Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Debts of grandparents
“The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.”—Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Carl Sandburg: Evidence and principle
“If the facts (evidence) are against you, argue the law (principle). If the law (principle) is against you, argue the facts (evidence). If the law (principle) and the facts (evidence) are against you, pound the table and yell like hell (call names, block people from speaking out against the nonsense).”—Carl Sandburg.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Gains from disorder
“When you ask people, ‘What’s the opposite of fragile?,’ they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That’s not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.”—Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Dolph Lundgren: Great loves
“Everybody’s life has some mythical quality. You struggle against obstacles, you fight to get to a higher level and there are great loves.”—Dolph Lundgren.
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Robert Hayden: Those Winter Sundays
Those Winter Sundays “Sundays too my father got up earlyand put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,then with cracked hands that achedfrom labor in the weekday weather madebanked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.When the rooms were warm, he’d call,and slowly I would rise and dress,fearing…
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James K Polk: Passion for office
“The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.”—James K Polk.
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Simon Sinek: Giving
‘Giving is sometimes as simple as saying “thank you” to someone and meaning it. We should all give a little more.’—Simon Sinek.
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Stephen Crane: Sense of obligation
‘A man said to the universe: “Sir, I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.”‘—Stephen Crane.
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Darrell Issa: Oversight and reform
“I’ve always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.”—Darrell Issa.
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June Jordan: Poem for one little girl blue
Poem for One Little Girl Blue “She hangs onto sadnessthe way somebody else treads waterwaiting for the worldto see how much she hurts from familymadness pierced her rib cagetwenty years ago And she’ll continue to compete as VictimAbsoluteuntil she finally receives a goldmedallion for her sufferingor a truly purple heart completewith ribbonsso that she can…
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Simon Sinek: Confidence and courage
“So much of starting a business or affecting change is the confidence and courage to simply try.”—Simon Sinek.
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Chiang Kai-Shek: Eternal truths
“We live in the present, we dream of the future, and we learn eternal truths from the past.”—Chiang Kai-Shek.
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Ezra Pound: Great literature
“Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.”—Ezra Pound, poet.
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Lisa Ray: Success
“…success is merely a concept which we want to show-off in front of the world. In reality, sadness and failures, too, define your victory. However, nobody wants to talk about them.” —Lisa Ray.
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A C Grayling: Ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant
“To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason – to believe something by faith – is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect.”—A C Grayling.
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William Halsey: No extraordinary men
“There are no extraordinary men… just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.”—William Halsey.
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Simon Sinek: Changing the world
“Changing the world takes more than everything any one person knows, but not more than we know together. So let’s work together.”—Simon Sinek.
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Warren Buffett: Looking for the obvious
“We’re looking for the obvious, and something that is within our capability of doing something about. But we’re not trying to beat people at their own game where we’re not very good at the game.”—Warren Buffett.
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Queen Marie of Romania: Fashion and etiquette
“Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.”—Queen Marie of Romania.
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Thomas Kempis: Carry your cross willingly
“If you carry your cross willingly, it will carry you and bring you to the goal for which you long. If you grudge carrying your cross, it becomes a burden that weighs you down all the more. If you reject one cross, you’ll certainly find another; and this time it may not be so light.”—Thomas…
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Simon Sinek: Not out of contempt
“Innovators ignore the rules not out of contempt. They are simply more focused on their vision than the things that stand in the way.”—Simon Sinek.
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Warren Buffett: Well protected
“A really wonderful business is very well protected against the vicissitudes of the economy over time and the competition. I mean, we’re talking about businesses that are resistant to effective competition. And three of those will be better than 100 average businesses. And they’ll be safer, incidentally. There is less risk in owning three easy-to-identify,…
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Julia Roberts: Connected
“I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn’t matter what you do, or who you are or where you live, there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.” —Julia Roberts.
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Dan Rockwell: Remarkable people
“People with extraordinary strengths have exceptional weaknesses. Don’t limit your success by eliminating remarkable people. A detail-person is too literal. A person who is good with people talks too much. Don’t let the negative 20% pollute the positive 80%.” —Dan Rockwell.
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Niccolo Paganini: I am not handsome
“I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to my feet.”—Niccolo Paganini.
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Anita Nair: This is the world
“This is the world. Half of it is lit by the sun and the other half remains in darkness. It is the same with life. There is good and bad and it’s our duty to remain in the light, be good.”—Anita Nair
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Pablo Picasso: Goals
“Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.”—Pablo Picasso.
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Aimee Nezhukumatathil: Hummingbird Abecedarian
Hummingbird AbecedarianAimee Nezhukumatathil “Arriving with throats like nipped roses, like a tinybloom fastened to each neck, nothing elsecuts the air quite like this thrum to make the smalldog at my feet whine and yelp. So we wait—noexcitement pinned to the sky so needled and our days openfull of rain for weeks. Nothing yet from the…
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Hillary Clinton: Dignity
“Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.”—Hillary Clinton.
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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.
