Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex. ” —Katharine Graham
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W Somerset Maugham: Dignity
“It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. ” —W Somerset Maugham.
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Unknown: Discipline
“Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want most.” —Unknown.
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Michel De Montaigne: Search…
“I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. ” —Michel De Montaigne.
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Writing
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. —Jules Renard
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Education
Education is about the only thing lying around loose in the world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away.” —George Lorimer
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Chester W. Nimitz: Paint and powder
“A ship is always referred to as ‘she’ because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder. ” —Chester W. Nimitz.
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George S Patton: Ingenuity
“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ” —George S Patton. Related articles WAS GENERAL PATTON MURDERED? ~ “…At the end of the war Patton was in fact the highest ranking officer in the US Military. In peacetime the Armed Forces would…
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Petrarch: Love life
“True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.” —Petrarch.
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Andrew Carnegie: Eggs in one basket
“Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.” —Andrew Carnegie. Related articles Enriching others with Andrew Carnegie [Garry Pickles] (ecademy.com)
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Thomas S Monson: Faith
“Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people. ” Thomas S Monson
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Jeff Jarvis: Blogging
“The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them.” —Jeff Jarvis.
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Windows versus mirrors
“I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you. ” —Bill Withers
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Lillian Hellman: Change
“People change and forget to tell each other.” —Lillian Hellman, playwright (1905-1984).
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Jose Bergamin: Just one thing
“Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter. ” —Jose Bergamin.
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Money
“They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money. ” —George Saville Related articles Money and Trust (psychologytoday.com)
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Simms: Proverbs answer
“The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air.” —Simms.
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Albert Einstein: Ideas
“Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.” —Albert Einstein. Related articles This is Cool! Albert Einstein’s Library Online (freetech4teachers.com) Albert Einstein Archive Now Online (learningwithtechs.wordpress.com) How Albert Einstein Saved A Former Lover From The Nazis (businessinsider.com) Albert Einstein archives go online (cbc.ca) Albert Einstein passionately fought race prejudice, according to new and old…
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Michel De Montaigne: He who fears
“He who fears will suffer, he already suffers from his fear. ” —Michel De Montaigne. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/173275264
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Karl Kraus: Being human
“When a man is treated like a beast, he says, ‘After all, I’m human.’ When he behaves like a beast, he says ‘After all, I’m only human.’ ” Karl Kraus Related articles “I’m only human” (dietproofyourlife.wordpress.com)
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Marion Jones: No reason
“You forget that sometimes people are out there to get you — they don’t even have a reason. ” —Marion Jones.
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Henry Kissinger: Peace
“If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.” —Henry Kissinger.
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Benjamin Franklin: Involve
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. ” —Benjamin Franklin.
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Scientific spirit
“Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty. ” —James D Watson
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Wheeler Wilcox: Borrowed mirth
“Laugh, and the world laughs with you; / Weep, and you weep alone. / For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth, / But has trouble enough of its own.” —Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet (1850-1919)
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Real Live Preacher: Forgetful love
“You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman’s name and claim to love her.” Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, October 20, 2003
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Ronald Reagan: Abortion
“I’ve noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born. ” —Ronald Reagan Related articles Bursting the ‘Ronald Reagan wouldn’t recognize today’s GOP’ media narrative bubble (twitchy.com) For the Gipper: Ronald Reagan may soon have a highway in N.J. (nj.com) RonaldReagan.com: Better than you’d think! (examiner.com)
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Edgar Allan Poe: Nasal mob
“The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. ” —Edgar Allan Poe Related articles The Odd Poe Out (themillions.com) Edgar Allan Poe: Vulgar and Insane (jfloodgroningen.wordpress.com)
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On running
We all know that if you run, you are pretty much choosing a life of success because of it. Deena Kastor
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Dag Hammarskjold: Firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer
“If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, — quieter, warmer.” —Dag Hammarskjold, Secretary General of the United Nations, Nobel laureate (1905-1961).
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Enrique Jardiel Poncela: On writing
“When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.” —Enrique Jardiel Poncela Related articles Great Writing Quotes – With Fabulous Commentary and Pics! (bethtrissel.wordpress.com) writing (patheticapathetic.wordpress.com) The right way to write; Paragraph 3 (bbroseproductions.wordpress.com) Writing is My Therapy (kateschannel.wordpress.com) A Quick Write is Better Than A No Write (never2late2write.com) Reconnecting…
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What is…
If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is.
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Zora Neale Hurston: Envious heart, treacherous ear
“An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.” Zora Neale Hurston, “Their Eyes Were Watching God“ Related articles ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’ still resonates (inamerica.blogs.cnn.com) All About Black Woman Writer Zora Neale Hurston (musicians4freedom.com) Zora Neale Hurston Branch Library set to reopen March 22 (tcpalm.com) Zara’s Book Giveaway #1 – Black History Month (Feb) (zaraalexis.wordpress.com)
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James Thurber: Rules and exceptions
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception. –James Thurber, writer and cartoonist (1894-1961) Related articles Are You the Exception or the Norm? (betterlifecoaching.wordpress.com) Today’s Birthday: James Thurber (1894) (euzicasa.wordpress.com) Happy Birthday James Thurber (waldina.com) Motivational Monday #6 Awareness (edenchanges.wordpress.com)
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Edward B Butler: Enthusiasm
“One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life. ” —Edward B Butler. Related articles The Value of Enthusiasm (flbl.wordpress.com) Enthusiasm Sells! (lifeworkelements.wordpress.com) Enthusiasm (akissofbliss.wordpress.com)
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William Makepeace Thackeray: The secret
“Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed. ” —William Makepeace Thackeray
