Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Simon Sinek: New ideas
“New ideas need audiences like flowers need bees. No matter how brilliant, they will die unless others work to spread them.” —Simon Sinek.
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Steve Huffman: Texting
“I’m rarely in a position where I can actually answer my phone without being rude to someone else. Sometimes I look back and realize it’s been weeks since I’ve actually been alone. With texting, I can at least get a sense of what’s going on without interrupting what I’m doing.” —Steve Huffman.
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Simon Sinek: Excessive drive for order
“An excessive drive for order interrupts the beautiful chaos needed for creativity to thrive.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: Help others
‘There is an entire section in the bookshop called “self-help.” What we really need is a section called “help others.”‘ —Simon Sinek.
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Richard Burton: Best rubbish
“If you’re going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.” —Richard Burton.
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Simon Sinek: Change the world
“What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.” —Simon Sinek.
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Carl Sagan: Very small stage, vast cosmic arena
“The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner…
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Eric Auerbach: Full individuality
“The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man, for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.” —Erich Auerbach.
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Kamala Harris: Silence is complicity
“Let’s speak the truth: People are protesting because Black people have been treated as less than human in America. Because our country has never fully addressed the systemic racism that has plagued our country since its earliest days. It is the duty of every American to fix. No longer can some wait on the sidelines, hoping for…
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James Jones: Modern warfare
“I don’t think that combat has ever been written about truthfully; it has always been described in terms of bravery and cowardice. I won’t even accept these words as terms of human reference any more. And anyway, hell, they don’t even apply to what, in actual fact, modern warfare has become.” —James Jones.
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Zig Ziglar: Lack of direction
“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” —Zig Ziglar.
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Anthony de Mello: Properly wicked
“To be properly wicked, you do not have to break the Law. Just observe it to the letter.” —Anthony de Mello.
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Simon Sinek: Disappoint with truth
“It’s better to disappoint with the truth than please with a lie.” —Simon Sinek.
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Ruth Handler: Dreams of their own futures
“They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women.” —Ruth Handler, inventor of the Barbie doll.
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David Foster Wallace: Voting
“There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some diehard’s vote.” —David Foster Wallace.
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Conor Cruise O’Brien: Christian unity
“Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity.” —Conor Cruise O’Brien.
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Simon Sinek: No need for each other?
“If we were good at everything, we’d have no need for each other.” —Simon Sinek.
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Sean Connery: Privilege
“I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.” —Sean Connery.
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Carl Sagan: Laughed at
“… the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.” — Carl Sagan.
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Dan Rather: Sharp stick called truth
“The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth.” —Dan Rather.
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Bill Mauldin: Status quo
“Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.” —Bill Mauldin.
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Jonas Salk: Patent the sun
‘Journalist Ed Murrow: “Who owns the patent on this vaccine?” Jonas Salk: “Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”‘ —Jonas Salk.
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Heinrich Heine: But is that an answer?
“So we keep asking, over and over,Until a handful of earthStops out mouths ―But is that an answer?”—Heinrich Heine.
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Emily Post: Manners
“Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.” —Emily Post.
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Epicetus: Only the educated can be free
“We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say the only the educated can be free.” —Epictetus.
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John Cleese: Creative workers
“If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.” —John Cleese.
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Noel Coward: Motivation
“Your Motivation? Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get with it!’—Noel Coward.
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Hilary Clinton: Dignity
“Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.” —Hilary Clinton.
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Bruce Feiler: Happy families
“When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship. This skill is particularly important for children, whose identity tends to get locked in during adolescence.” —Bruce Feiler.
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Samuel Butler: Credulous mind
“A credulous mind . . . finds most delight in believing strange things, and the stranger they are the easier they pass with him; but never regards those that are plain and feasible, for every man can believe such.” — Samuel Butler.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Memories
“True memories seemed like phantoms, while false memories were so convincing they replaced reality.” —Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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Charles Darwin: Ignorance
“[I]gnorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.” ― Charles Darwin.
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Sarah Bernhardt: Fine bodily proportions
“The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.” —Sarah Bernhardt.
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Martin Gardner: History of boneheads
“Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals, the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great creative scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned if at all.” —Martin Gardner.
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Thomas Henry Huxley: Corroborative evidence
“Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-interest, his passions, his prejudices, nor the love of the marvelous is strongly concerned. When they are involved, require corroborative evidence in exact proportion to the contravention of probability by the thing testified.” — Thomas Henry Huxley.
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Leonardo da Vinci: Practice and sound theory
“Those who are in love with practice without theoretical knowledge are like the sailor who goes onto a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whither he is going…. Practice must always be founded on sound theory.” —Leonardo da Vinci.
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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.
