Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Margaret Halsey: Crucial disadvantage
“The crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness, and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o’clock.” —Margaret Halsey.
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Russell Baker: Insists on it
“Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.” —Russell Baker.
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Rozanne Weissman: Approval
“Those whose approval you seek the most give you the least.” —Rozanne Weissman.
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Jim Amis: Don’t trust yourself too completely
“You can’t believe anyone but yourself, and don’t trust yourself too completely.” —Jim Amis.
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Patrick J Allen: Inversely proportional
“The strength of one’s opinion on any matter in controversy is inversely proportional to the amount of knowledge that the person has on that subject.” —Patrick J. Allen.
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Mark Albrecht: Troublesome correspondence
“Troublesome correspondence that is postponed long enough will eventually become irrelevant.” —Mark Albrecht.
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Gustavo N Agrait: Rumors
“A rumor will travel fastest to the place where it will cause the most harm.” —Gustavo N. Agrait.
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James Abourezk: Allies will do you in
“Don’t worry about your enemies; it’s your allies who will do you in.” —James Abourezk.
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C Northcote Parkinson: Work expands
“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” —C. Northcote Parkinson.
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Elliot Zais: Capacity to blush
“As long as you retain the capacity to blush, your immortal soul is in no particular danger.” —Elliot Zais.
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Leonard Lauder: Experience
“When a person with experience meets the person with money, the person with the experience will get the money. And the person with the money will get the experience.” —Leonard Lauder.
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A H Weiler: Nothing is impossible
“Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself.” —A.H. Weiler.
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Peter Gabriel: Healthy
“Artists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy.” —Peter Gabriel.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Advice
“If you want people to like you, do not give them advice. Ask them for advice.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Anna Pavlova: Work transforms
“God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.” —Anna Pavlova.
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Tammy Baldwin: Scientific process
“In my grandfather’s lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.” —Tammy Baldwin.
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Mira Sorvino: Worst betrayal
“The worst betrayal is from those you never thought could betray you.” —Mira Sorvino.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Trust
“Trust those who are greedy for money a thousand times more than those who are greedy for credentials.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Bob Iger: Optimism
“What I’ve really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.” —Bob Iger
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Ashton Kutcher: Can’t sit still
“I don’t believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can’t sit still.”—Ashton Kutcher.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Idiots
‘Behavioral economics can be summarized as follows: “humans are idiots”. My message: “Maybe, but behavioral economists are most certainly idiots”.‘ —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Alice Walker: Thank you
“Thank you is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.” —Alice Walker.
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Howard Marks: Cyclicality
“The basic reason for the cyclicality in our world is the involvement of humans. Mechanical things can go in a straight line. Time moves ahead continuously. So can a machine when it’s adequately powered. But processes in fields like history and economics involve people, and when people are involved, the results are variable and cyclical.”—Howard…
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Jules Verne: Wear out by being read
“We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.” —Jules Verne.
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Simon Sinek: Expend energy
“Instead of expending energy to fit into the group, it’s better to expend energy to find the group in which we fit.” —Simon Sinek.
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Michael Pollan: Schizoid quality
“There’s a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us pause to consider the miserable life of the pig — an animal easily as intelligent as a dog — that becomes the…
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Christopher Marlowe: Where both deliberate
“Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov’d, that lov’d not at first sight?” —Christopher Marlowe.
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Simon Sinek: Marketing the solution
“Greatness doesn’t start with a market opportunity, it starts with a problem that needs solving. The opportunity comes from marketing the solution.”—Simon Sinek.
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Charlotte Rampling: Just words
“If words don’t have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they’re just words.”—Charlotte Rampling.
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Hartley Shawcross: There comes a point
“There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.” —Hartley Shawcross.
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Nicole Wallace: Life in politics
“A life in politics is for people who know themselves and know where their own line is between loyalty and honesty.”—Nicole Wallace.
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Michael Watson: Getting flamed
“Getting flamed for asking dumb questions on a public mailing list is all part of growing up and being a man/woman.” — Michael Watson (in a discussion on whether answers on R-help should be more polite) R-help (December 2004).
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Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn: Starting principle
“Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure.”—Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn.
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Abba Eban: Flat earth and Israel
“If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.”—Abba Eban.
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Cindy Gallop: Low tolerance
“I have a low tolerance for people who complain about things but never do anything to change them. This led me to conclude that the single largest pool of untapped natural resources in this world is human good intentions that are never translated into actions.”—Cindy Gallop.
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Christian Bale: Embarrassing yourself endlessly
“But I learned that theres a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there’s not much else that can really get to ya.”—Christian Bale.
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Anton Chekhov: Hundred senses
“Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies only the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive.”—Anton Chekhov.
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Colette: Destroy most of it
“Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.” —Colette.
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Alan Alda: Assumptions
“Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.”—Alan Alda.
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Keith Olbermann: Corporation
“The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability a bunch of people. They form together in a massive ID and they do whatever they want.”—Keith Olbermann.
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Vicki Baum: Finest arts of insincerity
“Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings.”—Vicki Baum.
