Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Russell Lincoln Ackoff: Common sense
“Common sense has the very curious property of being more correct retrospectively than prospectively, it seems to me that one of the principal criteria to be applied to successful projects is that its results are almost always obvious retrospectively; unfortunately, they seldom are successful prospectively.Common sense provides a kind of ultimate validation after the work;…
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Lenny Bruce: Hiroshima was dirty
“You can’t do anything with anybody’s body to make it dirty to me. Six people, eight people, one person — you can do only one thing to make it dirty: kill it. Hiroshima was dirty.” —Lenny Bruce.
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Charles Reznikoff: Fingers of thoughts
“The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly.” —Charles Reznikoff.
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Tommy Lee Jones: Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow
“A thousand years ago, everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, they knew the Earth was flat. Fifteen minutes ago, you knew we humans were alone on it. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow.” —Tommy Lee Jones.
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Dwight D Eisenhower: Don’t join book burners
“Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book…” —Dwight D Eisenhower.
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Richard Feynman: Be a free thinker
“Be a free thinker.We must be careful not to believe things simply because we want them to be true.Don’t accept everything you hear as truth.Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.” ― Richard Feynman.
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Summer Sanders: Big picture
“To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. Its not about winning and losing, its about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. Its about embracing the pain that you’ll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard…
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Abraham Lincoln: With malice toward none
“With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to…
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Josh Hutcherson: Love as motivator
“Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything. Once you say the character is in love, he can do the craziest thing that nobody would do who’s not in love. Once you’re in love, you have that excuse to go and do whatever you want.” —Josh…
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Robert John Halligan: Engineering system
“Regard the engineering system as having the same criticality as that of the system being engineered.”—Robert John Halligan.
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Fridtjof Nansen: Forward
“I demolish my bridges behind me – then there is no choice but forward.” —Fridtjof Nansen.
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Calvin Coolidge: Persistence
‘Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.The slogan “Press On!” has solved and always will solve the problems of…
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Ivo Andric: Bridges
“From everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living, nothing in my eyes is better and more valuable than bridges. They are more important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to everyone and being equal to everyone, useful, always built with a sense, on the spot where most human needs are…
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Frank Herbert: Fear
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will…
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Dwight D Eisenhower: Followers
“In order to be a leader, a man (or woman) must have followers. And to have followers a man (or woman) must have their confidence. Hence, the supreme quality of a leader is unquestionably integrity. without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in…
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Garrett Camp: Wiki
“A lot of productivity is capturing ideas. I use a wiki – its more valuable than e-mail for running a company – and I have a page for every person with whom I interact frequently.” —Garrett Camp.
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Simon Sinek: Only two ways
“There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.” —Simon Sinek.
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Sting: Jealous
“I can’t really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don’t see why I should.” —Sting.
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Simon Sinek: Stress versus passion
“Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion.” —Simon Sinek.
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Karl Popper: Intolerance
“In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance.” — Karl Popper.
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Tim O’Brien: Fiction
“That’s what fiction is for. It’s for getting at the truth when the truth isn’t sufficient for the truth.” —Tim O’Brien.
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Jalal ud-Din Tumi: Buy bewilderment
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.” —Jalal ud-Din Rumi.
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Miguel de Cervantes: Self-deceit
“No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.” —Miguel de Cervantes.
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Martin Heidegger: Man and language
“Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.” —Martin Heidegger.
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Evelyn Beatrice Hall: Goodness
“There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.” —Evelyn Beatrice Hall.
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Marcello Mastroianni: A profession?
“They come for you in the morning in a limousine, they take you to the studio, they stick a pretty girl in your arms… They call that a profession? Come on!” —-Marcello Mastroianni.
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Gwyneth Paltrow: Incredibly delicious
“I’m not sure how healthy bacon is in general, but I know it’s incredibly delicious.” —Gwyneth Paltrow.
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Shel Silverstein: Hug o’ war
“I will not play at tug o’ war. / I’d rather play at hug o’ war, / Where everyone hugs instead of tugs.” —Shel Silverstein, writer.
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Edward Bach: Mediator
“In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul.” —Edward Bach.
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Simon Sinek: Accountability versus blame
“Accountability is hard. Blame is easy. One builds trust, the other destroys it.” —Simon Sinek.
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Fay Weldon: Worry
“Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.” —Fay Weldon.
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C J Mahaney: Discouraged
“I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged – easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.” —C J Mahaney.
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Ned Tanen: Done those things
“Every woman has had the guy she’s broken up with park across the street and stare at her door. Every guy has had someone call at two in the morning and hang up. Or you’ve been the person who has done those things.” —Ned Tanen.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Tune out
“When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out. Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.” —Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Lady
“My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.” —Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Leon Jaworski: Competent extremist
“I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.” —Leon Jaworski.
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Christian Lous Lange: Greater chance of survival
“All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.” —Christian Lous Lange.
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William Carlos Williams: News from poems
“It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.” —William Carlos Williams.
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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi: Vitamin
“A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill if you don’t eat it.” —Albert Szent-Gyorgyi.
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Agatha Christie: Curious and beautiful
“Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.” —Agatha Christie.
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Solomon Asch: Social acts
“Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated… No error in thinking about social acts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.” —Solomon Asch.
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Jacqueline Bisset: Three lives
“Ideally, couples need three lives, one for him, one for her, and one for them together.” —Jacqueline Bisset.
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Albert Einstein: Life’s coming attractions
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” ― Albert Einstein.
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Roger E Kasperson: Political act
“… the defining of risk is essentially a political act.” —Roger E. Kasperson.
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Amy Yasbeck: Off camera
“After you play husband and wife on camera multiple times, it becomes easy to be husband and wife off camera as well.” —Amy Yasbeck.
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Stephen Jay Gould: Erroneous stories
“The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best — and therefore never scrutinize or question.” —Stephen Jay Gould.
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Colin Firth: Philistine country
“The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I’m not denying they exist. But it’s a far more philistine country than people think.” —Colin Firth.
