Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Anonymous: Only three things matter
“In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.” ― Anonymous
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Bruce Willis: Big love of your life
“When you think about where are you going to find that big love of your life, you seldom think it’s someone you already know. You think it’s someone you’re yet to meet.” —Bruce Willis.
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Simon Sinek: Responsibiliy
“For an employee to take responsibility, they must first be given it.” —Simon Sinek.
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John Updike: Brutal facts of being a carnivore
“I’m somewhat shy about the brutal facts of being a carnivore. I don’t like meat to look like animals. I prefer it in the form of sausages, hamburger and meat loaf, far removed from the living thing.” —John Updike.
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John Updike: Dare to go it alone
“Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.” —John Updike.
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Simon Sinek: Constant education
“Leadership is not an expertise. Leadership is a constant education.” —Simon Sinek.
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Bayard Rustin: Dignity
“When an individual is protesting society’s refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.” —Bayard Rustin.
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Marilyn Monroe: Running away from myself
“I’ve spent most of my life running away from myself.” —Marilyn Monroe.
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Chester Bennington: Alone in a world, with millions of souls
“Alone in a world, with millions of souls, Walking in circles, Trapped in their dreams, Unhealthy,unclean walking in circles, Now do not disturb, Scream in silence, Everyone’s sleeping. —Chester Bennington.
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Kurt Cobain: If my eyes could show my soul
“If my eyes could show my soul, everyone would cry when they saw me smile.” —Kurt Cobain.
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Mac Miller: With a smile
“No matter where life takes me, find me with a smile Pursuit to be happy, only laughing like a child I never thought life would be this sweet It got me cheesin’ from cheek to cheek.” —Mac Miller.
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Anthony Bourdain: No final resting place of the mind
“Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom…is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.” —Anthony Bourdain.
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Chris Farley: Life on life’s terms
“I used to think that you could get to a level of success where the laws of the universe didn’t apply. But they do. It’s still life on life’s terms, not on movie-star terms. I still have to work at relationships. I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.…
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Philip Seymour Hoffman: Success
“Success isn’t what makes you happy. It really isn’t. Success is doing what makes you happy and doing good work and hopefully having a fruitful life. If I’ve felt like I’ve done good work, that makes me happy. The success part of it is all gravy.” —Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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Keith O’Brien: Cross of Christ
“I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live…
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Simon Sinek: More opportunity
“There is more opportunity in leaving people wanting more than giving them so much they wish they had less.” —Simon Sinek.
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James Madison: Rights of the people
“I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the rights of the people by the gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” —James Madison.
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Ben Okri: Beware the stories you read or tell
“Beware the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.” —Ben Okri.
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Andrew Jackson: In error
“Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.” —Andrew Jackson.
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Michael Caine: Gangs
“What a lot of people don’t realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.” —Michael Caine.
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William H Macy: He doesn’t care
“Oh yeah, that’s the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp, he’s the real deal, isn’t he? He doesn’t get the girl, and he doesn’t care.” —William H Macy.
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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.
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Richard Steele: Whenever you commend
“Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.” —Richard Steele.
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Simon Sinek: Accountability versus blame
“Accountability is hard. Blame is easy. One builds trust, the other destroys it.” —Simon Sinek.
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Douglas Adams: Skewed
“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas-covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal, is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.” —Douglas Adams.
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Douglas Adams: Sincerity and integrity
“To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.” —-Douglas Adams.
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Simon Sinek: Good and great leaders
“Good leaders have the ability to inspire us in their lifetime. Great leaders have the ability to inspire us beyond their lifetime.” —Simon Sinek.
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H W Fowler: Direct, simple, brief, vigorous and lucid
“Anyone who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.” —-H.W. Fowler.
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Paul Haggis: Emotional medium
“Film is an emotional medium; it’s not a logical medium. It’s not an intellectual medium, so every decision you make as a filmmaker and an actor has to be emotional in some way, even in the rejection of logic.” —Paul Haggis.
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Simon Sinek: Greatest test
“Our greatest test may not come from the path we travel to success. Our greatest test is what we do with success once we find it.” —Simon Sinek.
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P Z Myers: Be like bowling
“What I want to happen to religion in the future is this: I want it to be like bowling. It’s a hobby, something some people will enjoy, that has some virtues to it, that will have its own institutions and its traditions and its own television programming, and that families will enjoy together. It’s not…
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Howard Aiken: Ram them down people’s throats
“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.” —Howard Aiken.
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Simon Sinek: When things go awry
“Appreciate when things go awry. It makes for a better story to share later.” —Simon Sinek.
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G D Anderson: Feminism
“Feminism isn’t about making women strong. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength.” —G.D. Anderson.
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James Baldwin: Deal with pain
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” —James Baldwin.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr: Not a crystal
“A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging; it is the skin of living thought and changes from day to day as does the air around us.” —-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Socrates: Useless studies
“I am amused, I said, at your fear of the world, which makes you guard against the appliance of insisting upon useless studies; and I quite admit the difficulty of believing that in every man there is an eye of the soul which, when by other pursuits lost and dimmed, is by there purified and…
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Cheryl James: Come out of the box
“Christians often want to hide behind the walls of the church, where we are comfortable, but sometimes we have to come out of the box.” —Cheryl James.
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Henry Million: Common, ordinary, everyday achievement
“Most of us are not interested in greatness, just in common, ordinary, everyday achievement.”—-Henry Million.
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Simon Sinek: Worthy rival
“Traditional competition forces us to take on an attitude of winning; a Worthy Rival inspires us to take on an attitude of improvement.” ~ Simon Sinek.
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Tammy Faye Baker: Religious people
“Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them.” —Tammy Faye Baker.
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Benjamin Franklin: Work
“It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.” —Benjamin Franklin.
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Francis Atterbury: Falsity of supposition
“The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.” —Francis Atterbury.
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Simon Sinek: Recognize
“Leaders don’t look for recognition from others. Leaders look for others to recognize.” —Simon Sinek.
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Penn Jillette: Wicked ugly
“For 50 million years our biggest problems were too few calories, too little information. For about 50 years our biggest problem has been too many calories, too much information. We have to adjust, and I believe we will really fast. I also believe it will be wicked ugly while we’re adjusting.” —-Penn Jillette.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen: Lips continuously moving
“Like a snake who must keep swimming to live, a politician must keep his lips continuously moving.”—Viet Thanh Nguyen.
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Rosa Luxemburg: No freedom at all
“Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party – though they are quite numerous – is no freedom at all.” —Rosa Luxemburg.
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Simon Sinek: Inspired
“A leader must be inspired by the people before a leader can inspire the people.” —Simon Sinek.
