Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Horace Mann: Differing from yourself
“Do not think of knocking out another person’s brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.” —Horace Mann.
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Benjamin Spock: Man
“Man can be the most affectionate and altruistic of creatures, yet he’s potentially more vicious than any other. He is the only one who can be persuaded to hate millions of his own kind whom he has never seen and to kill as many as he can lay his hands on in the name of…
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Henry Fielding: Hear reason
“Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.”—Henry Fielding.
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Henry Clay: Compatible with liberty
“All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.” —-Henry Clay.
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William Wordsworth: Best portion
“The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.” —-William Wordsworth.
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Booker T Washington: Place responsibility
“Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.” —Booker T. Washington.
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Maya Angelou: We may even become friends
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” -Maya Angelou.
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Andrew Marvell: No crime
“Had we but world enough, and time, / This coyness, Lady, were no crime.” —-Andrew Marvell.
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John Updike: Bearings
“We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.” —John Updike.
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Robert Blatchford: Religions
“Religions are not revealed: they are evolved. If a religion were revealed by God, that religion would be perfect in whole and in part, and would be as perfect at the first moment of its revelation as after ten thousand years of practice. There has never been a religion that fulfills those conditions.” —-Robert Blatchford.
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A K Ramanujan: Trees and oranges
“You can sometimes count every orange on a tree but never all the trees in a single orange.” —-A.K. Ramanujan.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Fight in a way that others join you
“Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.” —-Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Luther Burbank: Nature’s laws
“Nature’s laws affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.” —-Luther Burbank.
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Alexander Graham Bell: Work at hand
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” —Alexander Graham Bell.
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Michel de Montaigne: I govern myself
“Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.” —-Michel de Montaigne.
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George Harrison: My guitar gently weeps
“I look at the world and I notice it’s turning / While my guitar gently weeps / With every mistake we must surely be learning / Still my guitar gently weeps.” —George Harrison.
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Hans Asperger: Dash of autism
“It seems that for success, in science or art, a dash of autism is essential. For success the necessary ingredients may be an ability to turn away from the everyday world, from the simple practical, an ability to rethink a subject with originality so as to create in new untrodden ways.” -Hans Asperger.
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Simon Sinek: Creativity
“The opportunity for creativity begins the moment we don’t know what we’re doing.” —Simon Sinek.
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Douglas Hofstadter: Hofstadter’s law
“Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.” —Douglas Hofstadter.
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Simon Sinek: It just has to be done
“It doesn’t have to be beautiful, it doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be done.” —Simon Sinek.
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Richard Powers: Tree falls and planting
“Trees fall with spectacular crashes. Planting is silent and growth invisible.” —Richard Powers.
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Thomas Michael Disch: Jobs
“Jobs are like going to church: it’s nice once or twice a year to sing along and eat something and all that, but unless you really believe there’s something holy going on, it gets to be a drag going in every single week.” —-Thomas Michael Disch.
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Langston Hughes: Tomorrow’s bread
“I tire so of hearing people say, / Let things take their course. / Tomorrow is another day. / I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. / I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.” —Langston Hughes.
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Simon Sinek: Thank you
“When was the last time you said thank you to your friends for being your friends? Good friends are a gift. It’s just polite to say thank you.” —-Simon Sinek.
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Billings Learned Hand: Loyalty to truth
“I will remember that what has brought us up from savagery is a loyalty to truth, and truth cannot emerge unless it is subjected to the utmost scrutiny — will you not agree that a society which has lost sight of that, cannot survive?” —Billings Learned Hand.
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Ellen DeGeneres: Through the eyes of others
“Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.” —-Ellen DeGeneres.
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Simon Sinek: Responsibility
“We take responsibility for our actions at the time we perform our actions, not at the time we get caught.” —-Simon Sinek.
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William Somerset Maugham: Success
“The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind.” -William Somerset Maugham.
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William J Bernstein: Delusional crowds
“What separates delusional crowds from wise ones is the extent of their members’ interactions with each other…. The more a group interacts, the more it behaves like a real crowd, and the less accurate its assessments become. Occasionally, crowd interaction becomes so intense that madness results. As put most succinctly by Friedrich Nietzsche, ‘Madness is…
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Edith Wharton: Little healing in its touch
“As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.” —–Edith Wharton.
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Simon Sinek: Metrics and people
All managers of metrics have an opportunity to become leaders of people.—–Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Authenticity
“Authenticity is more than speaking. Authenticity is also about doing. Every decision we make says something about who we are.” —Simon Sinek.
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Harvey S Firestone: Narrow perspective
“I notice that when all a man’s information is confined to the field in which he is working, the work is never as good as it ought to be. A man has to get a perspective, and he can get it from books or from people — preferably from both. This thing of sleeping and…
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Gerald Durrell: Habitat
“You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that habitat and you will exterminate the species as surely as if you had shot it. So conservation means that you have to preserve forest and grassland, river and lake, even the sea itself.…
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Kahlil Gibran: Lust for comfort
“The lust for comfort murders the passions of the soul.” —Kahlil Gibran.
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Simon Sinek: Mature companies
“Mature companies fail because they forget why they were born. “ —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Networking
“The true value of networking doesn’t come from how many people we can meet, but rather how many people we can introduce to others.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: No right or wrong time
“There’s no right or wrong time. Better now than later and better late than never.” —Simon Sinek.
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J R R Tolkien: Live dragon
“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. -J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Henri Matisse: Never be a prisoner
“An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.” —Henri Matisse.
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Louis Pasteur: When I approach a child
“When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.” —Louis Pasteur.
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Sinon Sinek: Hearing and listening
“Hearing is listening to what’s said. Listening is hearing what isn’t said.” —Simon Sinek.
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Charles de Lint: See the stories
“No one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.” —Charles de Lint.
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Simon Sinek: Look ahead
“Optimists focus on the place they are going. Pessimists focus on the obstacles along the route. To become an optimist, simply look ahead.”
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Susanne Langer: Whole world of new questions
“If we would have new knowledge, we must get us a whole world of new questions.” —-Susanne Langer.
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Simon Sinek: No need for teams
“We can’t be good at everything. If we were, there would be no need for teams.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Open doors
“When we try to keep all the doors open, for fear we walk through the wrong one, we may end up having all the doors closed on us. ” —Simon Sinek.
