Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Carl Schurz: Loyalty to resist, treason to submit
“We have come to a point where it is loyalty to resist, and treason to submit.” —Carl Schurz.
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Pope Leo XIII: Nature to man
“It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man.” —Pope Leo XIII.
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Dan Rockwell: Correct an arrogant manager
“Correct an arrogant manager and you’ll likely be insulted for your trouble. Weak, arrogant leaders feel offended when you disagree with them. Strong, humble leaders explore dissent.” —Dan Rockwell.
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G K Chesterton: Humor
“Humor is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game. It is meant to remind us human beings that we have things about us as ungainly and ludicrous as the nose of the elephant or the neck of the…
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Simon Sinek: Trust
“Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear.” —Simon Sinek.
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Michel De Montaigne: Noise and command
“He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.” —Michel De Montaigne.
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Howard Marks: Negatives accumulate
“One of the most notable behavioral traits among investors is their tendency to overlook negatives or understate their significance for a while, and then eventually to capitulate and overreact to them on the downside. I attribute a lot of this to psychological failings and the rest to the inability to appreciate the true significance of…
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Ralph Nader: Solar energy
“The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.” —Ralph Nader.
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault: Hostages to prejudice
“If people are informed they will do the right thing. Its when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.” —Charlayne Hunter-Gault.
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Victor Hugo: Great government
“Knowing exactly how much of the future can be introduced into the present is the secret of great government.” —-Victor Hugo.
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Sharon Van Etten: Negative energy
“I hate putting negative energy out into the world. But it’s either inside or out. I mean, it’s either get an ulcer or have a fight.” —Sharon Van Etten.
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John Leonard: Memory of a small boldness
“In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.” —John Leonard.
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Meher Baba: What helping others can do
“No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.” —Meher Baba.
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Samuel Lover: Scratching of a pen
“When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.” —-Samuel Lover.
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Clayton Christensen: Immediate gratification
“If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you’ll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification. If you look at personal lives through that lens, you’ll see the same stunning and sobering pattern: people allocating fewer and fewer resources to the things they would have once said mattered most.”…
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Bo Schembechler: Not making a decision
“Not making a decision is the worst thing you can do. So long as you feel you made the right decision based on the information you had at that time, there’s no need to fret about it. If it fails, you’ll know what to do next time.” – Bo Schembechler.
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Steve Jobs: Already naked
“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. “ —Steve Jobs.
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John Sandford: Nice piece of writing
“Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you’ll find it is a very nice piece of writing.” —John Sandford.
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Valery Legasov: What is the cost of lies?
“To be a scientist is to be naive. We are so focused on our search for truth, we fail to consider how few actually want us to find it. But it is always there, whether we see it or not, whether we choose to or not. The truth doesn’t care about our needs or wants. It…
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Tim Zonca: Plumbing
“If your goal is to grow your business by delivering an application or service, dealing with the plumbing of an application is not what your users want to pay for.” —-Tim Zonca.
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Seth Klarman: Conservatism
“Conservatism may cause investors to refrain from making some investments that in hindsight would have been successful, but it will also prevent some sizable losses that would ensue from adopting less conservative business valuations.” —Seth Klarman
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W H Auden: What all schoolchildren learn
“I and the public know / What all schoolchildren learn, / Those to whom evil is done / Do evil in return.” —W.H. Auden.
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David Foster Wallace: Familiarity
“It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most familiarity is meditated and delusive. “ —David Foster Wallace.
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Larry Tesler: Complexity
“You cannot reduce the complexity of a given task beyond a certain point. Once you’ve reached that point, you can only shift the burden around.” —Larry Tesler.
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Ansel Adams: Horrifying
“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.” —Ansel Adams.
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Larry Tesler: Irreducible complexity
“Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is who will have to deal with it, the user or the developer (programmer or engineer).” —Larry Tesler.
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Willie Garson: Sidekick
“TV deals in very broad strokes. Like, Oh, that’s my dumb friend, or, That’s my funny friend. A true best friend, a sidekick, has to be a little deeper then that. You have to feel like there’s nothing either character won’t do. That someone really, really has their back.” —Willie Garson.
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Carson McCullers: Improvisation of human existence
“There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.” —Carson McCullers, writer (19 Feb 1917-1967).
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David Garrick: Imagination
“You are indebted to your imagination for three-fourths of your importance.” —David Garrick.
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Simon Sinek: Giving mindset
“Those with a giving mindset take some comfort knowing that even though they didn’t get exactly what they wanted, they helped someone else get exactly what they wanted.” —Simon Sinek.
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Jack Gilbert: Farmer of poetry
“It’s not a business with me. … I’m not a professional of poetry; I’m a farmer of poetry.” —Jack Gilbert, poet.
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Yoko Ono: We are all dreamers
“We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.” —Yoko Ono.
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Yoko Ono: Seasons
“Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.” —Yoko Ono
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Caroline Flack: Being thin
“When I went to college, being thin was seen as good, so everyone told me I was normal. Then you get older, and you start putting on weight, and you’re like, ‘Oh God, I used to be really small.’ Then you get into the world of media, and you just feel the pressure massively.” —Caroline…
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Ice T: Sarcastic shit “Never mumble some sarcastic shit to somebody who can obviously fuck you up.” —Ice T.
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Dennis Prager: Feminism
“Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home.” —Dennis Prager.
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George Jean Nathan: Patriotism
“Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.” — George Jean Nathan.
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Kenneth B Collins: Tightest controls
“Businesses exert the tightest controls over the easiest thing to control, rather than the most critical.” —Kenneth B.Collins.
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William Marks: Schmuck
“Stand on any street corner in any city of the world. Close your eyes. Stick out your arms. You will touch a schmuck.” —William Marks.
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Paul Obis: Same ideas
“Someone else probably has the same ideas so a) get started, b) plan to do it better.” —Paul Obis.
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Professor Leader W Matsch: Fool in high station
“A fool in a high station is like a man on the top of a high mountain: everything appears small to him and he appears small to everybody.” —Professor Leader W. Matsch.
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James Russell Lowell: Dreadfully like other people
“Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this: that you are dreadfully like other people.” —James Russell Lowell.
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Dewar’s: Plenty of knots
“If you can’t tie good knots, tie plenty of them.” —From a Dewar’s scotch ad.
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David Allen: Do it now
“If it takes less than two minutes, then do it now.”—David Allen,Author – Getting things done.
