Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Robert Green Ingersoll: True civilization
“The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.” —-Robert Green Ingersoll.
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Sid Waddell: As giraffes say
“Well as giraffes say, you dont get no leaves unless you stick your neck out.” —Sid Waddell.
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Simon Sinek: First into the unknown
“We call someone a leader not because they are in charge but because they have the courage to go first. To risk first. To trust first. First into the unknown.” —Simon Sinek.
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Marvin Minsky: There is no trick
“What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.” —-Marvin Minsky.
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Liz Vassey: Notice the small things
“Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional.” —Liz Vassey.
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William Shakespeare: False face
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.” —William Shakespeare,MACBETH.
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Robin Quivers: Free speech
“If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, ‘We shouldn’t have free speech.’” —Robin Quivers.
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Luc de Clapiers: Sweet to order
“There are none so sour as those who are sweet to order.” —Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues.
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Guy de Maupassant: Avoid war
“Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.” —Guy de Maupassant.
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Guy de Maupassant: More perfect world
“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.” —Guy de Maupassant.
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P D James: Not by the self-regarding
“The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.” —-P.D. James.
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Koichi Taneka: Occasional visit of success
“However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day.” —Koichi Taneka.
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Emily Bronte: Quite cured
“I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.” -Emily Bronte.
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Don Marquis: Enough for all of them
“I have noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race.” —Don Marquis.
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Immanuel Kant: Crooked timber of humanity
“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.” – IMMANUEL KANT.
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Marcel Duchamp: Avoid conforming
“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.” —Marcel Duchamp.
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Esther Dyson: Online standards
“The world is never going to be perfect, either on- or offline; so let’s not set impossibly high standards for online.” – ESTHER DYSON.
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Keenan Wynn: Let the stars take the blame
“My billing has always been, ‘and’, or ‘with’, or ‘including.’ That’s all right, let the stars take the blame.” —Keenan Wynn.
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Kate Beckinsdale: Complete madness
“I think that dwelling on other people’s perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.” —Kate Beckinsdale.
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Bella Abzug: Homemaker
“I prefer the word homemaker because housewife always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.” —Bella Abzug.
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Simon Sinek: No finish line
‘Because the game of business has no finish line, we have to focus on how we play instead of the arbitrary “end of the game.”‘ —Simon Sinek.
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Haile Selassie: Inaction
“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph.” —-Haile Selassie.
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Edward Hopper: No reason to paint
“If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.” —-Edward Hopper.
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Willem Dafoe: Lazy critics
“A lot of critics are lazy. They don’t want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they’ve seen before.” —Willem Dafoe.
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Simon Sinek: Two types of decisions
“There are two types of decisions: good decisions and lessons learned.” —Simon Sinek.
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Ernest Hemingway: Best people
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.” —-Ernest Hemingway.
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Simon Sinek: Employees and customers
“Employees must love the company before the customers ever will.” —Simon Sinek.
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Edmund Hillary: We conquer ourselves
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” —-Edmund Hillary.
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George Burns: Busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair
“Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.” —George Burns.
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Eve Merriam: War
“I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, “Mother, what was war?” —Eve Merriam.
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Edgar Degas: Talent
“Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.” —Edgar Degas.
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko: Silence, a lie
“When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.” —Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
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Juan Antonio Samaranch: Olympism
“Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principles.” —Juan Antonio Samaranch.
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Robert Sheckley: Common vice
“We denizens of Earth have a common vice: We take what we’re offered, whether we need it or not. You can get into a lot of trouble that way.” -Robert Sheckley.
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Simon Sinek: Almost always better
“Companies that claim to be the best rarely are the best. Companies that strive to be better are almost always better.” —Simon Sinek.
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Northrop Frye: Literature
“Literature encourages tolerance — bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they’re so preoccupied with their beliefs and actions that they can’t see them also as possibilities.” —Northrop Frye.
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Irving Stone: Love the same books
“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.” —Irving Stone.
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John Clare: Second edition
“If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.” —John Clare.
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Simon Sinek: Resolve a conflict
“The best way to resolve a conflict not through text or email. The best way to resolve a conflict is to pick up the phone or make a personal visit.” —Simon Sinek.
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Pablo Neruda: Words
“Words / as slippery as smooth grapes, / words exploding in the light / like dormant seeds waiting / in the vaults of vocabulary, / alive again, and giving life: / once again the heart distills them.” —Pablo Neruda.
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Pablo Neruda: When I fall asleep, your eyes close
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my…
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Giorgio Armani: Elegance
“Elegance is not about being noticed, it’s about being remembered.” —Giorgio Armani.
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Nikolas Tesla: Dizzier heights
“With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers, but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood, your step gets firm and sure and you…
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Simon Sinek: Invested
“When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.” —Simon Sinek.
