Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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Billy Wilder: Trust your own instinct
“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.” —Billy Wilder
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Shirin Ebadi: Human rights
“Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.” —Shirin Ebadi.
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Epicetus: Conquer opinion
“It is better, by yielding to truth, to conquer opinion; than, by yielding to opinion, to be defeated by truth.” ——-Epictetus
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Blaise Pascal: Justified strength
“Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.” —Blaise Pascal.
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Salman Rushdie: Language is courage
“Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.” —Salman Rushdie.
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Bassam Tarazi: Out of control
“The only thing you can really control is how you react to things out of your control.”—Bassam Tarazi.
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Paul McCartney: Glass walls
“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.” —Paul McCartney.
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Jim Rohn: Risk the usual
“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” ~Jim Rohn
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Chris Van Allsburg: Santa
“Santa is our culture’s only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It’s a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that’s a pity.” —Chris Van Allsburg.
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Simon Sinek: Invest in relationships
“Invest in relationships. Life is hard. None of us has the strength to do it alone. We need people to encourage and inspire us so we can encourage and inspire others.” —Simon Sinek.
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Igor Stravinsky: Possibility of being right
“Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.” —Igor Stravinsky.
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Igor Stravinsky: Felt it
“I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.” —Igor Stravinsky.
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Simon Sinek: Workers and leaders
“When we tell people to do their jobs, we get workers. When we trust people to get the job done, we get leaders.” —Simon Sinek.
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Erich Segal: Get your ears checked
“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” —Erich Segal.
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Brian Jacques: Strongest and bravest
“Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others.” —Brian Jacques.
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Marc Andreesen: Read a dozen books
“The problem of having to finish every book is you’re not only spending time on books you shouldn’t be but it also causes you to stall out on reading in general. If I can’t start the next book until I finish this one, but I don’t want to read this one, I might as well…
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Simon Sinek: Life is beautiful
“Life is beautiful not because of the things we see or the things we do. Life is beautiful because of the people we meet.” —Simon Sinek.
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Anne Frank: Start improving the world
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” -Anne Frank.
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George Herbert Walker Bush: Minds and hairdos
“When it comes to the minds and hairdos of our young people, something had to be done.” —George H W Bush.
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Ingrid Newkirk: Was that all wrong?
“Not until black demonstrators resorted to violence did the national government work seriously for civil rights legislation … In 1850 white abolitionists, having given up on peaceful means, began to encourage and engage in actions that disrupted plantation operations and liberated slaves. Was that all wrong?” -Ingrid Newkirk.
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Simon Sinek: Struggles
“Our struggles are the short-term steps we must take on our way to long-term success.” —Simon Sinek.
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Emma Lazarus: Until we are all free
“Until we are all free, we are none of us free.” — Emma Lazarus.
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Shia LaBeouf: Sort of like luck “Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. It’s not really anything, its just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort…
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Maurice Sendak: Like a lover
“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.” —Maurice Sendak.
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Simon Sinek: Remarkable things
“The ability of a group of people to do remarkable things hinges on how well those people can pull together as a team.” —Simon Sinek.
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Sandra Day O’Connor: You’ve got to do something
“It’s not enough to understand; you’ve got to do something.” —Sandra Day O’Connor.
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Natalie Portman: Cute
“Cute is when a person’s personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them.” —Natalie Portman.
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John W Campbell Jr: With a club
“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, ‘Can’t you remember anything I told you?’ and lets fly with a club.” —John W. Campbell Jr.
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Steve Jobs: Layers of the onion
“When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions. Most people just don’t…
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Deborah Tannen: Biggest mistake
“The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation – or a relationship.” —Deborah Tannen.
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Niccolo Machiavelli: Political disorders
“Political disorders can be quickly healed if they are seen well in advance; when, for lack of a diagnosis, they are allowed to grow in such a way that everyone can recognize them, remedies are too late.” — Niccolo Machiavelli.
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Duncan Hunter: Actual military operations
“Nothing matures a military force quicker than actual military operations.” —Duncan Hunter.
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Nassim Taleb: Opposite of fragile
“The opposite of fragile is something that actually gains from disorder.” – Nassim Taleb.
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Garry Kasparov: Crises
“Crises usually accelerate real trends in society and technology; they don’t create or refute them.” –-Gary Kasparov.
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Charles Perrow: Warning systems
“Unfortunately, most warning systems do not warn us that they can no longer warn us.” – Charles Perrow.
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Colin Quinn: Crazy contradiction
“Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We’re not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We’re meant to be this way. It’s not our fault, it’s just who we are.” —Colin Quinn.
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Laurie Anderson: What you stand for
“You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.” —Laurie Anderson.
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Leo Tolstoy: Except by getting off his back
“I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means — except by getting off his back.” —Leo Tolstoy.
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James Callis: Achilles heel
“Anybody who has political ambition has an Achilles heel.” —James Callis.
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Lawrence Lessig: Nothing more dangerous
“There is nothing more dangerous than a government of the many controlled by the few.” —Lawrence Lessig.
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Hale Irwin: Never underestimate my talents
“I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.” —Hale Irwin.
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Cornel West: Social chaos
“The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.” —Cornel West.
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Peter Asher: Other people’s positions
“In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people’s positions.” —Peter Asher.
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Simon Sinek: Good and poor leaders
“Under poor leaders we feel like we work for the company. With good leaders we feel like we work for each other.” —Simon Sinek.
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Brigham Young: Good man
“A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.” —Brigham Young.
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Jerry Seinfeld: Will is finite
“I’m going to adjust your perspective a little bit. That was no will. What you were using, what Michael Jordan uses and what I use, is not will. It’s love. When you love something, it’s a bottomless pool of energy. That’s where the energy comes from. But you have to love it sincerely. Not because…
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Elon Musk: Twitter
“It’s hard to make everyone happy, especially on Twitter. Look, you can either say things that are not controversial at all, and then you’re boring, and nobody cares. Some of the things I say, I would like to retract them. It’s not like I stand by all the tweets I’ve ever done. Some of them…
