Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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William Makepeace Thackeray: Life is a mirror
“Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back, if you smile, it returns the greeting.” —William Makepeace Thackeray.
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Molly Parker: Landscape
“The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.” —Molly Parker.
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Yuval Noah Harari: How history unfolds
“That’s how history unfolds. People weave a web of meaning, believe in it with all their heart, but sooner or later the web unravels, and when we look back we cannot understand how anybody could have taken it seriously.” —Yuval Noah Harari.
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Anita Brookner: Good and bad women
“Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything. “ —Anita Brookner
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Anonymous: Sparks a light
“ You often feel tired, not because you’ve done too much, but because you’ve done too little of what sparks a light in you. ” ― Anonymous
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Pasquier Quesnel: Zeal
“Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.” —Pasquier Quesnel.
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Tullian Tchividjian: Legalism
“Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.” —Tullian Tchividjian.
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George Eastman: Wealth
“If a man has wealth, he has to make a choice, because there is the money heaping up. He can keep it together in a bunch, and then leave it for others to administer after he is dead. Or he can get it into action and have fun, while he is still alive. I prefer…
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Jennifer Armintrout: Disturbing estimate
“The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.” —Jennifer Armintrout.
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Marcel Proust: War
“The truth is that every morning war is declared afresh. And the men who wish to continue it are as guilty as the men who began it, more guilty perhaps, for the latter perhaps did not foresee all its horrors.” —Marcel Proust.
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Nikolai Tesla: Dizzier heights
“With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers, but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood, your step gets firm and sure and you…
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Trevor Noah: Limited
“We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited.”– Trevor Noah.
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Glen Cook: Morning is wonderful
“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.” —Glen Cook.
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Jean de la Fontaine: Built of marble
“The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard and very polished people.” —-Jean de la Fontaine.
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Nancy Farmer: Gardens
“People’s souls are like gardens. You can’t turn your back on someone because his garden’s full of weeds. You have to give him water and lots of sunshine.” —Nancy Farmer.
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David Eddings: General opinion
“If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.” —David Eddings.
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Simon Sinek: Movement
“If a movement is to have an impact, it must belong to those who join it, not those who lead it.” —Simon Sinek.
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Donald Knuth: Bottom of things
“Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration. I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I…
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Peter Singer: Tribal ethic
“In an earlier stage of our development most human groups held to a tribal ethic. Members of the tribe were protected, but people of other tribes could be robbed or killed as one pleased. Gradually the circle of protection expanded, but as recently as 150 years ago we did not include blacks. So African human…
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Hanns Eisler: Continuation of life
“A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.” —Hanns Eisler.
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Frederick Lewis Allen: Complicated
“Everything is more complicated than it looks to most people.” —Frederick Lewis Allen.
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Ann Landers: Let go and then do it
“Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.” —Ann Landers.
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George Sanders: Big questions
“Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.” —George Sanders.
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Simon Sinek: Words inspire, actions change
“Words may inspire but only action creates change.” —Simon Sinek.
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Thurgood Marshall: Dissent
“We must dissent from the fear, the hatred, and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that buried its head in the sand waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear and just blow away. We must dissent from a government that has left its young…
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Herman Hesse: Laugh at the rest
“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.” —Herman Hesse.
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Joseph Hall: Where the crack was
“A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.” —Joseph Hall.
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Simon Sinek: Inspired to inspire
“A leader must be inspired by the people before a leader can inspire the people.” —Simon Sinek.
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Czeslaw Milosz: Grow for ages
“Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.” —Czeslaw Milosz.
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Simon Sinek: Loyal employees
“The most loyal employees feel their leaders genuinely care about them… because their leaders genuinely do care about them.” —Simon Sinek.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Transport
“Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures — in this century, as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
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Conrad Hilton: Success and action
“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” ~Conrad Hilton.
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Giorgio Napolitano: Credibility
“It takes a lot of effort to win back credibility after having lost it so heavily.” —Giorgio Napolitano
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Richard Rodgers: Beautiful
“Do I love you because you’re beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?” —Richard Rodgers.
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Pearl S Buck: Small joys, big happiness
“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.” —Pearl S Buck.
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Simon Sinek: Infinite-minded leader
“An infinite-minded leader does not simply want to build a company that can weather change but one that can be transformed by it.” —Simon Sinek.
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George Orwell: “Keeping out of politics”
‘In our age there is no such thing as “keeping out of politics”. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia.’ —George Orwell.
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Sebastian Junger: Hardship
“Humans don’t mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.” —Sebastian Junger.
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Phyllis George: Labor-saving device
“The most popular labor-saving device is still money.” —Phyllis George.
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Simon Sinek: Defeat pessimism with optimism
“The only way to defeat pessimism is with optimism.” —Simon Sinek.
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Brooks Adams: Friendship
“One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.” —Brooks Adams.
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Edward VIII: Only two rules really count
“Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself, never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.” —Edward VIII.
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Peter Bevelin: Changing people
“One thing that has been reinforced is how hard it is to change people’s opinions or beliefs. On the other hand, this is understandable. As the author Jacob Braude said: ‘Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have of trying to change others.’ The lesson? It is…
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Richard Bach: Surprise quiz
“It’s like, at the end, there’s this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?” —Richard Bach.
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Damian Lillard: Outwork thousands
“If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.” —Damian Lillard.
