Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Virgil Thomson: Musician
“I’ve never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.” —Virgil Thomson.
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Simon Sinek: Confidence versus arrogance
“Confidence is believing in yourself. Arrogance is telling others you’re better than they are. Confidence inspires. Arrogance destroys.” —Simon Sinek.
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Alec Nove: Understand
“To understand is not to forgive. It is simply better than the alternative, which is not to understand.” —Alec Nove.
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Simon Sinek: Lasting fulfillment
“When we help ourselves, we find moments of happiness. When we help others, we find lasting fulfillment.” —Simon Sinek.
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Sathya Sai Baba: Desires
“Man’s many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weigh him down.” —Sathya Sai Baba.
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Friedrich Nietzsche: Ascribe
“One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.” —Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Billie Jean King: Champion
“A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.” —Billie Jean King.
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Simon Sinek: How perfect it could be
“It’s better to do it than talk about how perfect it could be.” —Simon Sinek.
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Joe Biden: Beacon for the globe
“I believe at our best America is a beacon for the globe. And we lead not by the example of our power, but by the power of our example.” —Joe Biden.
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Simon Sinek: Fulfillment
“Most of us live our lives by accident – we live it as it happens. Fulfillment comes when we live our lives on purpose.” —Simon Sinek.
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Peter Drucker: Whole man
“One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.” —Peter Drucker.
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Simon Sinek: Movement
“If a movement is to have an impact it must belong to those who join it, not just those who lead it.” —Simon Sinek.
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William Shenstone: Anger
“Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.” —William Shenstone.
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Alan Perlis: Simplicity follows complexity
“Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.” —Alan Perlis.
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George Gallup: Statistical monstrosity
“I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone – the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity.” —George Gallup.
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Albert Einstein: Western science
“Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility to find out causal relationships by systematic experiment (during the Renaissance)” —- Albert Einstein.
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Danny DeVito: Two dilemmas
“There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won’t stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won’t go?” —Danny DeVito.
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Simon Sinek: Finite and infinite players
“Finite players play to beat the people around them. Infinite players play to be better than themselves.” —Simon Sinek.
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Chinua Achebe: Integrity
“One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.” —-Chinua Achebe.
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Tiberius Julius Caesar: Good shepherd
“It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.” —Tiberius Julius Caesar.
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William Cowper: Applause
“O, popular applause! What heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?” —William Cowper.
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Stefano Gabbana: Behind the scenes
“You have to work very hard behind the scenes, to make a message clear enough for a lot of people to understand.” —Stefano Gabbana.
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Aayan Hirsi Ali: Link
“Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and wrong. But acknowledging that there is a link between Islam and terror is appropriate and necessary.” —Aayan Hirsi Ali.
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Simon Sinek: New ideas
“New ideas need audiences like flowers need bees. No matter how brilliant, they will die unless others work to spread them.” —Simon Sinek.
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Steve Huffman: Texting
“I’m rarely in a position where I can actually answer my phone without being rude to someone else. Sometimes I look back and realize it’s been weeks since I’ve actually been alone. With texting, I can at least get a sense of what’s going on without interrupting what I’m doing.” —Steve Huffman.
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Simon Sinek: Excessive drive for order
“An excessive drive for order interrupts the beautiful chaos needed for creativity to thrive.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Help others
‘There is an entire section in the bookshop called “self-help.” What we really need is a section called “help others.”‘ —Simon Sinek.
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Richard Burton: Best rubbish
“If you’re going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.” —Richard Burton.
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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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Carl Sagan: Very small stage, vast cosmic arena
“The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner…
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Eric Auerbach: Full individuality
“The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man, for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.” —Erich Auerbach.
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Kamala Harris: Silence is complicity
“Let’s speak the truth: People are protesting because Black people have been treated as less than human in America. Because our country has never fully addressed the systemic racism that has plagued our country since its earliest days. It is the duty of every American to fix. No longer can some wait on the sidelines, hoping for…
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James Jones: Modern warfare
“I don’t think that combat has ever been written about truthfully; it has always been described in terms of bravery and cowardice. I won’t even accept these words as terms of human reference any more. And anyway, hell, they don’t even apply to what, in actual fact, modern warfare has become.” —James Jones.
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Zig Ziglar: Lack of direction
“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” —Zig Ziglar.
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Anthony de Mello: Properly wicked
“To be properly wicked, you do not have to break the Law. Just observe it to the letter.” —Anthony de Mello.
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Simon Sinek: Disappoint with truth
“It’s better to disappoint with the truth than please with a lie.” —Simon Sinek.
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Ruth Handler: Dreams of their own futures
“They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women.” —Ruth Handler, inventor of the Barbie doll.
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David Foster Wallace: Voting
“There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some diehard’s vote.” —David Foster Wallace.
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Conor Cruise O’Brien: Christian unity
“Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity.” —Conor Cruise O’Brien.
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Simon Sinek: No need for each other?
“If we were good at everything, we’d have no need for each other.” —Simon Sinek.
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Sean Connery: Privilege
“I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.” —Sean Connery.
