Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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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.
