Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Lillian Hellman: Truth
“Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.” —Lillian Hellman.
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Salman Rushdie: Freedom of speech
“One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.” —Salman Rushdie.
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Simon Sinek: Not a complicated formula
“If we’re nice to people, people are nice back. It’s not a complicated formula.” —Simon Sinek.
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Roger Ebert: God isn’t going to change his mind
“The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can’t change your mind, because God sure isn’t going to change His.” —-Roger Ebert.
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Paul McCartney: Weird
“I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn’t weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird.” —Paul McCartney.
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Simon Sinek: Away from our desks
“The best place to invent the future is away from our desks.” —Simon Sinek.
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Igor Stravinsky: Work brings inspiration
“Just as appetite comes by eating so work brings inspiration.” —-Igor Stravinsky.
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Simon Sinek: Entrepreneurial adventure
“Forgo the entrepreneurial venture for an entrepreneurial adventure. Ventures only succeed if we make money. Adventures succeed regardless.” —Simon Sinek.
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Deb Caletti: Shifting viewpoint
“All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because we’re liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.” —Deb Caletti.
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Simon Sinek: True courage
“True courage is having the strength to admit our weaknesses.” —Simon Sinek.
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Louis L’Amour: Why are you writing so fast?
“One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter — who was a child at the time — asked me, “Daddy, why are you writing so fast?” And I replied, “Because I want to see how the story turns out!” —Louis L’Amour.
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John Steinbeck: Produce of the second
“It has always seemed strange to me…The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they…
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Simon Sinek: Focus
“Focus on money and you will make money. Focus on impact and you will make an impact.” —Simon Sinek.
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Helen Hunt Jackson: Bosoms of their families
“There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families.” —Helen Hunt Jackson.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Bitterest tears
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.” —-Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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Che Guevara: Cruel leaders
“Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.” —Che Guevara.
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Tim Allen: Work or prison
“Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we’ve always had: work, or prison.” —-Tim Allen.
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Uta Hagen: Overcome the notion
“We must overcome the notion that we must be regular… it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.” —Uta Hagen.
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Ingrid Newkirk: Rat, pig, boy, dog
“When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.” —Ingrid Newkirk.
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Jacques Cousteau: We are human beings
“If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.” —Jacques Cousteau.
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Simon Sinek: Faith
“Faith is knowing we are on a team and accepting that we don’t know who the other players are.” —Simon Sinek.
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E O Wilson: Destroying rainforests
“[Destroying rainforests for economic gain] is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.” —E.O. Wilson.
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Maurice Sendak: Mothers and children
“Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.” —Maurice Sendak.
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Simon Sinek: Listening
“Listening isn’t simply hearing the words. Listening is hearing the meaning behind the words.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: No shortage of causes
“There is no shortage of causes in this world, just a shortage of leaders who can inspire us to pursue them.” —Simon Sinek.
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Johnny Depp: Oxymoron
“The term ‘serious actor’ is kind of an oxymoron, isn’t it? Like ‘Republican party’ or ‘airplane food.’” —Johnny Depp.
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Frank Lloyd Wright: Janitors
“Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.” —Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Nikki Giovanni: Always something to do
“There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don’t expect you to save the world, I do think it’s not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those…
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Liam Neeson: Wolves
“In real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with mankind.” —Liam Neeson.
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Thomas Mann: Time
“Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.” —Thomas Mann.
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Laurie Anderson: Hi, Mom!
“When love is gone, there’s always justice. And when justice is gone, there’s always force. And when force is gone, there’s always Mom. Hi, Mom!” —Laurie Anderson.
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Robert Fulghum: Life is inconvenient
“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of…
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Lawrence Lessig: Latin of our times
“‘Writing’ is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.” —Lawrence Lessig.
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Jefferson Davis: Majority rule
“Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.” —Jefferson Davis.
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Thomas Hardy: Poet and novelist
“The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.” —Thomas Hardy.
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Marquis de Sade: Mode of thought
“It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.” —Marquis de Sade.
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Henry Beston: Fellow prisoners
“The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with…
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Simon Sinek: Flexible
“When we have a clear sense of where we’re going, we are flexible in how we get there.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Delicate blend that drives innovation
“Pure pragmatism can’t imagine a bold future. Pure idealism can’t get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives innovation.” —Simon Sinek.
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Marilyn Monroe: Frightened
“If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.” —Marilyn Monroe.
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Walt Whitman: Sun around a helpless thing
“The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.” —Walt Whitman.
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Clint Eastwood: It’s only a movie
“Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, ‘Clint, you must remember, it’s only a movie.’” —Clint Eastwood.
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Tsar Peter the Great: Scolded
“How often have I not scolded you for this, and not merely scolded you but beaten you… but nothing has succeeded, nothing is any use, all is to no purpose, all is words spoken to the wind, and you want to do nothing but sit at home and enjoy yourself.” —Tsar Peter the Great.
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G K Chesterton: Journalism
“Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.” —G K Chesterton.
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Walker Percy: Perilous affair
“Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone’s finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair?” —Walker Percy.
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Ian Fleming: Enemy action
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.” —Ian Fleming.
