Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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Margaret Mead: Change the world
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” —–Margaret Mead.
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Simon Sinek: When to break the rules
“We don’t trust people to follow the rules. We trust people to know when to break them.” –Simon Sinek.
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John Milton: Reproach them for their blindness
“Those who put out the people’s eyes, reproach them for their blindness.” —John Milton
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Noam Chomsky: Limits of debate
“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum — even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system…
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Jonathan Swift: All his opinions
If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc., beginning from his youth and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last! -Jonathan Swift.
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Steven Brust: Seek understanding
“To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called . Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.” —-Steven Brust.
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George Wald: Learned small boy
“A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives.” —George Wald.
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Joseph McCabe: Different reason
“An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.” —Joseph McCabe.
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Peter Weiss: Glorious victories
“Once and for all / the idea of glorious victories / won by the glorious army / must be wiped out / Neither side is glorious / On either side they’re just frightened men messing their pants / and they all want the same thing / Not to lie under the earth / but to…
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Simon Sinek: Just cause
“A Just Cause should direct a business model, not the other way around.” —Simon Sinek.
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Yaa Gyasi: Family
“The family is like the forest: if you are outside, it is dense; if you are inside you see that each tree has its own position.” —Yaa Gyasi.
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Yaa Gyasi: Weakness and strength
“You want to know what weakness is? Weakness is treating someone as though they belong to you. Strength is knowing that everyone belongs to themselves. “ —Yaa Gyasi.
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James Reston: Foreign affairs
“This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.” —James Reston.
