Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Francoise d’Aubigne de Maintenon: Solace those of others
“The true way to soften one’s troubles is to solace those of others.”—Francoise d’Aubigne de Maintenon.
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Ellen Ullman: Relationship with error
“To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There’s no getting around it. You either make your accommodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable.”—Ellen Ullman.
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Eugene Ionesco: Ideologies
“Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.”—Eugene Ionesco, playwright.
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Lewis Thomas: When assembled in masses
“We haven’t yet learned how to stay human when assembled in masses.”—Lewis Thomas.
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Bruce Paltrow: Homogenized
“Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost.”—Bruce Paltrow.
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Karl Benz: Lunatic and death wish
“My first customer was a lunatic. My second had a death wish.”—Karl Benz.
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Arundhati Roy: Pity the nation
“Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.”—Arundhati Roy.
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Franklin Pierce: No calculation
“In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.”—Franklin Pierce.
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Simon Sinek: Delicate blend
“Pure pragmatism cannot imagine a bold future. Pure idealism cannot get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives innovation.”—Simon Sinek.
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Voltaire: Work
“Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.”—Voltaire, philosopher (21 Nov 1694-1778).
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Never ask anyone
“Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have—or don’t have—in their portfolio.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Goldie Hawn: Enjoy the moment more fully
“If we can just let go and trust that things will work out they way they’re supposed to, without trying to control the outcome, then we can begin to enjoy the moment more fully. The joy of the freedom it brings becomes more pleasurable than the experience itself.”—Goldie Hawn.
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Nadine Gordimer: Hunger for truth
“The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”—Nadine Gordimer, novelist, Nobel laureate (20 Nov 1923-2014).
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Robert F Kennedy: One-fifth
“One-fifth of the people are against everything all of the time.”—Robert F Kennedy.
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G K Chesterton: Right wrongly
“If a man uses a right wrongly, the answer is for everybody to use their rights rightly; not to give up all their rights on chance of curing the wrong.” —G K Chesterton.
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Simon Sinek: Optimists
“Great leaders are optimists. This is not the same as being positive. Positive is finding the light in the now; optimists see the light always.”—Simon Sinek.
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Peter Drucker: Three times as fast
“Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.”—Peter Drucker, management consultant, professor and writer.
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Meg Ryan: Not immaculate idols
“It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.”—Meg Ryan.
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Elizabeth Perkins: Kill the clone
“I would kill the clone. That would be my first response.”—Elizabeth Perkins.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Busy
‘Someone who says “I am busy” is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.’ —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Emma Lowery Williams: Life
“We can not tell what happiness We might on earth possess If in singleness of heart We would strive to act a proper part. ‘Tis true we see the effects of sin All without and all within. We long may live a life in vain, Much good possess, but still complain. We may appear to…
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Charlie Munger: ‘We don’t do startups’
“We could make a lot of decisions about a lot of things very fast and very easily. And we’re unusual in that respect. And the reason we’re able to do that is there’s such an enormous other lot of things that we won’t allow ourselves to think about at all. It’s just that simple. I…
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Dan Rockwell: Hit the highlights
“Realize that others don’t love the sound of your voice as much as you. Hit the highlights. No one cares about the backstory except you. Some detail adds color. Too much is a snoozer. Judge your message harshly. Do you have anything worth saying?” —Dan Rockwell.
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Dan Rockwell: How are you saying yes?
“It doesn’t matter how many weeds you pull if you haven’t planted seeds. It’s important to stop negative behaviors, but successful leadership requires positive action. How are you saying yes?”—Dan Rockwell.
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Charlie Munger: Your whole civilization deteriorates
“I would say that I like a certain amount of social intervention that takes some of the inequality out of results in capitalism. But I hate, with a passion, rewarding anything that can be easily faked. Because I think then people lie, and lying works, and the lying spreads. And I think your whole civilization…
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Respect
“If you have earned your self-respect, respect by others is a luxury; if you haven’t, respect by others is a necessity.”—Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Huge elephant
“The sucker overestimates the value of secret information when the important stuff is that huge elephant in front if us all.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Simon Sinek: Excitement and fulfillment
“Excitement comes from the achievement. Fulfillment comes from the journey that gets us there.”—Simon Sinek.
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P J O’Rourke: Source of our troubles
“No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power.”—P.J. O’Rourke, writer.
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Stefano Gabbana: Work very hard behind the scenes
“You have to work very hard behind the scenes, to make a message clear enough for a lot of people to understand.”—Stefano Gabbana.
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Antonio Porchia: Given and received
“I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.” —Antonio Porchia, poet.
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G K Chesterton: Society in decay
“A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense has really become very uncommon. Straightforward ideas appear strange or unfamiliar, and any thought that does not follow the conventional curve or twist, is supposed to be a sort of joke.” ——G. K. Chesterton.
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Steve Buscemi: Junk mail
“My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail.”—Steve Buscemi.
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Anis Mojgani: Hon or We have both traveled from the other side of some hill, one side of which we may wish we could forget
“Love me stupid. Love me terrible. And when I am no mountain but rather a monsoon of imperfect thunder love me. When I am blue in my face from swallowing myself yet wearing my best heart even if my best heart is a century of hunger an angry mule breathing hard or perhaps even hopeful.…
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Auguste Rodin: Never anything ugly in nature
“To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.”—Auguste Rodin, sculptor.
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Warren Buffett: Financially fat
“We really like things that you don’t have to carry out to three decimal places, you know. If you have to carry it out to three decimal places, it’s not a good idea…. It’s like if somebody walked in the door here and they weighed somewhere between 300 and 350 pounds. I might not know…
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Nadia Comaneci: Gravitate
“I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.”—Nadia Comaneci.
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Leonardo DiCaprio: Brothers
“Brothers don’t necessarily have to say anything to each other — they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.”—Leonardo DiCaprio, actor and director.
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Margaret Wheatley: Confusing control with order
“We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order. This is no surprise, given that for most of its written history, leadership has been defined in terms of its control functions.”—Margaret Wheatley.
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Paracelsus: Four pillars
“Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.”—Paracelsus.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Infinite precision
“We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you’d need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don’t have anything like that.”—Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Shane Parrish: When no one is watching
“While visible results get the attention, the invisible work deserves the credit. The seeds of exceptional results are planted when no one is watching.”—Shane Parrish.
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Dan Rockwell: Help others improve
“I don’t want you on my team unless you’re committed to help others improve.”—Dan Rockwell.
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Mrs. Minot Carter: Raindrops
“Have you heard the raindropsOn a field of corn,Pattering ov’r the green leavesDusty and forlorn?Did you ever fancyThey were little feetHurrying out with waterThirsty ones to meet? Have you seen the raindropsFalling on the lake?How they flash and sparkleTiny splashes make.Did you ever fancyThey were diamonds rareScattered by an aeroplaneSailing through the air?” Source URL:…
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Paul Plesk: Emergent property
“It is more helpful to think like a farmer, than an engineer or an architect in designing [complex systems]… Engineers and architects need to design every detail of the system. This approach is possible because the responses of the componens are mechanical and therefore predictable. In contrast, the farmer knows that he or she can…
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Richard Burton: Be the best rubbish
“If you’re going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.”—Richard Burton.
