Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Henry Bolingbroke: Pride
“Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt. ”—Henry Bolingbroke.
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100 million miles an hour
“I’ve never had a huge circle of friends. I can’t spread myself that thin and go 100 million miles an hour all the time. I choose to give truly of myself, entirely of myself, to the people I choose to do that with, and I can’t do that with everyone. ” —Jeremy Northam
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Louis Kesler: Work
“Always remember, you can never finish work, but work can finish you.” —Louis Keisler.
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Boldness
Bold is not the act of foolishness but the attribute and inner strength to act when others will not so as to move forward not backward. —Byron Pulsifer
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Nina Kuscik: Running
“Running gives freedom. When you run you can determine your own tempo. You can choose your own course and think whatever you want. Nobody tells you what to do.” —Nina Kuscik, marathoner.
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Michel de Montaigne: 'cos it was me, 'im meself
“If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself. ” —Michel de Montaigne.
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Henry Ward Beecher: Forgiveness and forgetfulness
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.” -Henry Ward Beecher. Embed from Getty Images
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Failures and successes
It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success. —Havelock Ellis
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Better mousetrap
“Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Oscar Wilde: Genius and talent
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. —Oscar Wilde.
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Khalil Gibran: Hate
“Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be a tomb?” —Kahlil Gibran, poet and artist (1883-1931).
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Franklin D Roosevelt: Try something
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. —Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: Freedom
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.” —Mohandas Gandhi.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca: Dangerous, mad, degrading
“To strive with an equal is dangerous, with a superior, mad, with an inferior, degrading.” —Lucius Annaeus Seneca.
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The Future
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. —Eleanor Roosevelt
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Martin Luther King Jr: Love Our Enemies
“Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.” —Martin Luther King Jr.
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Margot Fonteyn: Take your work seriously
“Take your work seriously, but never yourself. ” —Margot Fonteyn.
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Making a whole Christian
“The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian. ” Aiden Wilson Tozer Related articles Tozer Devotional-Censoring Our Desires In the Will of…
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Experience Design
Most [clients] expect experience design to be a discrete activity, solving all their problems with a single functional specification or a single research study. It must be an ongoing effort, a process of continually learning about users, responding to their behaviors, and evolving the product or service. – Dan Brown
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Peggy Noonan: Beware the politically obsessed
“Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen. ” —Peggy Noonan
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Forgiveness
“Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual. ” Jennifer O’Neill
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Tom Lehrer: Life
“Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.” —Tom Lehrer. Related articles Tom Lehrer The Masochism Tango (pinkbananaworld.com) Tom Lehrer “The Masochism Tango” (lezgetreal.com) Occupy God! (czardonic.wordpress.com)
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George Orwell: Universal deceit
“In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act. ” George Orwell. Related articles Animal Farm (yousef59.wordpress.com) In a world of Universal Deceit-telling the Truth is a Revolutionary Act – Mark Bonner (allenwestrepublic.wordpress.com) Web of Deceit: Misinformation and Manipulation in the Age of Social Media (prweb.com) The Life Of George…
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William Ward: Discover the best in others
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves. —William Ward.
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Benjamin Disraeli: Action
“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” —Benjamin Disraeli.
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Next…
“Well, I don’t look back and celebrate. I just always worry about the next one. ” —Jerry Bruckheimer Related articles Is Jerry Bruckheimer’s Billion-Dollar Touch Gone? (cinematical.com)
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G. K. Chesterton: Action
“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act.” —G. K. Chesterton Related articles Reading G. K. Chesterton (writingsistersblog.wordpress.com) “Orthodoxy” by G.K. Chesterton (traditionalchristianity.wordpress.com) Hitchens, Chesterton, and “The Fall into Mysticism” (thecatholicthing.org) Afternoon Bites: Hitchens…
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Charles A Jaffe: Investors face risk
“Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do. ” —Charles A. Jaffe.
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William Shakespeare: Faces
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. —William Shakespeare Related articles William Shakespeare: 18th century drainpipe stolen in Stratford (dailymail.co.uk) The Lost Secret of William Shakespeare (seeker401.wordpress.com) Theater: William Shakespeare’s ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ (literarychronicles.wordpress.com)
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Oscar Wilde: Ideas
“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. ” —Oscar Wilde Related articles Oscar Wilde Quote (bipolarmuse.com)
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William Shakespeare: To Thine Own Self Be True
” This above all to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.” —Shakespeare: Hamlet I.iii.
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Neil Tennant: Ghettoes
“I think there’s an element where people get very comfortable in their ghetto. Which is fair enough. ” —Neil Tennant.
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Maya Angelou: Singing along
“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” -Maya Angelou. Embed from Getty Images
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Thomas Mann: On writing
“A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” —Thomas Mann.
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God and goodness
To suppose that God Almighty has confined his goodness to this world, to the exclusion of all others, is much similar to the idle fancies of some individuals in this world, that they, and those of their communion or faith, are the favorites of heaven exclusively; but these are narrow and bigoted conceptions, which are…
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William Ralph Inge: Christianity
“No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism. ” —William Ralph Inge.
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Lou Holtz: Something worthwhile
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity. – Lou Holtz Related articles Who is Lou Holtz? (govigseniorcare.wordpress.com)
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Bertrand Russell: Hang a question mark
In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. – Bertrand Russell. Related articles The Value of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell (belladeluna.wordpress.com) On Intuitive Knowledge by Bertrand Russell (belladeluna.wordpress.com) A Few Minutes with Bertrand Russell (laf.ee) Three Passions of Bertrand…
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Tina Ingegneri: Running
“I just go out there and feel like, ‘This is hard, but this is great.’ I just feel so incredibly alive. And I feel healthy and inspired when I run a race, even if it’s not my best day.” —Tina Ingegneri, Runner’s World Challenger of the Week.
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Quintilian: Write, to not be misunderstood
We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us. -Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus), rhetorician (c. 35-100)
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Practise
“For 37 years I’ve practiced 14 hours a day, and now they call me a genius. ” —Pablo de Sarasate
