Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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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.
