Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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…
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Warren Buffett: Creative destruction
“If the business changes in a material way, you’d better change your business model. Or somebody else will. And then you’ll even have more changes facing you…. Capitalism is creative destruction. And sometimes, you’re on the short end of that.” –Warren Buffett.
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Sam Harris: No more ridiculous
“Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded by him. Imagine a future in which millions of our descendants murder each other over rival interpretations of Star Wars or Windows 98. Could anything — anything — be more…
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Tom Lehrer: Sewer
“Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.” —Tom Lehrer.
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Patricia Arquette: Strains
“Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn’t be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he’s the person I want to strain with.” —Patricia Arquette.
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Melvin Calvin: Barren and negative
“For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative.” —Melvin Calvin.
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Billie Holiday: Something to eat and a little love
“You’ve got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body’s sermon on how to behave.” —Billie Holiday.
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Gabriela Mistral: The child cannot wait
“Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.” —Gabriela Mistral.
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Nicolas de Chamfort: Conscience
“Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.” —Nicolas de Chamfort.
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Michele Bachmann: Holy Spirit
“The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. Thats why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up Scripture and make it come alive to us, to open our understanding. He left his Spirit with us until we join him in Heaven.” —Michele Bachmann.
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Gloria Macapagal Arroyo: Power of one
“The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.” —Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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Margaret Oliphant: Next thing to indispensable
“To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.” —Margaret Oliphant.
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Simon Sinek: Confidence and courage
“So much of starting a business or affecting change is the confidence and courage to simply try.” —Simon Sinek.
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Marlon Brando: More sensitive you are
“The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel to much.” —Marlon Brando.
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Edward Everett Hale: Three kinds of trouble
“Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds — all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.” —Edward Everett Hale.
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Serge Gainsbourg: Ugliness
“Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.” —Serge Gainsbourg.
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Brené Brown: Criticism of my work
“If you are not in the arena getting your ass kicked, I’m not interested in your criticism of my work.” — Brené Brown.
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Yuval Noah Harari: Questions you cannot answer
“Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot question.” —Yuval Noah Harari.
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Charlie Munger: What’s good about your situation
“I think it’s hugely a mistake to think only about your probable misfortunes. You should also think about what’s good about your situation.” ––Charlie Munger
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Leo Tolstoy: Now!
“There is only one time that is important – Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.” — Leo Tolstoy, What Men Live By and Other Tales.
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Matt Lanter: Stress of the day
“I want someone that I can have fun with and laugh with. I love to laugh, and I’m really sarcastic, so it’s important that she can take a joke. I think if you are going to be with someone for a while, you really need someone you can let loose with and let go of…
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James Madison: Zeal for different opinions
“The zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points…have in turn divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to cooperate for their common good.” – James Madison.
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Nikolai Gogol: Funny story
“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.” —-Nikolai Gogol.
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John Tyler: Popularity
“Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette – the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.” John Tyler
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Maxim Gorky: Happiness
“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.” —Maxim Gorky.
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Cyrus Vance: Against their interests
“You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it’s against their interests to keep on disagreeing or fighting.” —Cyrus Vance
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Viktor Frankl: Last piece of bread
“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to…
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David Suzuki: Skepticism
“Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.” —David Suzuki.
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Fannie Farmer: Principles of diet
“I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of ones education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.” —Fannie Farmer
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Erich Fromm: Revolutionary
“The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.” —Erich Fromm.
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Caroline Sheridan Norton: Serve God well
“They serve God well, who serve his creatures.” —Caroline Sheridan Norton
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Kenny Rogers: Being nice
“People will clap to be nice. They will not laugh to be nice.” —–Kenny Rogers.
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Kenny Rogers: Growing older
“Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.” —Kenny Rogers.
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Kenny Rogers: Trade off
“There is a trade off – as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.” —Kenny Rogers.
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Freema Agyeman: Things aren’t getting done quickly
“I swing between procrastination and being really thorough so either way things aren’t getting done quickly.” —Freema Agyeman
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Dinos Christianopoulos: Better slaughtering conditions
“The sheep have gone on strike / they are demanding better slaughtering conditions.” —Dinos Christianopoulos.
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Carl Jung: Fate
“When an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside as fate.” – Carl Jung
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Ed Parker: Intelligent man
“The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.” —Ed Parker
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Phil Jackson: Victory is sweet
“Yes, victory is sweet, but it doesn’t necessarily make life any easier the next season or even the next day.” – Phil Jackson.
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Grover Cleveland: Government and people
“Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.” —Grover Cleveland.
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Keith O’Brien: Same-sex marriage “Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father.” —Keith O’Brien.
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Pico Iyer: Junk food of cable TV
“The best way to feel empty and over-full at once is to devour the junk food of cable TV and other news sources. As with McDonald’s, you go in, enjoy a hearty meal and then wonder, when you come out, why you’re feeling even hungrier and less satisfied than before.” —Pico Iyer.
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr: Morality and behaviour
“Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated.” —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
