Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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Simon Sinek: Better leaders
“True leaders do not work to do better than anyone else, they work to do better than themselves. And that’s what makes them better leaders.” —Simon Sinek.
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Stendhal: Love for both of us
“If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.” —Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle).
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Simon Sinek: Failure and fear
“The only ones who fear failure are those who have never tasted it.” —Simon Sinek.
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Francis Bacon: Friend of ours
“Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.” —Francis Bacon.
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Lord Byron: Nature more
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more.”—Lord Byron.
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Christian Dior: Woman’s perfume
“A woman’s perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.”—Christian Dior.
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Simon Sinek: Large, unstable organizations
“When the incentives offered prioritize growth over stability, we successfully build large, unstable organizations.”—Simon Sinek.
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Federico Fellini: All art is autobiographical
“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.”—Federico Fellini.
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Robert E Lee: Never do a wrong thing
“Never do a wrong thing to make a friend—or to keep one.”—Robert E Lee.
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Oliver Hardy: Full of Laurel and Hardys
“The world is full of Laurel and Hardys. I saw them all the time as a boy at my mother’s hotel. There’s always the dumb, dumb guy, who never has anything bad happen to him, and the smart guy who’s even dumber than the dumb guy, only he doesn’t know it.”—Oliver Hardy.
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Jill Tarter: Limited human standards
“Life has evolved to thrive in environments that are extreme only by our limited human standards: in the boiling battery acid of Yellowstone hot springs, in the cracks of permanent ice sheets, in the cooling waters of nuclear reactors, miles beneath the Earth’s crust, in pure salt crystals, and inside the rocks of the dry…
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Gamal Abdel Nasser: Force
“What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.”—Gamal Abdel Nasser.
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Simon Sinek: Personal growth
“The ultimate value of personal growth work is not to feel better about ourselves but to contribute to how those around us feel about themselves.” —Simon Sinek.
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Marcus Antonius: Anger and grief
“Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.”—Marcus Antonius.
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Geoffrey Canada: Tooth and nail
“Convincing people to give your way a try will work if you neutralize – and sometimes you have to cauterize – the ones who really are against change. They’re the kind of person who, if you tell them its raining outside, they’ll fight you tooth and nail.”—Geoffrey Canada.
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Orlando Bloom: Balance
“Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.”—Orlando Bloom.
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Emile Lahoud: Democracy, good governance and modernity
“Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country.”—Emile Lahoud.
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John Grimond: Desophistication
‘Most writers I know have tales to tell of being mangled by editors and mauled by fact-checkers, and naturally it is the flagrant instances they choose to single out – absurdities, outright distortions of meaning, glaring errors. But most of the damage done is a good deal less spectacular. It consists of small changes (usually…
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George Orwell: Scrupulous writer
“A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself at least four questions, thus: What am I trying to say? What words will express it? What image or idiom will make it clearer? Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? And he will probably ask himself two more: Could I…
