Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Tammy Wynette: Lifetime defending it
“I spent 15 minutes writing ‘Stand by Your Man,’ and a lifetime defending it.” —Tammy Wynette.
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Richard Feynman: Explore the world
“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.” —Richard Feynman.
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Judith Jamison: Indelible memory
“People don’t remember me for how high my legs went, even though they went up very high, and how many pirouettes I did. They don’t remember me for that. They remember me and any other dancer because something touched them inside. It’s an indelible memory on the heart and in the mind.” —Judith Jamison.
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Warren Buffett: How little competition
“In terms of generally advancing within organizations, I think you’d be surprised at how little competition you really have if you start thinking like you would if you were an owner of the place, and working like you would if you were an owner of the place, and pretty soon you may be running something.”…
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Glenda Jackson: Love life
“When I have to cry, I think about my love life. When I have to laugh, I think about my love life.” —Glenda Jackson.
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Edward Gibbon: Modes of worship
“The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher, as equally false, and by the magistrate, as equally useful.” —Edward Gibbon.
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Rabindranath Tagore: Lamp of mind
“On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To break the lamp of any people is to deprive it of its rightful place in the world festival.” —Rabindranath Tagore.
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Archibald MacLeish: Dissenter
“The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.” —Archibald MacLeish.
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Cicero: Persuade me
“If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.”— Cicero, Roman Statesman (106 BC)
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Rudolph Valentino: Infinitely worse
“To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.” —Rudolph Valentino.
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Michael Lewis: Happiest person anybody knows
“As I’ve gotten older…I could not help but notice the effect on people of the stories they told about themselves. If you listen to people—if you just sit and listen—you’ll find that there are patterns in the way they talk about themselves. There’s the kind of person who’s always the victim in any story that…
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William Kingdon Clifford: Wrong always
“It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.” —William Kingdon Clifford.
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Thomas Huxley: Learn
“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” —Thomas Huxley.
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Joseph Addison: Three grand essentials
“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” —Joseph Addison.
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Dr. Benjamin Spock: Automobile terms
“In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.” —Dr. Benjamin Spock
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Samuel Johnson: Friendship
“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is, at last, a drop which makes it run over; So in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.” — Samuel Johnson.
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Jack Paar: More fun
“Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say, and I notice it’s the rich people who keep saying it.” —Jack Paar.
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Warren Buffett: Compensation systems
“We pay some very big money. We have managers that have made and will make in the tens of millions annually, and we have managers that, when we suffer, they suffer. But you’ve got to treat people fairly. Even though they don’t need the money, everybody wants to be treated fairly. And so the rationale…
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Simon Sinek: Genius and impact
“Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action.” —Simon Sinek.
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George Allen Sr: Ability
“Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we dont use that ability as best we can.” —George Allen, Sr.
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Simon Sinek: Giving mindset
“The giving mindset is when we happily step to the side as we walk toward someone on the sidewalk instead of expecting them to move. If everyone had a giving mindset, we’d all get to where we’re going a little faster.” —Simon Sinek.
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Terry Pratchett: Brief patterns
“People don’t alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.” —Terry Pratchett.
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Ulysses S Grant: He who continues
“In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.” —Ulysses S. Grant
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Ma Rainey: Way of understanding life
“They hear it come out, but they don’t know how it got there. They don’t understand that’s life’s way of talking. You don’t sing to feel better. You sing ’cause that’s a way of understanding life.” —Ma Rainey.
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J E Russo: Several frames
“When a decision makes sense through several frames, it’s probably a good decision.” —J. E. Russo.
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Benjamin Graham: No longer dependable measurement
“Unfortunately in this kind of work, where you are trying to determine relationships based upon past behavior, the almost invariable experience is that by the time you have had a long enough period to give you sufficient confidence in your form of measurement, just then new conditions supersede and the measurement is no longer dependable…
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Hank Azaria: Getting over someone
“Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that’s only expedited by Out of sight, out of mind. But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It’s a high-class problem, but…
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Carl Jung: Comprehensible darkness
“Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.” —Carl Jung.
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Robert Penn Warren: Terribly sensitive people
“Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.” —Robert Penn Warren.
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Asha Jaffar: Great revealer
“The coronavirus has been anything but a great equalizer. It’s been the great revealer, pulling the curtain back on the class divide and exposing how deeply unequal this country is.” —Asha Jaffar.
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William Shakespeare: Man, proud man
“But man, proud man, / Drest in a little brief authority, / Most ignorant of what he’s most assured, / His glassy essence, like an angry ape, / Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven / As make the angels weep.” —William Shakespeare.
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Ken Auletta: Battery without a device
“Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device.” —Ken Auletta.
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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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Madame De Stael: Voice of conscience
“The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.” —Madame De Stael.
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Charlotte Rae: Bye-bye
“You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!… but if it doesn’t hit with the public in two minutes, its bye-bye.” —Charlotte Rae.
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Norman Parkinson: Lotion of the heart
“The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin’s bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart.” —Norman Parkinson.
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Simon Sinek: Optimists
“All great leaders are optimists. To inspire necessarily requires a positive outlook.” —Simon Sinek.
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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik: Breath of kindness
“Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath…
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Sophia Amoruso: Creativity and business acumen
“Creativity and business acumen don’t always go hand in hand.” —Sophia Amoruso.
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Charles Darwin: Ignorance
“Ignorance more often begets confidence than knowledge.” — Charles Darwin.
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Richard Feynman: To know something
“I have the advantage of having found out how hard it is to get to really know something. How careful you have to be about checking your experiments. How easy it is to make mistakes and fool yourself. I know what it means to know something.” — Richard Feynman.
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Fisher Ames: Volcano
“A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.” —Fisher Ames.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Capital mistake
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.“― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Jerry Colonna: Drama of being human
“The drama of being human is great and complicated. The pathless path is pockmarked with pain and suffering. But seen from the vantage point that all steps are purposeful, all of it seems worthwhile – a glorious, life-giving retort to those who would question our worthiness and lovability.” —Jerry Colonna.
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Alexandra Adornetto: Built-in entertainment system
“Imagination makes us aware of limitless possibilities. How many of us haven’t pondered the concept of infinity or imagined the possibility of time travel? In one of her poems, Emily Bronte likens imagination to a constant companion, but I prefer to think of it as a built-in entertainment system.” —Alexandra Adornetto.
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Nick Hornby: Worry about what kids listen to
“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos, we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands – literally thousands – of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.” —Nick Hornby.
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Peter Ustinov: Prison of our mind
“Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our one duty is to furnish it well.” —Peter Ustinov.
