Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Kristin Armstrong: Dreams and goals
“If we write our dreams and goals down, we dramatically increase our odds of realization. If we share them with others, they become potent and alive.” —Kristin Armstrong, Full Cup, Mile Markers blog, Runner’s World.com.
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On Writing
“I think I relate to all the characters in one way or another. I’m a chameleon like that. ” Amber Tamblyn
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Tom Brokaw: Ticket
“You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world. ” —Tom Brokaw.
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Bruce Lee: Influential teacher
“A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.” —Bruce Lee. Related articles I Am Bruce Lee review (bizzam.wordpress.com) Currently Reading: Bruce Lee – The Art of Expressing the Human Body (brokebutrichatart.com) I AM BRUCE LEE Makes TV Debut on Spike TV (comicbooked.com) Who Is the Teacher and Who Is the Student? (theconfluencecountdown.com) Bruce…
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Oscar Wilde: Masking the truth
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” —Oscar Wilde.
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Michelle Obama: America
“America is just downright mean. ” —Michelle Obama. Related articles Obama Says Court Overturning Health-Care Law Would Be ‘Activism’ – San Francisco Chronicle (sfgate.com) Michelle Obama On Why African-Americans Have To Work Harder To Be Healthy [EXCLUSIVE] (therussparrmorningshow.com) First lady Michelle Obama covers the May issue of Ebony magazine (thegrio.com) First Lady Michelle Obama writes…
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Tyron Edwards: Happiness
“Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door.” —Tyron Edwards Related articles…
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Chinese proverb: Injuries and kindnesses
“Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.” —Chinese Proverb.
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Leadership Quotes
“Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.” —Leadership Guru Warren Bennis. “In leadership, there are no words more important than trust. In any organization, trust must be developed among every member of the team if success is going to be achieved.” —Duke Basketball Head Coach Mike Krzyzewski. “If I can’t…
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Sam Keen: Questions
“What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask. ” —Sam Keen.
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Alphonse Karr: Uncertainty
“Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty. ” —Alphonse Karr. Related articles ANXIETY = UNCERTAINTY x POWERLESSNESS (damniwish.com) uncertainties (pkshouse.wordpress.com) Which Are Your Strategies For Dealing With Uncertainty In Business? [Lucas Wyrsch] (ecademy.com) Liquidity and the Game of Money – Uncertainty & Unease ? Understood. (tradehaven.me)…
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Fear
“You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind. ” Dale Carnegie
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Ogden Nash: Dental torture
Some tortures are physical / And some are mental, / But the one that is both / Is dental. –Ogden Nash, poet (1902-1971) Embed from Getty Images
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Oliver Wendell Holmes: Pursuit
“Every pursuit is great when greatly pursued.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Ogden Nash: Of llamas
“The one-l lama, He’s a priest. The two-l llama, He’s a beast. And I will bet A silk pajama There isn’t any Three-l lllama.” —Ogden Nash http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/1649582
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Judith Light: Ready
“People can only do what they are ready to do when they are ready to do it. ” —Judith Light.
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The world was not enough
“A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient. ” —Alexander The Great Related articles AlexanderTheGreat-ia (bizgovsociii.wordpress.com) Alexander the Great: 2000 Years of Treasures (sandratblog.com) About Alexander,the Great’s final wishes (truerivers.wordpress.com)
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Ralph Marston: Reality
“Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. ” —Ralph Marston. Related articles Really Want It by Ralph Marston (angelabee.wordpress.com)
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Pat Nixon: Sacrifice
“I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious in order to advance the political career of my husband. “ —Pat Nixon.
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Robert Anton Wilson: Certitude
“Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia. ” —Robert Anton Wilson
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Sting: Love
“I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them. ” —Sting. Related articles Sting Isn’t an Icon in Pro Wrestling; Needs WWE to Be Considered (bleacherreport.com)
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Ambrose Pierce: Patience
“Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. ” —Ambrose Pierce.
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Julie Burchill: Pretty face, merely a visa
It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it’s not, it’s a visa, and it runs out fast. –Julie Burchill, writer and journalist (b. 1959). Embed from Getty Images Related articles Visa drama. (jessicabethtravels.wordpress.com) New UK visa rules for travellers from Libya, Egypt and Syria (teddyoshea.wordpress.com) Relaxed visa regime steps away…
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Samuel Butler: Prayers
“Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.” —Samuel Butler, poet (1612-1680).
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Bertrand Russell: The Human Race
“I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied ‘The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies that’s fair.’ In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.” —Bertrand Russell. Related articles Bertrand Russell On God (wcward57.wordpress.com) Quotastically speaking (theblueoyster.wordpress.com) Bertrand,…
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Michel de Montaigne: Custom, not law
“The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom. ” —Michel De Montaigne.
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Talent—irrelevant
I see the notion of talent as quite irrelevant. I see instead perseverance, application, industry, assiduity, will, will, will, desire, desire, desire. —Gordon Lish
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James E Jones: Bonding
“You don’t build a bond without being present. ” —James E Jones. Embed from Getty Images
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Allergy to consciousness
“I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness. ” —James Thurber Related articles It’s not a cold, it’s just allergies! (mudpiebliss.wordpress.com) Tip of…
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Consent
“He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent. ” —St. Augustine Related articles Augustine on the binding of the devil (apologus.wordpress.com) A Prayer by St Augustine (gabrielshope.wordpress.com)
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Forgiveness
“When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others. ” Jennifer O’Neill
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Amby Burfoot: Winning
“Winning is not about headlines and hardware [medals]. It’s only about attitude. A winner is a person who goes out today and every day and attempts to be the best runner and best person he can be. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.” —Amby Burfoot, Editor-at-Large, Runner’s…
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Carl Jung: No recipe for living
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.” —Carl Jung. Related articles Carl Gustav Jung – The World Within (dphilosophy.wordpress.com) Carl Jung’s Five Key Elements to Happiness. (happiness-project.com) Carl Jung’s Five Key Elements to Happiness (psychcentral.com)
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Poppycock
“I’m not going to let anybody come down at night like Nicodemus and whisper something in my ear that no one else can hear. That is not executive privilege it is poppycock.” —Sam James Ervin Jr. Related articles It’s Political Poppycock (andrawatkins.com) Poppycock and Pinwheels (traumatotreasure.wordpress.com)
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Music
“Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it’s hard to be angry when you are listening to music. ” Jerry Reed
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Brian K. Blackden: Justice and privacy
“Justice: To seek it, one must be willing to give up the right to privacy, as nothing more private will become more public.” —Brian K. Blackden.
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George Orwell: Objectification
“The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.” —George Orwell.
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CS Lewis: Road to perdition
“The safest road to hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. ”—C S Lewis Related articles Road to Perdition (personalscience.wordpress.com) A whiff of perdition… (botoblog.com) Washington’s Road to Financial Perdition! (genomega1.wordpress.com)
