Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Julia Cameron: Creativity
‘Creativity — like human life itself — begins in darkness. We need to acknowledge this. All too often, we think only in terms of light: “And then the lightbulb went on and I got it!” It is true that insights may come to us as flashes. It is true that some of these flashes may…
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William Wordsworth: Wiser mind
“The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.” —William Wordsworth.
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Simon Sinek: New ideas
“New ideas need audiences like flowers need bees. No matter how bright and colorful, they will die unless others work to spread them.” —Simon Sinek.
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Brotherhood that spans continents and generations
“And no matter where you go or what you do, you will be inextricably bound to a brotherhood that spans continents and generations. Every hearth that bears the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor is home, every arm being that brand brings a helping hand; every fellow Marine is your brother. And that will never change, as…
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Edmund Waller: Discreetly blot
“Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.” —Edmund Waller.
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Simon Sinek: Trust
“Trust doesn’t develop from always doing the right thing. Trust comes from taking responsibility when we do the wrong thing.” —Simon Sinek.
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John Irving: Religious freedom
“Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else’s religion practiced on us.” —John Irving.
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Lt Gen H H Driessnack: Control
“Don’t let the tool control the hand that uses it.” —Lt Gen H. H. Driessnack.
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Jon Bon Jovi: Very different
“There are those who advocate, and those who do. I’m not trying to slight my peers, but there is a difference between using a soapbox and actually getting your hands dirty. I’ve spent not only years and millions of dollars but hours and hours and hours of my time doing what I do, and that’s…
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Simon Sinek: Assign
“Assign tasks and people will work for you. Assign responsibility and people will work for themselves.” —Simon Sinek.
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Richard Wilbur: Opposite of two
“What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.” —Richard Wilbur.
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Warren Beatty: Advantages of California
“To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California – mightily.” —Warren Beatty.
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Seth Godin: Situation
“Problems have solutions. That’s what makes them problems. A problem without a solution isn’t a problem, it’s simply a situation.” —Seth Godin.
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T Cuyler Young: Technology
“We pretend that technology, our technology, is something of a life force, a will, and a thrust of its own, on which we can blame all, with which we can explain all, and is the end by means of which we can excuse ourselves.”—T. Cuyler Young.
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Berthold Auerbach: Self-contempt
“Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.” —Berthold Auerbach.
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault: Hostages to prejudice
“If people are informed they will do the right thing. Its when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.” —Charlayne Hunter-Gault.
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Victor Hugo: In spite of ourselves
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” —Victor Hugo.
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Irving Janis: Working together
“Working together to accomplish great things will always be a part of the human experience and success depends on our people skills and individual courage to confront group consensus.” —Irving Janis.
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Victor Hugo: Real and ideal
“The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.” —Victor Hugo.
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Simon Sinek: Once the employees love it first
“Customers will only love the company once the employees love it first.” —Simon Sinek.
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Richard Wright: Evidence can be presented
“Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.” —Richard Wright.
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Pierre Auguste Renoir: Beauty remains
“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” —Pierre Auguste Renoir.
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Simon Sinek: Hire for attitude
“You don’t hire for skills, you hire for attitude. You can always teach skills.” —Simon Sinek.
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Ayn Rand: Consequences of evading reality
“We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.” —Ayn Rand.
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Steve Jobs: Yardstick of quality
“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.” —Steve Jobs.
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W.E.B. Du Pois: Theory of democratic government
“The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.” —-W.E.B. Du Bois.
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Simon Sinek: Building the future
“Time spent fixing the past takes time away from building the future.” —Simon Sinek.
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Charles Kettering: Half-solved
“A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.”— Charles Kettering.
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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.
