Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Kelly McGonigal: Stress
“Stress is what arises when something you care about is at stake. This definition is big enough to hold both the frustration over traffic and the grief over a loss. It includes your thoughts, emotions, and physical reactions when you’re feeling stressed, as well as how you choose to cope with situations you’d describe as…
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Mikhail Bakunin: Caution
“By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.” —Mikhail Bakunin.
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Richard Rybolt: Be patient
“There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.” ~ Richard Rybolt.
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Simon Sinek: Excitement and fulfillment
“Excitement comes from the achievement. Fulfillment comes from the journey that got you there.” —Simon Sinek.
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John F Kennedy: Nation afraid of its people
“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.” —John F. Kennedy.
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Charlie Munger: That simple
“The wise ones bet heavily when the world offers them that opportunity. They bet big when they have the odds. And the rest of the time, they don’t. It’s just that simple.” —Charlie Munger.
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Jeff Raikes: No market
“In business, the market gives you feedback in real time. Your sales figures tell you what’s working, what isn’t, and how you need to change. If you don’t listen to the feedback, you go belly up. In philanthropy, there is no market.” —Jeff Raikes.
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Walker Percy: Worst of us
“We love those who know the worst of us and don’t turn their faces away.” —Walker Percy.
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Ian Fleming: Adventures
“Never say ‘no’ to adventures. Always say ‘yes,’ otherwise you’ll lead a very dull life.” —Ian Fleming.
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Julia Ward Howe: Disarm, disarm
“Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.” —Julia Ward Howe.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Satire
“Satire should, like a polished razor keen, wound with a touch that’s scarcely felt or seen.” —Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
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Robert Orben: Laugh together, work together
“If you can laugh together, you can work together.” ~Robert Orben.
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John Wayne: No nuances
“I stick to simple themes. Love. Hate. No nuances. I stay away from psychoanalyst’s couch scenes. Couches are good for one thing.” —John Wayne.
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William Henry Channing: Synphony
“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word,…
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Martin Luther King, Jr: Dark enough
“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.” ― Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Eli Goldratt: Complexity
“The impression of complexity is probably due to lack of proper analysis and not to any inherent complexity of our systems.” —Eli Goldratt.
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Aly Raisman: Sense of accomplishment
“You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger. The bad days make you realize what a good day is. If you never had any bad days, you would never have that sense of accomplishment!” —Aly Raisman.
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Bob Dylan: Colleges
“Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.” —Bob Dylan.
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Steve Jobs: Focusing is about saying no
“We had to decide what are the fundamental directions we’re going in, and what makes sense and what doesn’t. And there were a bunch of things that didn’t. Micro-cosmically they might have made sense. Macro-cosmically they made no sense. When you think about focusing, you think ‘Focusing is saying yes.’ No. Focusing is about saying no.” —Steve…
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Johnny Ball: Discrimination due to age
“Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.” —Johnny Ball.
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Vance Packard: Leadership
“Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.” —Vance Packard.
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Howard Marks: Elevated popular opinion
“…most investors think quality, as opposed to price, is the determinant of whether something’s risky. But high quality assets can be risky, and low quality assets can be safe. It’s just a matter of the price paid for them. . . . Elevated popular opinion, then, isn’t just the source of low return potential, but…
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Plato: Greatest blabbers
“As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers.” —Plato.
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Rita Levi-Montalcini: I am my mind
“The body does whatever it wants. I am not my body; I am my mind.” —Rita Levi-Montalcini.
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Honore de Balzac: Solitude
“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.” —Honore de Balzac.
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Dave Ramsey: Limited by their leader
“Organizations are not limited by their opportunity; they are limited by their leader.” —Dave Ramsey.
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Kevin Garnett: Try to fix the things you can
“At the end of the day, you’re responsible for yourself and your actions and that’s all you can control. So rather than be frustrated with what you can’t control, try to fix the things you can.” —Kevin Garnett.
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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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Winston Churchill: Illuminate
“A man can wear out a particular part of his mind by continually using it and tiring it…[and this tired part] can be rested and strengthened, not merely by rest, but by using other parts. It is not enough merely to switch off the lights which play upon the main and ordinary field of interest;…
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John C Maxwell: Price of example
“You must be willing to pay the price of example if you want others to follow your lead.” -John C. Maxwell.
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Andreas Katsulas: As you are now
“You’re only as good as you are now – not as good as you were before.” —Andreas Katsulas.
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Leon Trotsky: War
“Si vis pacem, para bellumyou may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.” ― Leon Trotsky.
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Anna Jameson: Fear
“In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness, in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.” —Anna Jameson.
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Edward T Hall: Radical move
“For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking… giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move.” —Edward T. Hall.
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Madeleine Albright: As a leader
“As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.” —Madeleine Albright.
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Lao Tzu: Best leader
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” ––Lao Tzu.
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Alison Jackson: It doesn’t matter
“You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room – 30 seconds of what’s going on in Syria – and when you’ve had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through screens and images in this way, and we don’t know what is real or fake anymore.…
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Robert Jarvik: Leaders are visionaries
“Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.” —Robert Jarvik.
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Daphne du Maurier: How simple life becomes
“How simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten.” —Daphne du Maurier.
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Isaac Asimov: Cult of ignorance
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that Democracy means that My Ignorance is just as Good as Yor Knowledge.” —Isaac Asimov.
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Stephen Colbert: No desire
“We have no desire to make anybody look like a blithering idiot, but we do love it when they do.” —Stephen Colbert.
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Les Brown: Your life depends on it
“Find out what it is you want and go after it as if your life depends on it. Why? Because it does!” -Les Brown
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Katharine Hepburn: Just being is fun
“I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.” —Katharine Hepburn.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Science
“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Florence Nightingale: Success
“I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.” —Florence Nightingale.
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Simon Sinek: Telling the truth
“Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear.” —Simon Sinek.
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Pema Chodron: You are the sky
“You are the sky. Everything else — it’s just the weather.” —Pema Chodron.
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Evan Williams: Own product
“Be a user of your own product. Make it better based on your own desires. But don’t trick yourself into thinking you are the user.” ~Evan Williams.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin: Diverse perspectives
“Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.”—Doris Kearns Goodwin
