Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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James Madison: Same authority
“Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects?” —James Madison.
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Jerry Jeff Walker: Enough
“The only way to know how much is enough, is to do too much, and then back up.” —Jerry Jeff Walker
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C S Lewis: To make them worth it
“Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.” —C S Lewis.
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Isaac Asimov: Inhumanity of the computer
“Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.” — Isaac Asimov
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William Lamb Melbourne: Unpopular to popular
“It is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular is easy. . . but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.” —William Lamb Melbourne
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Warren Buffett: Human potential
“There’s always a lot of things wrong with the world. Unfortunately, it’s the only world we’ve got. So we live with it, and we deal with it. But the beauty of it is this system works very well. I don’t have the faintest idea what’s going to happen in business or markets in the next…
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Dan Rockwell: Ego
“Ego protects itself by pushing responsibility on others. Taking responsibility is the courageous decision to take ownership without hiding behind others. Confront excuse-makers. Honor responsibility-takers.” —Dan Rockwell.
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Brian de Haaff: Hundred more
“If one customer is reporting a problem, assume there are a hundred more who did not report it. Never underestimate even the most trivial bug.” — Brian de Haaff.
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Marcus Aurelius: Don’t be all about business
“In your actions, don’t procrastinate. In your conversations, don’t confuse. In your thoughts, don’t wander. In your soul, don’t be passive or aggressive. In your life, don’t be all about business.” —Marcus Aurelius
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Emily Murphy: Courtship
“This is courtship all the world over – the man all tongue, the woman all ears.” —Emily Murphy.
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Grady Booch: Universal truth
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single developer in possession of a good idea must end up spending a tortuous amount of time setting up frameworks, repositories, and a continuous integration pipeline before writing a single line of code.” —Grady Booch.
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Mahmoud Darwish: She’s not a symbol
“Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She’s not a symbol.” —Mahmoud Darwish.
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Richard Steele: Attend to business
“It is the hardest thing in the world to be in love, and yet attend to business. A gentleman asked me this morning, ‘What news from Lisbon?’ and I answered, ‘She is exquisitely handsome.’” —-Richard Steele.
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Edward Albee: Extension of personality
“Your source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.” —Edward Albee.
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Douglas Adams: Opinions
“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others.” —Douglas Adams.
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Douglas Adams: Ingenuity of complete fools
“A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” —Douglas Adams.
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Dan Rockwell: Criticism versus coaching
“Criticism is about what was. Coaching is about what could be.” —Dan Rockwell.
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Parker J Palmer: Violence
“Violence is what we do when we don’t know what to do with our suffering.” —Parker J Palmer.
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Kate Sheppard: All that separates
“All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome.” —Kate Sheppard.
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Dan Rockwell: Details
“When you ignore details, you give detail-people the impression that details don’t matter. People with strengths you don’t have expand team potential. They are more important to the team than people who share your strengths.” —Dan Rockwell.
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Jim Valvano: He believed in me
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.” —Jim Valvano.
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Vita Sackville-West: Poets scorn
“Why should a poet pray thus? poets scorn / The boundaried love of country, being free / Of winds, and alien lands, and distances, / Vagabonds of the compass, wayfarers, / Pilgrims of thought.” —Vita Sackville-West.
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A G Lafley: Sum total
“A company’s value is the sum total of all of its interactions with consumers. Each interaction is an opportunity where the brand promise was either realized or not realized.” — A.G. Lafley.
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Grace Hopper: Fight that
“People have an enormous tendency to resist change. They love to say, ‘We’ve always done it this way.’ I try to fight that.” — Grace Hopper.
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Eben Alexander: Spirit
“Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn’t.” —Eben Alexander.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: General principle of antifragility
“The general principle of antifragility: it is much better to do things you cannot explain than explain things you cannot do.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Dan Rockwell: Be bold enough to interrupt
“Momma was wrong when she said don’t interrupt people. If someone is rude enough to hijack your meeting, you should be bold enough to interrupt. Don’t allow talkative participants to blab on and on. (It’s polite to interrupt rude people.)” —Dan Rockwell.
