Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Oliver Sacks: Memories
“We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust’s jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection.” —Oliver Sacks.
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David Hockney: Greedy
“I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money – I think that can be a burden – I’m greedy for an exciting life.” —David Hockney.
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Simon Sinek: Accept responsibility when things go wrong
“A leader should only take credit when things go right unless they are willing to accept responsibility when things go wrong.” —Simon Sinek.
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: Stained glass windows
“People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.” —Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.
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Richard Aldington: Nationalism
“Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.” —Richard Aldington.
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Robert A Heinlein: Sin
“Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other ‘sins’ are invented nonsense.” —Robert A. Heinlein.
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Satchel Paige: Social ramble ain’t restful
“1) Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood. 2) If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. 3) Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. 4) Go very light on the vices, such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain’t restful. 5) Avoid…
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Simon Sinek: Inspire others to give
“Don’t give to get. Give to inspire others to give.” —Simon Sinek.
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Peter Singer: Animal factories
“Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.” —-Peter Singer.
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Sylvester Stallone: Show your soul
“You’ve got to show your soul otherwise you’re just a piece of equipment.” —Sylvester Stallone.
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Victoria Abril: Passion has to be real
“You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.” —Victoria Abril.
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Franz Kafka: Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” —Franz Kafka.
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Thurgood Marshall: Highest tribute
“In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.” —Thurgood Marshall.
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Pierre Cardin: Jeans
“The jean! The jean is the destructor. It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity! The jean must be stopped!” —Pierre Cardin.
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Simon Sinek: Excuses
“Excuses don’t make things better, they are a way to rationalize to avoid trying.” —Simon Sinek.
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Princess Diana: Can’t comfort the afflicted
“You can’t comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.” —Princess Diana.
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Simon Sinek: They don’t have what you have
“Don’t freak out over what other people have. They don’t have what you have.” —Simon Sinek.
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John Gay: Life is a jest
“Life is a jest, and all things show it, / I thought so once, and now I know it.” —John Gay.
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Mike Tyson: Time is like a book
“Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It’s just a cycle.” —Mike Tyson.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Travel light
“He who would travel happily must travel light.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
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Simon Sinek: Conversation starts with listening
“Any worthwhile conversation starts with listening.” —Simon Sinek.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau: Wisdom
“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?” —Jean Jacques Rousseau.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau: Right to risk his own life
“Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?” —Jean Jacques Rousseau.
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Isabelle Adjani: Choose persons worthy
“In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don’t keep them.” —Isabelle Adjani.
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Robert Davi: Journeys into inner psyches
“Great storytellers in the past would go to an unknown land and return to tell the stories they’ve found. Those were also journeys into their inner psyches and that’s still true today. An actor, a writer, does that as if saying, ‘Here’s what I’ve discovered about myself and about the world I’m in. I would…
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Simon Sinek: Begetting
“Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.” —Simon Sinek.
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George Orwell: Lunacy
“What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?” —George Orwell.
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Nancy Allen: The more you work with anyone
“The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.” —Nancy Allen.
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Simon Sinek: Heart must be won
“The mind can be convinced, but the heart must be won.” —Simon Sinek.
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Richard Bach: Simplest questions
“The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.” —-Richard Bach.
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Giambattista Vico:Common sense
“Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.” —Giambattista Vico.
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Him that I love
“Him that I love, I wish to be free — even from me.” —-Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
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Meryl Streep: Empathy
“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.” —Meryl Streep.
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Jean-Paul Sartre: Value is the meaning you choose
“Life has no meaning a priori. … It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.” —Jean-Paul Sartre.
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Francoise Sagan: Illusion of art
“Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.” —Francoise Sagan.
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Andrei Alexandrescu: Multithreading
“Multithreading is just one damn thing after, before, or simultaneous with another.” –Andrei Alexandrescu.
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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.
