Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Arthur Schopenhauer: Masquerade party
“The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.” —-Arthur Schopenhauer.
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Anthony Daniels: Music
“Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.” —Anthony Daniels.
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William Baldwin: Community
“A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life – and I don’t mean money.” —William Baldwin.
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Simon Sinek: If we just let them
“There are people who care about us, love us and will be there for us… if we just let them.” —Simon Sinek.
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Constantin Brancusi: Inhabited sculpture
“Architecture is inhabited sculpture.” —Constantin Brancusi.
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Mark Twain: Obituaries
“I’ve never wished someone dead, but I’ve read some obituaries with great pleasure.” —Mark Twain.
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Nikos Kazantzakis: Strange machine man is
“What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out come sighs, laughter, and dreams.” —Nikos Kazantzakis.
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Thomas J Watson: Company
“A man is known by the company he keeps. A company is known by the men it keeps.” —Thomas J. Watson.
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Michael Jordan: Expectations
“If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.” —Michael Jordan.
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Simon Sinek: Remarkable
“When we give expecting nothing in return, it is remarkable how much more others will give back to us.” —Simon Sinek.
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Margaux Hemingway: One with body
“If you are at one with your body, then you are at one with yourself.” —Margaux Hemingway.
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Galileo Galilei: Ripen a bunch of grapes
“The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.” —-Galileo Galilei.
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Galileo Galilei: Not with the Scriptures
“I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.” —Galileo Galilei.
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Douglas MacArthur: Insidious forces working from within
“I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.” —-Douglas MacArthur.
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Valery Legasov: Cost of lies
“What is the cost of lies? It’s not that we’ll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all.” —Valery Legasov, Chernobyl the movie.
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Chuck Yeager: Rules
“Rules are made for people who aren’t willing to make up their own.” —Chuck Yeager.
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Charles Darwin: So much misery in the world
“I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with…
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Simon Sinek: Winner of life
“No matter how much money we make, no matter how much power we accumulate, no matter how many promotions we’re given, none of us will ever be declared the winner of life.” —Simon Sinek.
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Stephen A Brennan: Vehicle of a plan
“Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a Plan in which we must fervently believe and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route in success.” — Stephen A. Brennan.
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Abraham Lincoln: I am bound to be true
“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.”…
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Thomas Alva Edison: Non-violence
“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.” —Thomas Edison.
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Simon Sinek: Pick up the phone
“Remember to connect with people now and then. In fact, pick up the phone, right now, and call a friend for no other reason than to say hi.” —Simon Sinek.
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Rene Descartes: Permit no delay
“Situations in life often permit no delay; and when we cannot determine the course which is certainly best, we must follow the one which is probably the best. . . This frame of mind freed me also from the repentance and remorse commonly felt by those vacillating individuals who are always seeking as worthwhile things…
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Joseph Jourbet: Wings but no feet
“He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.” —Joseph Jourbet.
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Thomas Alva Edison: Best thinking
“The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.” —Thomas Alva Edison.
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Simon Sinek: Dangers from inside
“When the people have to manage dangers from inside the organization, the organization itself becomes less able to face the dangers from outside.” —Simon Sinek.
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Boris Pasternak: Irresistible power of unarmed truth
“What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.” —-Boris Pasternak.
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William Plomer: Connect the seemingly unconnected
“It is the function of creative men to perceive the relations between thought, or things, or forms of expression that may seem utterly different, and to be able to combine them into some new forms – the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.” — William Plomer.
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Bob Iger: Assume that role immediately
“I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.” —Bob Iger.
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Simon Sinek: Never a purpose, always a result
“Money is never a purpose, it is always a result.” —Simon Sinek.
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Thomas Paine: My country, my religion
“My country is the world and my religion is to do good.” —-Thomas Paine.
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G K Chesterton: Only the weak can be brave
“The strong cannot be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.” —G. K. Chesterton.
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Alice Walker: Refuse to be a clone
“We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.” —Alice Walker.
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Simon Sinek: Make that vision our own
‘There is only a small percentage of the population that we can truly call “visionary.” For the rest of us, instead of trying to “have” a vision, we can work to find one that inspires us… then make that vision our own.’ —Simon Sinek.
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John Ruskin: Pretty small package
“When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.” —-John Ruskin.
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Jules Verne: Rash as Americans usually are
“It may be taken for granted that, rash as Americans usually are, when they are prudent, there is good reason for it.” —Jules Verne.
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Charles Dickens: Construction and creation
“The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.” —Charles Dickens.
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Zsa Zsa Gabor: Getting married and divorced
“Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.” —Zsa Zsa Gabor.
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Simon Sinek: Common purpose
“A team is a group of people that works together with common purpose, not just a group of people assigned to work on the same project.” —Simon Sinek.
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Adlai Stevenson II: Less cruel ways
“It is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation. There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.” —Adlai Stevenson II.
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Simon Sinek: Change the world
“What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.” —Simon Sinek.
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Alice Cooper: Rebellion
“Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that’s a tough call. That’s rebellion.” —Alice Cooper.
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Gertrude Stein: Too careful
“Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.” —Gertrude Stein.
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Walter Bagehot: Public opinion
“Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men’s thoughts, to speak other men’s words, to follow other men’s habits.” —Walter Bagehot.
