Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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John Kerry: Listen to it pretty carefully
“I’m fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there’s a lot of poetry in it. There’s a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you’d better listen to it pretty carefully, ’cause it’s important.” —John Kerry.
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Simon Sinek: What we don’t know
“When we say out loud what we don’t know, it increases the likelihood that someone who does know will offer help.” —Simon Sinek.
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Emily Dickinson: Lands away
“There is no frigate like a book / To take us lands away, / Nor any coursers like a page / Of prancing poetry.” —Emily Dickinson.
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Emily Dickinson: Behavior
“Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.” —Emily Dickinson.
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Simon Sinek: Opportunities and danger
“Most people ignore opportunities because they see only danger. Entrepreneurs ignore danger because they see only opportunities.” —Simon Sinek.
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John Milton: Mind in itself
“The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” —-John Milton.
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John Malkovich: Headlines
“People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you’ll never see the headlines say, ‘Six billion people got along rather well today.’ You’ll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other.” —John Malkovich.
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Simon Sinek: Finite versus infinite thinking
‘To ask, “What’s best for me” is finite thinking. To ask, “What’s best for us” is infinite thinking.’ —Simon Sinek.
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Louis de Bernieres: Index of civilization
“The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.” —Louis de Bernieres.
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Leo Tolstoy: Tell the truth
“To tell the truth is the same as to be a good tailor, or to be a good farmer, or to write beautifully. To be good at any activity requires practice: no matter how hard you try, you cannot do naturally what you have not done repeatedly. In order to get accustomed to speaking the…
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Kim Basinger: Anonymity
“You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they’re going to write in whatever clever manner they desire.” —Kim Basinger.
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Simon Sinek: Change
“People don’t fear change. People fear sudden change.People fear revolutions. People don’t fear evolutions.” —Simon Sinek.
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Noam Chomsky: Changes and progress
“Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.” —Noam Chomsky.
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Duncan D Hunter: Middle Eastern culture
“In the Middle Eastern culture, it is looked upon with very high regard to get the best deal possible, no matter what it takes, and that includes lying.” —Duncan D Hunter.
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Tom Hulce: Historical people
“Teachers don’t tell us the truth about historical people. If we knew the truth, parents couldn’t hold their lives up as examples.” —Tom Hulce.
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Walt Disney: Unique
“The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.” —Walt Disney.
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Simon Sinek: Get used to the idea
“If we want to achieve anything in this world, we have to get used to the idea that not everyone will like us.” —Simon Sinek.
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Samuel Butler: Profess no religion
“Is there any religion whose followers can be pointed to as distinctly more amiable and trustworthy than those of any other? If so, this should be enough. I find the nicest and best people generally profess no religion at all, but are ready to like the best men of all religions.” —Samuel Butler.
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Robert Adler: Indigenous cultures
“Most indigenous cultures also have elaborate theories about health and disease, seamlessly entwined with their mythological understanding of the universe and their place in it. Although the details vary, a frequent theme is that illness is caused by having too much or too little of a particular substance in the body.” —Robert Adler.
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Bruce Lee: Independent inquiry
“Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else’s view or a mere book.” —Bruce Lee
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Julianne Moore: Looking for the truth
“I’m looking for the truth. The audience doesn’t come to see you, they come to see themselves.” —Julianne Moore.
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Joseph Conrad: Every wickedness
“A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.” —Joseph Conrad.
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Simon Sinek: Great people and great ideas
“Without great people, even great ideas are useless.” —Simon Sinek.
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John Roberts: Bad luck
“From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly, so that you will come to know the value of justice. I hope that you will suffer betrayal because that will teach you the importance of loyalty. Sorry to say, but I hope you will be lonely from time…
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Nigel Calder: Science
“Science does correct itself and that’s the reason why science is such a glorious thing for our species.” —Nigel Calder.
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Maria Callas: Good and great teachers
“Good teachers make the best of a pupil’s means; great teachers foresee a pupil’s ends.” —Maria Callas.
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Rex Stout: What the tongue has promised
“What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.” —Rex Stout.
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Alexander Solschenizyn: Lying
“We know they are lying. They know they are lying, They know that we know they are lying. We know that they know that we know they are lying. And still they continue to lie.” —Alexander Solschenizyn.
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Simon Sinek: Careless
“When we care less about our people, our people become careless.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Vision
‘”Vision” is the ability to talk about the future with such clarity, it is as if we are talking about the past.’ —Simon Sinek.
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Jonathan Swift: Laws
“Laws are like cobwebs which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” —-Jonathan Swift.
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Marcus Aurelius: Ranks of the insane
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” —Marcus Aurelius.
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George Orwell: Political language
“Political language – and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists – is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” —George Orwell.
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Carl Sagan: Prescription for disaster
“We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and…
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C S Lewis: Tyranny
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own…
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Sir Winston Churchill: Where it hurts
“Nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get into the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man, who knows where it hurts, is a safer guide than any rigorous direction of a specialist.” —Sir Winston Churchill.
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Robert Gascoyne-Cecil: Insipid common sense
“No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you never should trust experts. If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require to have their strong wine diluted by a…
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Ideology
“To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good, or else that it’s a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions… Ideology – that is what gives the evildoing its…
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Charles Mackay: Herds
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.” —Charles Mackay.
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Billy Idol: Misconception
“The biggest misconception people have about me is that I’m stupid.” —Billy Idol.
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Sheena Iyengar: Choice
“Choice is more than picking x over y. It is a responsibility to separate the meaningful and the uplifting from the trivial and the disheartening. It is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow.” —Sheena Iyengar.
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Ed Harris: Against the soldiers
“There’s always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you’re criticizing a decision to go to war, then you’re saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case.” —Ed Harris.
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Bruce Lee: Use only that which works
“Use only that which works and take it from any place you can find it.” —-Bruce Lee.
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Francoise d’Aubigne de Maintenon: Solace others
“The true way to soften one’s troubles is to solace those of others.” —Francoise d’Aubigne de Maintenon
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Simon Sinek: Give a little more
“Giving is sometimes as simple as saying ‘thank you’ to someone and meaning it. We should all give a little more.” —Simon Sinek.
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Charles Schulz: Just love one another
“The best theology is probably no theology; just love one another.” —-Charles Schulz.
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Diego Maradona: Hand of God
“Everybody in Argentina can remember ‘the hand of God’ in the England match in the 1986 World Cup. Now, in my country, the ‘hand of God’ has brought us an Argentinian pope.” —Diego Maradona.
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Charles M Schulz: All you need is love
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” —Charles M. Schulz
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Simon Sinek: Responsibility
“For an employee to take responsibility, they must first be given it.” —Simon Sinek.
