Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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
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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.
