Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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Margrethe II of Denmark: Convenience or conviction
“We are being challenged by Islam these years. There are some things for which one should display no tolerance. And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction.” –Margrethe II of Denmark.
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Charles Evans Hughes: Privilege to be free
“When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.” —Charles Evans Hughes.
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Dwight D Eisenhower: Muslim genius
“Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements…the Muslim genius has added much to the culture of all peoples.” —Dwight D Eisenhower.
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Eden Ahbez: Lovers and Haters
“Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it’s not an issue of black and white, it’s an issue of Lovers and Haters.” —Eden Ahbez.
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Arnold Toynbee: Civilizations in decline
“Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.” —Arnold Toynbee.
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Vladimir Nabokov: Brief crack of light
“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.” — Vladimir Nabokov.
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Sarah Michelle Gellar: James Bond
“I don’t understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?” —-Sarah Michelle Gellar
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Samuel Beckett: Kept our appointment
“We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?” —Samuel Beckett.
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Dwight D Eisenhower: Integrity
“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.” —Dwight D Eisenhower.
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Dwight D Eisenhower: People you don’t like
“Never spend a moment thinking about people you don’t like.” —Dwight D Eisenhower.
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Dwight D Eisenhower: Middle of the road
“People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the…
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Dwight D Eisenhower: Good teacher
“A good teacher is one who can understand those who are not very good at explaining, and explain to those who are not very good at understanding.” —Dwight D Eisenhower.
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Frederick Chopin: Heart and soul of man
“Bach is an astronomer, discovering the marvelous stars, Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the heart and soul of man.” — Frederick Chopin.
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Tiny Tim: I’d love to see Christ come back
“I’d love to see Christ come back to crush the spirit of hate and make men put down their guns. I’d also like just one more hit single.” —Tiny Tim.
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Simon Sinek: Achieve almost anything
“A small team, committed to a cause bigger than themselves, can achieve absolutely anything.” —Simon Sinek.
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William Booth: So incorrigibly lazy
“There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work, so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterably dishonest that theft is to them a master passion.” —William Booth.
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Benjamin Franklin: All born ignorant
“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. “ —Benjamin Franklin.
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Charlie Munger: Worldly business
“In a world where you sometimes have to amputate a limb to stay alive, you can’t expect that every business can stay exactly as it is.” ––Charlie Munger.
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Warren Buffett: Close down whole plants
“Yeah, some are doing that, where you give up hours. But a lot of operations don’t lend themselves to that very well, either. So…in other cases, you basically have to close down whole plants. That’s just the nature of it. You really can’t operate every plant at 50 percent and have it work as effectively…
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Charlie Munger: Shared-hardship model
“Some of our businesses have a shared-hardship model, where they don’t layoff, at least not yet. And the businesses with that model tend to be very strongly placed economically. So I guess it shows that Benjamin Franklin was right, when he said, ‘It’s hard for an empty sack to stand upright.’ So we’re all over…
