Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Focus on process
“We favor the sensational and the extremely visible. This affects the way we judge heroes. There is little room in our consciousness for heroes who do not deliver visible resultsor those heroes who focus on process rather than results.”—-Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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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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Pablo Picasso: Artist and painter
“A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.”—Pablo Picasso, artist and sculptor (25 Oct 1881-1973).
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Warren Buffett: We love focus
“I love focused management. If you read the Coca-Cola annual report, you will not get the idea that Roberto Goizueta is thinking about a whole lot of things other than Coca-Cola. And I have seen that work time after time. And when they lose that focus — as, actually, did Coke and Gillette both, at…
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Kazim Ali: What new name
What New NameKazim Ali “What new name will you bear in a world governed by code and calculation What program will reveal the ratio between communal identities and the loss of the body You are not known or pronounced Your nonce nonchalance does not convince Your scores are neither high enough to qualify, nor deep…
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Simon Sinek: Clear vision of the future
“Before we can build the world we want to live in, we have to imagine it. Greatness starts with a clear vision of the future.”—Simon Sinek.
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Nickole Brown: Prayer to be still and know
Prayer to be Still and KnowNickole Brown “Lord, let my ears go secret agent, eacha microphone so hot it picks up thingssilent, reverbing even the hum of stoneclose to its eager, silver grill. Let my ears forgetyears trained to human chatterwired into every room, even those emptyexcept of me, each broadcast and jingletricking me into…
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Brenda Ueland: Inspiration
“Inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.”—Brenda Ueland, journalist, editor, and writer (24 Oct…
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Kalpana Chawla: No other campground
“This planet below you is our campsite, and you know of no other campground.”—Kalpana Chawla.
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Nathan McClain: The Sentence
The SentenceNathan McClain “begins with its subject,which is the sentence. Track the sentenceto find out what happens or how it will act. It isthe subject, after all. To track, meaning keep an eye on,which is synecdoche, part representing the wholeof a thing. One may track a package if he pleases.One may track a person, though…
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Emily Kimbrough: We all stumble
“Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.”—Emily Kimbrough, author and broadcaster.
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Thomas Payne: Administering medicine to the dead
“To argue to the person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.”—Thomas Payne.
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Simon Sinek: Cause bigger than themselves
“A small team, committed to a cause bigger than themselves, can achieve absolutely anything.”—Simon Sinek.
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Catherine Deneuve: Pinned on a wall
“A star remains pinned on a wall in the public imagination.”—Catherine Deneuve.
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Simon Sinek: Change
“People don’t fear change. People fear sudden change. People fear revolutions. People don’t fear evolutions.”—Simon Sinek.
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Ursula K Le Guin: What sane person?
“What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?”—Ursula K. Le Guin, author.
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Howard Marks: Inevitable
“Some things are inevitable. But you really shouldn’t think you know when.” –Howard Marks.
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Carrie Fisher: Life and art
“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”—Carrie Fisher.
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Peter Lynch: Second or third inning
“In baseball terms, you want to buy [a stock] in the second or third inning and get out in the seventh or eighth. Walmart was in only 15% of the United States when they were a 10-year-old public company. All they did for the next 30 years was go from 15% to 100%. The stock…
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George Marion McClellan: Love is a flame
Love is a FlameGeorge Marion McClellan “Love is a flame that burns with sacred fire,And fills the being up with sweet desire;Yet, once the altar feels love’s fiery breath,The heart must be a crucible till death. Say love is life; and say it not amiss,That love is but a synonym for bliss.Say what you will…
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Alphonse Alais: Mortality increases perceptibly
“Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.”—Alphonse Alais.
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Witter Bynner: War
War —Witter Bynner “Fools, fools, fools,Your blood is hot to-day.It coolsWhen you are clay.It joins the very clodWherein you look at God,Wherein at last you seeThe living GodThe loving God,Which was your enemy.”—Witter Bynner.
