Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Edward R Murrow: Naked truths
“Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.” —-Edward R. Murrow.
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David Abrams: Home run
“We believe in diversification for risk reducing, but we don’t want to diversify ourselves into ignorance. If we can do three smart things in a year and nothing dumb, we will be very successful. If we can do five, that’s a home run.” —David Abrams.
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C S Lewis: Life itself
“Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.” —C S Lewis.
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Robert Penn Warren: Historical geography
“History is all explained by geography.” —Robert Penn Warren.
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Sun Tzu: Command from the sovereign
“In war, the general receives his command from the sovereign.”—Sun Tzu.
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Michael T Fisher & Martin L Abbott: Seeding, feeding and weeding
‘People and organization management is broken into “seeding, feeding, and weeding.” Seeding is the hiring of people into an organization with the goal of getting better and better people. Most managers spend too little time on the interview process and don’t aim high enough. Cultural and behavioral interviewing should be included when looking to seed…
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C S Lewis: When human beings fight
“The permanent nature of matter in general means that when human beings fight, the victory ordinarily goes to those who have superior weapons, skill, and numbers, even if their cause is unjust.” —C S Lewis.
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Kurt Vonnegut: Make your soul grow
“Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.” —Kurt Vonnegut.
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C S Lewis: Freedom to choose
“Again, the freedom of a creature must mean freedom to choose: and choice implies the existence of things to choose between. A creature with no environment would have no choices to make: so that freedom, like self-consciousness (if they are not, indeed, the same thing) again demands the presence to the self of something other…
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Michael T Fisher & Martin L Abbott: Management and leadership
“If leadership is a promise, management is action. If leadership is a destination, management is the directions. If leadership is inspiration, management is motivation. If leadership is a painting, management is the brush. Leadership is the pulling activities and management the pushing activities. Both are necessary to be successful in maximizing shareholder wealth.” —Michael T…
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Sun Tzu: Military method
“In respect of the military method, we have, firstly, Measurement; secondly, Estimation of quantity; thirdly, Calculation; fourthly Balancing of chances; fifthly, Victory.” —Sun Tzu.
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C S Lewis: Self-consciousness
‘There is no reason to suppose that self-consciousness, the recognition of a creature by itself as a “self”, can exist except in contrast with an “other”, a something which is not the self. It is against an environment, and preferably a social environment, an environment of other selves, that the awareness of Myself stands out.’…
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Immanuel Kant: Law for the whole world
“So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.” —Immanuel Kant.
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C S Lewis: Miracle of love
“This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.” —C.S. Lewis.
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Melinda Varian: Working on something else
“The best programs are the ones written when the programmer is supposed to be working on something else.” —Melinda Varian.
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Dinah Maria Mulock Craig: Blow the rest away
“Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath…
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C A R Hoare: Constructing a design
“There are two ways of constructing a [design]: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.”—C.A.R. Hoare.
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C S Lewis: Iniquity
“Let’s pray that the human race never escapes Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.” —C.S. Lewis.
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C S Lewis: Why some do not
“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.” ― C. S. Lewis.
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Glenn T Seaborg: Beauty in discovery
“There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite form in a molecule. Attempts to place different disciplines in different camps are revealed as artificial in the face of the unity of knowledge. All literate men are sustained by the…
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C S Lewis: Instinct
“Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‘people.’ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war. If it is held that the instinct for preserving the species should always be obeyed at the expense of other instincts, whence do we derive this rule of precedence? To listen…
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Clarence Darrow: Other man’s freedom
“You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free.” —Clarence Darrow.
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Thornton Wilder: Child that lost a dog yesterday
“Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.” —-Thornton Wilder.
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C S Lewis: Poi si tornò all’ eterna fontana.
“She said not to me but to the chaplain, ‘I am at peace with God.’ She smiled, but not at me. Poi si tornò all’ eterna fontana.” —C S Lewis.
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Peter Ustinov: Endless forgiveness
“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.” —Peter Ustinov.
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C S Lewis: Eros and friendship
“Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.” ― C. S. Lewis.
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C S Lewis: Sword between the sexes
“There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them. It is arrogance in us to call frankness, fairness, and chivalry ‘masculine’ when we see them in a woman; it is arrogance in them, to describe a man’s sensitiveness or tact or tenderness as ‘feminine’. But also what poor,…
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C S Lewis: Consolations of religion
“Talk to me about the truth of religion and I’ll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I’ll listen submissively. But don’t come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don’t understand.” —C S Lewis.
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Olivia Laing: What art can’t do
“There are so many things that art can’t do. It can’t bring the dead back to life, it can’t mend arguments between friends, or cure AIDS, or halt the pace of climate change. All the same, it does have some extraordinary functions, some odd negotiating ability between people, including people who have never met and…
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C S Lewis: Excellent campaigning weather for the devil
“The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.” ― C. S. Lewis.
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Olivia Laing: Loneliness
“Loneliness, longing, does not mean one has failed but simply that one is alive.” — Olivia Laing.
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C S Lewis: Cut up
“If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.” ― C. S. Lewis.
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C S Lewis: Amphibians
“Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.” ― C. S. Lewis.
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Arnold Toynbee: Civilizations in decline
“Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.” —Arnold Toynbee.
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Amy Goodman: Protesting
‘Protesting is an act of love. It is born of a deeply held conviction that the world can be a better, kinder place. Saying “no” to injustice is the ultimate declaration of hope.’ —Amy Goodman.
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C S Lewis: Adulthood
“Critics who treat ‘adult’ as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And…
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Michael Mauboussin: Preserve options for future play
“You can do the right thing for some time and it won’t show up in results. You have to be able to manage money to see another day—that is, preserve options for future play—and take a long-term view.” —Michael Mauboussin.
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Scott Turow: Stories we tell ourselves
“Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?” —-Scott Turow.
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C S Lewis: Man’s power over Nature
“What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.” —-C.S. Lewis.
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Steve Jobs: Quality
“Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.” —Steve Jobs.
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Warren Buffett: Cash
“The one thing I will tell you is the worst investment you can have is cash. Everybody is talking about cash being king and all that sort of thing. Cash is going to become worth less over time. But good businesses are going to become worth more over time. And you don’t want to pay…
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Gordy Jr & Bradford: That’s what I want
“The best things in life are freeBut you can give them to the birds and beesI need moneyThat’s what I wantThat’s what I wantThat’s what I want” — Berry Gordy Jr. and Janie Bradford, “Money (That’s What I Want),” 1959.
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C S Lewis: Nonsense questions
“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.” ― C. S. Lewis.
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Charles Evans Hughes: Good company
“A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.” —-Charles Evans Hughes.
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C S Lewis: Thirty
“Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.” —-C. S. Lewis.