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Charlie Munger: Against human nature
“GEICO to me is very much like Costco. And one of the reasons it’s succeeded is that they really feel a holy duty to have a wonderful product at a very low price. A lot of people talk that game, but very few have it just right down under the body and soul of the…
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Charlie Munger: Seamless web of trust
“Our model is a seamless web of trust that’s deserved on both sides. That’s what we’re aiming for. The Hollywood model, where everyone has a contract, and no trust is deserved on either side, is not what we want at all.” ––Charlie Munger.
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Aidan Quinn: Fires of everyday life
“Really, most of us just focus on whats in front of us. Were too busy putting out the fires of everyday life.” —Aidan Quinn.
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Christopher Dawson: Protestantism, Liberalism and Communism
“Protestantism, Liberalism, and Communism are three successive stages by which our civilization has passed from Catholicism to complete secularism. The first eliminated the Church, the second eliminated Christianity, and the third eliminates the human soul.” —Christopher Dawson.
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Michael Eisner: Individual achievers
“Many people you think are individual achievers in fact have either a strong spousal partner over many years or a business partner who’s either in the background, not given enough publicity or less egocentric. “ —Michael Eisner.
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Ring Lardner: Family
“The family you come from isn’t as important as the family you’re going to have.” —Ring Lardner.
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G K Chesterton: Good intentions
“Only Calvinists can really believe that hell is paved with good intentions. That is exactly the one thing it cannot be paved with.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Cosmopolitans
‘The question is not so much “Are there foreigners in my country?” but “Are there cosmopolitans in my country, cosmopolitans who act in complete indifference to my country, and all other countries?”‘ —G K Chesterton.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Avert the standard assumption
“The first, and hardest, step to wisdom: avert the standard assumption that people know what they want.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Penn Jillette: Religion and science
“If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense. If all of science were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find a…
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Jack Welch: Moral obligation
“If you are a leader and you are a manager, shame on you if people don’t know where they stand. You have a moral obligation leading people’s lives, talking about their future and … telling them where they stand.” —Jack Welch.
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Julia Cameron: True nature
“When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature. All of us love. All of us do it more and more perfectly. The past has brought us both ashes and diamonds. In the present we find the flowers of what we’ve planted…
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Julia Cameron: Spirituality
“Spirituality can release blocks, lead you to ideas, and make your life artful. Sometimes when we pray for guidance, we’re guided in unexpected directions. We may want a lofty answer and we get the intuition to clean our bedroom. It can seem so humble and picky and that you don’t necessarily think of it spiritual…
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Ott Hurrle: Four brothers
“When you have four brothers, you learn how to fight, you learn how to lose, and you learn how to fight again.” —Ott Hurrle.
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Deborah Meaden: Workplace bullying
“Bullying never works ( never has) in the Workplace. Good people leave,nervous people stop contributing, the rest get their own back… however long that takes.” —Deborah Meaden.
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William Godwin: Truth
“If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.” —William Godwin.
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Dan Rockwell: Entitlement
“Better to think you are average and work hard than to think you’re above average and feel entitled. Entitlement is the end of development.” —Dan Rockwell
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Bill Bellichick: Strength of the wolf
“There is an old saying about the strength of the wolf is the pack, and I think there is a lot of truth to that. On a football team, it’s not the strength of the individual players, but it is the strength of the unit and how they all function together.” –– Bill Belichick.
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Joel Osteen: Reach your destiny
“You can’t be a people pleaser and reach your potential. People will try to squeeze you into what they’re used to, into what they think. Take advice, listen to counsel, but you may have to disappoint a few people to reach your destiny.” —Joel Osteen.
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Sir John Murray: Hope and courage
“Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.” —Sir John Murray.
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Seneca: Religion
“Religion is regarded by the ignorant as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.” —Seneca.