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Howard Marks: None of them ‘know’
“The vast majority of today’s negative-yield bonds are in Europe and Japan. One of the biggest questions surrounds whether negative rates will reach the U.S. This question takes me back to my immediate response to Ian’s suggestion that I write this memo: nobody knows, and certainly not me. When something hasn’t happened in the past,…
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Donika Kelly: I never figured how to get free
I Never Figured How to Get Free Donika Kelly “The war was all over my hands. I held the war and I watched them die in high-definition. I could watch anyone die, but I looked away. Still, I wore the war on my back. I put it on every morning. I walked the dogs and…
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Mark V Hurd: Drive out of the parking lot
“The day you feel like you’ve won, you need to drive out of the parking lot and not come back.”—Mark V. Hurd.
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G K Chesterton: Broadcasting
“Everybody is talking, with a not unnatural excitement, about the wonderful opportunity which broadcasting will give us to send our words to a remote continent. Nobody seems concerned to ask whether we’ve anything to say even to the next street, let alone to the remote continent.”—G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Less disputed
“The teacher is allowed to say that twice two is four, not because it is less dogmatic, but because it is less disputed. In other words, education is easy when dogma is universal. It only becomes difficult when men are divided about dogmas.”—G K Chesterton.
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Andrew Vachss: Endangered species
“Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.”—Andrew Vachss.
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Pico Iyer: Never simply binary
“To speak of winning and losing is to impose a binary system on a world–and lives–that are never simply binary.”—Pico Iyer.
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Simon Sinek: Scalable
“Ideas alone are not scalable. Only when an idea is put into words that people can clearly understand can an idea inspire action.”—Simon Sinek.
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Charlotte Bronte: Sisters’ affections
“You know full well as I do the value of sisters’ affections: There is nothing like it in this world.”—Charlotte Bronte.
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Fannie Hurst: Clever and wise
“It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.”—Fannie Hurst.
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Elijah Cummings: Do good at the same time
“I think it’s important for industry to do well. But I want them to do well and do good at the same time.”—Elijah Cummings.
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Rangi McNeil: The heart is a foreign country
The Heart Is a Foreign Country Rangi McNeil “Ours is a partial language part pantomime, part grimy guesswork: adulterated speculation as to meaning & motivation. Translated, heart suggests a familiar, universal device but internal chemistries vary— though components be the same & not uncommon. The world owes us nothing. It promises less. Call it: freedom.…
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Arthur Miller: Don’t be seduced
“Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.”—Arthur Miller.
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Mike Judge: Favourite characters
“I don’t think people come home from work thinking, ‘I want to be shocked and startled.’ You want to check in with your favorite characters, and it’s nice knowing they’re not going to change that much.”—Mike Judge.
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Benjamin Franklin: Wealth
“Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.” —Benjamin Franklin.
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Simon Sinek: Number of people willing to believe
“What makes a movement strong is not the number of people willing to give money, but the number of people willing to believe there is hope.”—Simon Sinek.
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Joyce Meyer: Force working through them
“We waste a great deal of time being angry and fighting with people when we should realize that our war is spiritual, not physical. We often need to deal with people or circumstances, but if we never realize the truth about the force working through them, we will never truly win.”—Joyce Meyer.
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G K Chesterton: Good for one’s soul
“Joking is undignified; that is why it is so good for one’s soul.”—G K Chesterton.
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James Newman: Mathematics
“The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.”—James Newman.
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Thomas Kempis: Mercy of his own feelings
“When a man is at the mercy of his own feelings, he misinterprets the most innocent actions, always ready to believe the worst; whereas your peaceable man sees good everywhere; at peace in himself, he isn’t suspicious of others.”—Thomas Kempis.
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Tracy Chevalier: Figuratively
“What do you believe, Aunt Elizabeth?’‘I believe. . . I am comfortable with reading the Bible figuratively rather than literally. For instance, I think the six days in Genesis are not literal days, but different periods of creation, so that it took many thousands — or hundreds of thousands of years — to create. It…
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Jessica Meir: Personality and technology
“The other big area now is personality and psychology. You may be good at what you do, but if you are not a pleasant and good person, you won’t get selected anymore. Being a good team player, having good skills in terms of leadership and followership, and knowing how to take care of yourself and…
