Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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Ruth Muskrat Bronson: The Hunter’s Wooing
The Hunter’s Wooing “Come roam the wild hills, my Cherokee Rose,Come roam the wild hills with me.We’ll follow the path where the Spavinaw flows,Dashing wild on its way to the sea,On its wearisome way to the sea.We’ll chase the fleet deer from its lair in the woods;We’ll follow the wolf to his den. When the…
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Nerdiness the reverse
“Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse.”—Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Minnie Riperton: Australia’s gift to insomniacs
“Olivia Newton-John—Australia’s gift to insomniacs. It’s nothing but the blonde singing the bland.”—Minnie Riperton.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Complaints
“Complaints don’t deliver complaints, they mostly reveal your weakness.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Dan Rockwell: Don’t cast pearls before pigs
‘Don’t cast pearls before pigs. When you realize you’re dealing with a know-it-all say, “Oh, I see you already know what you should do about this. I shouldn’t have offered my suggestions. Please feel free to keep me informed on your progress.”’—Dan Rockwell.
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Marie Curie: Improving individuals
“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.”—Marie Curie, scientist.
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Marie Curie: Understand more
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”—Marie Curie.
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Simon Sinek: Progress
“When we point to obstacles, we inhibit progress. When we offer solutions, we advance it.”—Simon Sinek.
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James Jones: Combat
“I don’t think that combat has ever been written about truthfully; it has always been described in terms of bravery and cowardice. I won’t even accept these words as terms of human reference any more. And anyway, hell, they don’t even apply to what, in actual fact, modern warfare has become.”—James Jones.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Aggressive trial and error
‘I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or “incentives” for skill.’—Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Shane Parrish: Look like an idiot
“You have to be willing to look like an idiot in the short run to outperform in the long run. While copying what others already do helps achieve average results quickly, common approaches never outperform. What ends as being better starts as being different.”—Shane Parrish.
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Ryan Campbell: Commenting code
“Commenting your code is like cleaning your bathroom – you never want to do it, but it really does create a more pleasant experience for you and your guests.” —Ryan Campbell.
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Simon Sinek: Art of leadership
“The art of leadership is about inspiring people to build something, not threatening to break something.”—Simon Sinek.
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Grace Cavalieri: A Field of Finches Without Sight Still Singing
A Field of Finches Without Sight Still Singing “That song comes from sorrow there is no doubt. Bullfinches in ancient times had eyes put out so they would sing more sweet. Think of those black beads dropped to earth coming to seed flowers turning inward every single one of them without its sight. Stories say…
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Cowards of men
“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.”—Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet.
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Bill Walton: You don’t win championships
“You don’t win championships by just being normal, by just being average.”—Bill Walton.
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Will Rogers: If people start thinking
“A king can stand people’s fighting, but he can’t last long if people start thinking.”—Will Rogers, humorist.
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Warren Buffett: Find wonderful businesses
“In general terms, unless you find the prices of a great company really offensive…. I think it’s better just to own them. We could attempt to buy and sell some of the things that we own that we think are fine businesses. But they’re too hard to find…. So, to sit there and hope that…
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Ruth Handler: Dreams of their own futures
“They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women.”—Ruth Handler.
