Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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…
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Christina Koch: Women naturally excel
“When you’re doing something where getting the job done is paramount, it naturally selects the people that are best at that job. When pure performance is the criteria, I’ve noticed women naturally excel.”—Christina Koch.
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Ray Bradbury: Ignorance
“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.”—Ray Bradbury.
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Abhijit V Banerjee: Information, alone, will not do the trick
“Aren’t we, those who live in the rich world, the constantbeneficiaries of a paternalism now so thoroughly embedded into the system thatwe hardly notice it? It not only ensures that we take care of ourselves better thanwe would if we had to be on top of every decision, but also, by freeing us fromhaving to…
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Esther Duflo: Awareness
“Awareness of our problems thus does not necessarily mean that they get solved. It may just mean that we are able to perfectly anticipate where we will fall.” —Esther Duflo.
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Kathy Fagan: At the Champion Avenue Low-Income Senior & Child Care Services Center
At the Champion Avenue Low-Income Senior & Child Care Services Center—Kathy Fagan When I told them it must be like dropping yourkidoff at school their first day, all my parent friendsnodded and smiled uncomfortably, meaning what would I know. I won’t be taking solacein the many firsts ahead. Here among the gray,spotted and brown heads…
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Simon Sinek: True 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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Chris Bloomstran: Top of my portfolio
“The businesses at the top of my portfolio are not necessarily going to be the ones that perform the best over the long term but are the ones I know will perform.” —Chris Bloomstran.
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Karen An-Hwei Lee: On Floriography
“If you often find yourself at a loss for wordsor don’t know what to say to those you love,just extractpoetryout ofpoverty,this dystopiaof civilization rendered fragrant,blossoming onto star-blue fields of loosestrife,heady spools of spike lavender, of edible clover beckoning to say without bruisinga jot of dog’s tooth violet, a nib of larkspur notes,or the day’s perfumed…
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Simon Sinek: How great everyone else is
“Instead of showing up to let everyone know how great we are, show up to find out how great everyone else is.”—Simon Sinek.
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Dwight D Eisenhower: Dawn of eternal peace
“Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.”—-Dwight D. Eisenhower, US general and 34th president (14 Oct 1890-1969).
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Dwight D Eisenhower: Don’t join the book burners
“Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book…”—Dwight D Eisenhower.
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Haruki Murakami: Pain is inevitable
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.” — Haruki Murakami.
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Edgar Lee Masters: Editor Whedon
Editor Whedon ‘To be able to see every side of every question; To be on every side, to be everything, to be nothing long; To pervert truth, to ride it for a purpose, To use great feelings and passions of the human family For base designs, for cunning end. To wear a mask like the…
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Carlo Rovelli: Reflects the world
“Our knowledge consequently reflects the world. It does this more or less, but it reflects the world we inhabit. This communication between ourselves and the world is not what distinguishes us from the rest of nature. All things are continually interacting with each other, and in doing so each bears the traces of that with…
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Memories
“I have the fondest memories of time spent in places called ugly, the most boring ones of places called scenic.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Kate Walsh: On its own terms
“I’ve learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine.”—Kate Walsh.
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Angela Saini: Be wary
“Be wary of those who try to tell you that women’s bodies and brains are different in every way from men’s. Every single body and brain is different, and while some of those differences are down to sex, many of them aren’t. Biological essentialism is fallacious and dangerous.”—Angela Saini.
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Kay Boyle: Monody to the Sound of Zithers
Monody to the Sound of Zithers I have wanted other things more than lovers …I have desired peace, intimately to knowThe secret curves of deep-bosomed contentment,To learn by heart things beautiful and slow. Cities at night, and cloudful skies, I’ve wanted;And open cottage doors, old colors and smells a part;All dim things, layers of river-mist…
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: He who has never sinned
“He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors though never the same error more than once is more reliable than someone who has never made any.”—Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
