Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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L P Hartley: Foreign country
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” —L.P. Hartley.
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Eliza Dushku: What do you have to lose?
“Go big or go home. Because it’s true. What do you have to lose?” —Eliza Dushku.
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Simon Sinek: Losing and failing
“There is a difference between losing and failing.Losing reflects the score. Failing reflects our attitude.” —Simon Sinek.
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Pablo Casals: Love of one’s country
“The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?” —Pablo Casals.
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Mary Tyler Moore: Cloning
“There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful diseases. Then there is reproductive cloning, which is to make a human being out of your DNA and a donor egg.” —Mary Tyler Moore.
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Turkish proverb: Look, he is one of us
‘The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe because the handle was made of wood and they said ” Look, he is one of us”.’ ~ Turkish proverb.
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Simon Sinek: Great structures
“An architect imagines what if. A builder figures out how to. Great structures emerge only when the two work well together.” —Simon Sinek.
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Rose Franken: Real lovers
“Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.” —Rose Franken.
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Woodrow Wilson: Against the stream
“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.” —Woodrow Wilson.
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Louis Pasteur: Two sentiments
“When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.” —Louis Pasteur.
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Mao Zedong: We think too small
“We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.” —Mao Zedong.
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Simon Sinek: Goal of life
“The goal of life is not to have our lives mean something to ourselves.The goal of life is to have our lives mean something to others.” —Simon Sinek.
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Rod Serling: Tools of conquest
“The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy; and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of…
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Isaac Newton: Greatest friend is truth
“Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.” —Isaac Newton.
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Simon Sinek: Greatness
“Greatness is only possible if you believe, without any doubt, that the future is bright.” —Simon Sinek.
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George Crabbe: Habit
“Habit with him was all the test of truth, / It must be right: I’ve done it from my youth.” -George Crabbe.
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Ava Gardner: Off screen
“Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn’t have been more wrong.” —Ava Gardner.
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Dale Robert Greenley: Ignorance and bigotry
“One can be ignorant without being bigoted, but one can’t be bigoted without being ignorant.” -Dale Robert Greenley.
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Harry Shearer: Bananas in cheese department
“Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you’re looking for morals in politics you’re looking for bananas in the cheese department.” —Harry Shearer.
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Simon Sinek: Patterns
“There may be patterns for the things that succeed, but that doesn’t mean there’s a formula for success.” —Simon Sinek.
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Charles de Lint: Quiet wonders
“Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors. And this I will tell you as well: One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.” —-Charles de Lint.
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Vanessa Paradis: Scary soulmate
“The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.” —Vanessa Paradis.
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Florence Luscomb: Tragedy
“The tragedy in the lives of most of us is that we go through life walking down a high-walled lane with people of our own kind, the same economic situation, the same national background and education and religious outlook. And beyond those walls, all humanity lies, unknown and unseen, and untouched by our restricted and…
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Simon Sinek: Sales and loyalty
“To drive sales, make a pitch. To build loyalty, make a friend.” —Simon Sinek.
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Jane Fonda: Master of the situation
“We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.” —Jane Fonda.
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Alexander Hamilton: Speedy victim
“An individual who is observed to be inconsistent to his plans, or perhaps to carry on his affairs without any plan at all, is marked at once. By all prudent people, as a speedy victim to his own unsteadiness and folly.“― Alexander Hamilton.
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Bill Walsh: Harsh reality of newspaper editing
“A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don’t allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines.” —Bill Walsh.
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Simon Sinek: Hearing versus listening
“Hearing is listening to what is said. Listening is hearing what isn’t said.” —Simon Sinek.
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Paul Klee: Art should be like a holiday
“Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.” —-Paul Klee.
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Brad Pitt: Success is a beast
“Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.” —Brad Pitt.
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Communism
“That which is against communism is for humanity. Not to accept, to reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. It isn’t being a member of a party.” —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
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Ludwig van Beethoven: Good soup
“Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.” —Ludwig van Beethoven.
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Billy Gibbons: Play what you want to hear
“Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you’re barking up the wrong tree.” —Billy Gibbons.
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Muriel Rukeyser: Made of stories
“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.” —-Muriel Rukeyser.
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John Le Carre: We lie to one another every day
“We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another.” —John Le Carre.
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Matsuo Basho: Seek what they sought
“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.” ― Matsuo Basho.
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Don Johnson: They don’t want to know nothing about you!
“People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don’t want to know nothing about you!” —Don Johnson.
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Marcus Aurelius: Junk junk
“You can discard most of the junk that clutters your mind—things that exist only there—and clear out space for yourself: … by comprehending the scale of the world… by contemplating infinite time… by thinking of the speed with which things change—each part of every thing; the narrow space between our birth and death; the infinite…
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Simon Sinek: Biological reaction
“Trust is a biological reaction to the belief that someone has our well-being at heart.” —Simon Sinek.
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Ellen Jane Willis: Moral complexity
‘In its original literal sense, “moral relativism” is simply moral complexity. That is, anyone who agrees that stealing a loaf of bread to feed one’s children is not the moral equivalent of, say, shoplifting a dress for the fun of it, is a relativist of sorts. But in recent years, conservatives bent on reinstating an…
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Jane Birkin: He doesn’t paint me anymore
“He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn’t paint me anymore.” —Jane Birkin.
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Taylor Swift: Dealing with relationships
“I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.” —Taylor Swift.
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Frank Sinatra: Staring contest
“I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn’t be a staring contest.” —Frank Sinatra.
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Simon Sinek: Focus on vision, not numbers
“Focus on the vision and the numbers will thrive. Focus on the numbers and the vision will struggle (and so will the numbers).” —Simon Sinek.
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Violence and falsehood
“Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds. Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only support in violence. Any man who has once acclaimed violence as…
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Warren Buffett: Go forward
“Don’t fear failure…. Don’t let it eat at you. Don’t look back. Just keep going. You’re going to have some things, but forget them. Go forward.” —Warren Buffett.
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Phil Knight: Just keep going
“Let everyone else call your idea crazy…just keep going. Whatever comes, just don’t stop.… I believe it’s the best advice – maybe the only advice – any of us should ever give.” —Phil Knight.
