Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Enid Blyton: Don’t leave someone for something
“Leave something for someone but don’t leave someone for something.” —Enid Blyton
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Leo Fender: Easy to repair, easy to construct
“If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct.” —Leo Fender.
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Alija Izetbegovic: No matter how ugly the truth
“I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn’t been kind to us, but, with the help of God, we will prevail.” —Alija Izetbegovic.
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Russell Ackoff: Problem
“The best thing that can be done to a problem is to solve it.False.The best thing that can be done to a problem is to dissolve it, to redesign the entity that has it or its environment so as to eliminate the problem.Such a design incorporates common sense and research and increases our learning more…
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Guy de Maupassant: Memory
“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.” —Guy de Maupassant.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley: If thou kiss not me?
“The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?” —Percy Bysshe Shelley
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P D James: Every bird his worm
“God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.” —P D James.
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P D James: What a child doesn’t receive
“What a child doesn’t receive he can seldom later give.” —P.D. James, novelist.
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Isabel Allende: Inhabited by spirits
“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.” —Isabel Allende.
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Jed S Rakoff: Baseball
“In baseball you have individual responsibility, and if you fail it, you get an error. But at the same time, your focus is on the common goal of the team to win. This is part of what resonates with people about baseball. This is how they would like society to work.” —Jed S Rakoff.
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Simon Sinek: Opportunity in uncertainty
“An infinite mindset sees opportunity in uncertainty.” —Simon Sinek.
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Annie Parisse: Right button
“You’d just be amazed what people will do. You really would. And not crazy people. Ostensibly normal people. When the right person touches the right button in someone, you can get them to do almost anything.” —Annie Parisse.
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Simon Sinek: Something to believe in
“Great leaders give everyone something to believe in, not something to do.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Something to believe in
“Great leaders give everyone something to believe in, not something to do.” —Simon Sinek.
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Emily Bronte: Tyrant
“The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.” —Emily Bronte.
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Josh Radnor: Be kind
“It’s not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even – or rather, especially – when we’d prefer not to be.” —Josh Radnor.
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Karl Popper: Social creatures
“We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.” -Karl Popper, philosopher and professor (28 Jul 1902-1994).
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John Ashberry: Experiences
“I write with experiences in mind, but I don’t write about them, I write out of them.” —John Ashberry.
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Robert Rankin: Plagiarising
“Too afraid of plagiarising someone, so I stopped reading fiction in 1981.” —Robert Rankin.
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C G Jung: Transformed
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” —C.G. Jung.
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Regis Philbin: Four women
“When are four women ever happy for another woman getting something they’d love to have? Tell me that.” —Regis Philbin.
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Jay R Ferguson: Certainly
“Certainly I’m always willing to talk to anyone who’s interested in talking to me!” —Jay R Ferguson.
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Bella Abzug: Homemaker
“I prefer the word homemaker because housewife always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.” —Bella Abzug.
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Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy: Scar tissue
“It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.” —Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.
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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.
