Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Aesop: Thieves and public office
“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” —Aesop.
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Muhammad Ali: Rude to the waiter
“I don’t trust anyone who’s nice to me but rude to the waiter. Because they would treat me the same way if I were in that position.” —Muhammad Ali.
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Russell Brand: Inequality
“When I was poor and complained about inequality they said I was bitter; now that I’m rich and I complain about inequality they say I’m a hypocrite. I’m beginning to think they just don’t want to talk about inequality.” —Russell Brand.
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Jeff Weiner: Best products
“Almost without exception, the best products are developed by teams with desire to solve a problem; not a company’s need to fulfil a strategy.” —Jeff Weiner.
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Trent Johnson: Next level of disruption
“If you focus only on diversity numbers, you might get people to join your team, but if they don’t feel included, they’ll leave. I personally believe inclusion is the next level of disruption.”— Trent Johnson.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: Artistic space, musical time
“Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.” —Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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Rebecca West: If there is a God
“If there is a God, I don’t think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to him.” —Rebecca West.
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John F Kennedy: Conformity
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” – John F. Kennedy.
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Susanne Langer: New questions, new knowledge
“If we would have new knowledge, we must get us a whole world of new questions.” —Susanne Langer.
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Phil Ochs: World of hunger in vengeance
“And the evil is done in hopes that evil surrenders / But the deeds of the devil are burned too deep in the embers / And a world of hunger in vengeance will always remember.” —Phil Ochs.
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Colleen Hoover: Best outcomes
“Sometimes the hardest decisions a person can make will most likely lead to the best outcomes.” — Colleen Hoover.
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Vincent Van Gogh: I must still have hope
“Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me…
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Bill Bullard: Opinion
“Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge… is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.” —Bill Bullard.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Judging
“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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Margaret Mead: Someone to wonder where you are
“One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.” —Margaret Mead.
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Joyce Wheeler: Leave alone and pause
“Sometimes it’s better to leave something alone, to pause, and that’s very true of programming.” ––Joyce Wheeler.
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Ellen Jane Willis: Arbitrary
‘In its original literal sense, “moral relativism” is simply moral complexity. That is, anyone who agrees that stealing a loaf of bread to feed one’s children is not the moral equivalent of, say, shoplifting a dress for the fun of it, is a relativist of sorts. But in recent years, conservatives bent on reinstating an…
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Ross Macdonald: Walls of books
“The walls of books around me, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.” —Ross Macdonald.
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Gustave Flaubert: Violent and original work
“Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work.” —-Gustave Flaubert.
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Rafe Sagarin: Organisms in nature
“Organisms in nature have survived and thrived for three and a half billion years, and they’ve done it without any kind of planning or predicting, or anything that we spend so much of our time doing.” — Rafe Sagarin.
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George Herbert: Lean compromise
“A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.” –– George Herbert.
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Louis Kronenberger: Modest vanity
“Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty.” —Louis Kronenberger.
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Mario Fusco: Old programs
“Programs, like people, get old. We can’t prevent ageing, but we can understand its causes, limit its effects and reverse some of the damage.” —Mario Fusco.
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James Thurber: Two kinds of light
“There are two kinds of light — the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.” —James Thurber.
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Willa Cather: Happiness
“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.” —Willa Cather.
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Alan Rosenberg: Leverage
“Fair play doesn’t pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage.” —Alan Rosenberg.
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Leo Tolstoy: All else is folly
“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.” —Leo Tolstoy.
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Kahlil Gibran: Said a blade of grass
‘Said a blade of grass to an autumn leaf: “You make such a noise falling! You scatter all my winter dreams.” Said the leaf indignant: “Lowborn and low-dwelling! Song-less, peevish thing! You live not in the upper air and you cannot tell the sound of singing.” Then the autumn leaf lay down upon the earth…
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Christina Rosssetti: Work never begun
“Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.” —Christina Rossetti.
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Rumi: Expansive love
“When your love contracts in anger, the atmosphere itself feels threatening. But when you’re expansive, no matter what the weather, you’re in an open, windy field with friends.” —Rumi.
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Rumi: Two kinds of intelligence
“There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired, as a child in school memorizes facts and concepts from books and from what the teacher says, collecting information from the traditional sciences as well as from the new sciences. With such intelligence you rise in the world. You get ranked ahead or behind others in regard…
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Rumi: Let the lover be
“Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be.” —Rumi.
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Rumi: Poetry can be dangerous
“Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.” ― Rumi.
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Rumi: Love comes with a knife
“Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!” ― Rumi.
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Thomas Carlyle: Accomplish something
“The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.” —Thomas Carlyle.
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Ann Patchett: Disturb the world around you
“The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived.” —Ann Patchett.
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Roedy Green: Longer, harder
The longer it takes for a bug to surface, the harder it is to find.” —Roedy Green.
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Rumi: Look at the giver
“When someone is counting out gold for you, don’t look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.” ― Rumi.
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Rumi: Relationship booster
“Here is a relationship booster that is guaranteed to work: Every time your spouse or lover says something stupid make your eyes light up as if you just heard something brilliant.” ― Rumi.
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Sarah Silverman: Taboo
“I like talking about things that are taboo because it makes them not taboo anymore.” -Sarah Silverman.
