Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Mahatma Gandhi: Customers
A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption of our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider to our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favour…
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William Faulkner: Experience, observation and imagination
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others. -William Faulkner, novelist (1897-1962)
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Bertrand Russell: None but a coward
“None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. ” —Bertrand Russell
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Charles Bukowski: You’ve still got a soul left to lose
“If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose. ” —Charles Bukowski
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Charles Caleb Cotton: Reputation
“There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter. ” —Charles Caleb Cotton
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Paul Attwood: Decisions on artwork by committee
“Decisions on artwork by committee end up being made on the premise of not turning people off rather than turning people on.” – Paul Attwood
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Forgotten truth
And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author and aviator (1900-1945)
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Christina G Rosetti: Forget and smile
“Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad. ” —Christina G. Rossetti.
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Oscar Wilde: Friends
“I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.” —Oscar Wilde. Embed from Getty Images
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Carl Schurtz: Ideals
“Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.” -Carl Schurtz.
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Jeffrey Zeldman: Best work
Whether the task is writing, design, or hanging a picture straight, it is obvious that we do our best work when healthy, rested, refreshed, alert, and eager to do the job for its own sake. – Jeffrey Zeldman
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George A Smith: More recklessly
“Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs and uncertainties of life. ” —George A. Smith.
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Fred Rohe: Running rewards
There are no standards and no possible victories except the joy you are living while dancing your run. You are not running for some future reward-the real reward is now! Fred Rohe, author of The Zen of Running
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Henry Miller: Sin, guilt, neurosis
“Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. ” —Henry Miller
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Edna O’Brien: In hotels of the soul
“Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul. “ —Edna O’Brien.
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Desiree Davila: Running
Running is just you, the work you put in, and the clock. You can’t cheat yourself. If you don’t put in the miles, you can’t go to the starting line thinking you’re going to pull a miracle out of nowhere. You get out exactly as much as you put in. Desiree Davila
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Calvin Coolidge: Bewilderment
“When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous. ” —Calvin Coolidge
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Sylvester Stallone: Success
“Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure. ” —Sylvester Stallone.
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Anatole Broyard: Interminable debate with one’s self
“The tension between ‘yes’ and ‘no,’ between ‘I can’ and ‘I cannot,’ makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one’s self.” —Anatole Broyard.
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Harry S Truman: Hell
“I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it’s hell.” Harry S Truman
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Chet Atkins: Halfway like the public
“If you hear something you like, and you’re halfway like the public, chances are they’ll like it too.” —Chet Atkins
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Alexander Hamilton: Tyranny and deformity
“It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny, their figure deformity.” —Alexander Hamilton.
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James Joyce: Writing
“No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination. ” —James Joyce.
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Jonathan Swift: Mistakes
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday. —Jonathan Swift. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/89865058
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Pearl Buck: Do right despite what you feel
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings. —Pearl Buck.
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Josh Billings: Knowledge
“Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves. ” —Josh Billings.
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Keith Urban: Groove
“Once we get into the groove, we’re kind of like long-distance runners – that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running – and I don’t stop! ” —Keith Urban
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Benjamin Franklin : Borrowed
“He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed. ” —Benjamin Franklin.
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Richard P Feynman: First principle
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool. ” —Richard P. Feynman Related articles ‘The Character of Physical Law’: Richard Feynman’s Legendary Lecture Series at Cornell, 1964 (openculture.com) Richard Feynman said… (quotarium.wordpress.com)
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Robert Hall: Conscience and Prudence
“In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best. ” Robert Hall http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/185148571
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Jef Raskin: Users
However, I’ve always been more concerned with users. Programmers do their work but once, while users are saddled with it ever thereafter. – Jef Raskin Related articles How Steve Jobs changed computing (telegraph.co.uk)
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J Paul Getty: Hundred men seeking security
“There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune. ” —J. Paul Getty.
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Scott Douglas: Finding time
“We find time for the things that are important to us. Period.” —Scott Douglas, Scott’s Original Miscellany, Running Times – March 2011. Embed from Getty Images
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Rocco Buttiglione: Sin
“Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin. ” —Rocco Buttiglione
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Raymond Chandler: Learning about writing
“Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say. ” —Raymond Chandler. Embed from Getty Images
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George Orwell: Rough men
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. ” —George Orwell
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Linus Fernandes: Half-truths
“Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.” —Linus Fernandes.
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George Bernard Shaw: Great truths
“All great truths begin as blasphemies.” -George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950).
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Thomas Aquinas: Love and hatred
“Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love. ” —Thomas Aquinas. Embed from Getty Images
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Denis Diderot: Light at night
“Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ The stranger is a theologian.” —Denis Diderot, philosopher (1713-1784).
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Aristotle: Moral excellence
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. —Aristotle.
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Thomas R Dewar: Pedestrians
“There are two kinds of pedestrians… the quick and the dead. ” —Thomas R. Dewar.
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Christine Luff: Imagine yourself as an Olympic athlete
“When you hit a rough patch, try to imagine yourself as an Olympic athlete who’s headed towards the finish line. Envision your running form as smooth, graceful, and relaxed. Think of a runner who you really admire and imagine yourself running just like him.” —Christine Luff, Mental Tips for Long Runs, About.com Guide.
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Lewis Munford: Traditionalists
“Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. ” —Lewis Mumford
