Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Harvey Fierstein: Define yourself
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself. ” —Harvey Fierstein
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G C Lichtenberg: Dangerous untruths
“The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.” —G C Lichtenberg.
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Lewis Carroll: Wings
“The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things. Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings. Of why the ocean is burning hot, and whether pigs have wings.” —Lewis Carroll.
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David Ogilvy : Imitation
Imitation may be the “sincerest form of plagiarism,” but it is also the mark of an inferior person. – David Ogilvy Related articles David Ogilvy: I am a lousy copywriter (kutenda.com) A 1955 Letter from David Ogilvy (johndrake.typepad.com) Ogilvy’s Advertising Lessons (alignment.wordpress.com)
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Dennis & Wendy Mannering: Attitudes
Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? —Dennis and Wendy Mannering
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James Rouse: Profit
“Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it’s profitable. ” —James Rouse
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: Finding yourself
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” —Mohandas Gandhi.
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T S Eliot: Talking of Michelangelo
“In the room people come and go, talking of Michelangelo.” —T S Eliot.
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Gombrowicz: Condescend
Stop being afraid of your own pictures, stop worshiping art, treat it the Polish way, condescendingly, make it obedient, and then your originality will release itself in you, new roads will open in front of you and you will gain what is most valuable, most fertile: your own reality. – Gombrowicz
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Paul Kantner: Planning for the future
“You can’t plan for the future, because some guy’s going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything. ” —Paul Kantner
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Alexis Carrel: Intuition
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know. —Alexis Carrel Related articles The power of silence (csmonitor.com) Day 15: The gift of intuition (incelebrationofyou.wordpress.com) Slow Down, You Think Too Fast (ritholtz.com)
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Carolyn Wood: Bad clients
Turning away bad clients can leave you feeling oddly guilty. They’re sort of like alcoholic or meth head cousins who force you, by their own bad behavior into denying them things you wouldn’t deny other people. You’re left feeling not quite yourself. – Carolyn Wood.
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Kristin Armstrong: Victories of all sizes
“Once our eyes are opened to victories of all sizes, we can see them more easily in ourselves and in everyone else. There is no better feeling than to acknowledge someone else’s milestones, especially the little ones that they haven’t thought to celebrate. Remind them.” —Kristin Armstrong, MILEstones, Mile Markers, Runner’s World.com.
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Martin Luther King Jr : Respect for the law
“An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.” –Martin Luther King Jr.
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Joseph Joubert: Cutting and untying
Never cut what you can untie. –Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824). Related articles The Great Untying (womeninfluencingnow.wordpress.com) Should I untie my tongue? (ask.metafilter.com) Quotes About Kindness ~ by Gabby (autumnsunshineandgabrielleangel.wordpress.com)
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Napoleon Bonaparte : Courage and love
“Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. ” —Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Dalai Lama: Love and compassion
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.” –Dalai Lama Related articles Dalai Lama (filipinofestival.wordpress.com) Dalai Lama: We Must Learn More About Each Other (skyscraperyoga.wordpress.com) Quotes About Compassion ~ by Gabby Angel (autumnsunshineandgabrielleangel.wordpress.com) “Instructions for Life by the Dalai Lama” Bandwagon Post (foodlovelifeexperiment.wordpress.com)
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Thomas Szasz: Define or be defined
“In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined. ” —Thomas Szasz. Embed from Getty Images
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Jonathan Swift: Against a child
“Don’t set your wit against a child. ” —Jonathan Swift. Embed from Getty Images
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Samuel Butler: Good company
“People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy. ” —Samuel Butler.
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Joseph Butler: Man's dual capacities
“Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others. ” —Joseph Butler.
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Robert Fripp: Music
“Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.” —Robert Fripp. Embed from Getty Images
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Bertolt Brecht: Demand function
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand. ~ Bertolt Brecht ~
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John Stuart Mill: Virtual incarceration
“Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread. ” —John Stuart Mill.
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Francoise Sagan: Writing
“I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.” —Francoise Sagan, playwright and novelist (1935-2004).
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Kristin Armstrong: Comfort in discomfort
“As runners we are pretty adept at changing our pace, alternating our route, and overcoming obstacles. We train ourselves, literally, to find some sort of comfort in the midst of our discomfort. Our training serves us well in every area of our lives.” —Kristin Armstrong, Welcome, Mile Markers blog, Runner’s World.com.
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Dating
“Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn’t embarrassed that he or she asked. ” —Marilyn vos Savant
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Worth a thousand
A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures. – Ben Shneiderman
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Ray Kurzwell: Exponentially speaking
“As order exponentially increases, time exponentially speeds up. ” Ray Kurzwell.
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Timothy Leary: Justice
“A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.” —Timothy Leary
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Dinah Mulock Craik: What to believe and what not to
“Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.” Dinah Mulock Craik
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James Callaghan: Decisions
“Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions. ” James Callaghan
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Carla O’Dell: Information
If you don’t give people information, they will find something to fill up the gap. —Carla O’Dell
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Dmitry Fadeyev: Good design
Good design at the front-end suggests that everything is in order at the back-end, whether or not that is the case. – Dmitry Fadeyev
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John Maxwell: Impossible is nothing
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary.…
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Nils Fredrick Nielsen: Perfect match
They were the perfect match.He was kind and she was cruel. —-Nils Fredrick Nielsen
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Albert Camus: Actions and consequences
You have the freedom to choose your actions, but you don’t have the freedom to choose the consequences of your actions. -Albert Camus
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Oscar Wilde: Young enough
“I am not young enough to know everything.” —Oscar Wilde. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/537195327
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Kesley Ruger: What to create?
In business we do a great job learning and teaching the tools for optimizing our results (how to build), but not a lot of time exploring the tools that will help us understand the experience we should be creating (what we should build). – Kelsey Ruger
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Don McLean: The day the nusic died
I went down to the sacred store Where I’d heard the music years before But the man there said the music wouldn’t play And in the streets the children screamed The lovers cried and the poets dreamed But not a word was spoken The church bells all were broken And the three men I admire…
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Gidsy.com: Descriptions
Descriptions are like skirts, they should be long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to keep things interesting. – Gidsy.com
