Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Sarah Kay: Maybe Love stays
‘Maybe Love stays.Maybe Love can’t.Maybe Love shouldn’t.Love arrives exactly when Love is supposed to and Love leaves exactly when Love must.When Love arrives, say, “Welcome. Make yourself comfortable.”If Love leaves, ask her to leave the door open behind her.Turn off the music. Listen to the quiet.Whisper, “Thank you for stopping by.”‘—Sarah Kay.
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Sir Francis Bacon: Valid number
“If we start with what we think is a valid number, we will tend to continue with that number. When in fact, we should speak only in terms of confidence intervals and probabilities of success.”—Sir Francis Bacon.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Imagine
“The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Bill Murray: Very polite
“In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can’t help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They’re very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you’re there.”—Bill Murray.
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David Schwimmer: A little sad
“I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.” —David Schwimmer.
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Rituparna Chatterjee: No two sides to them
“Some arguments cannot morally have two sides to them.” —Rituparna Chatterjee.
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Simon Sinek: Two type of decisions
“There are two types of decisions: good decisions and lessons learned.”—Simon Sinek.
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Dan Rockwell: Feelings
“Feelings can’t be trusted. Feelings want you to take the easy path and beat you up when you do. When you avoid a tough conversation, you feel relief. Later, you feel anxious and disappointed.”—Dan Rockwell.
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Sarah Kay: Hiroshima
‘When they bombed Hiroshima, the explosion formed a mini-supernova, so every living animal, human or plant that received direct contact with the rays from that sun was instantly turned to ash. And what was left of the city soon followed. The long-lasting damage of nuclear radiation caused an entire city and its population to turn…
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Warren Buffett: Know-nothing investing
“And there’s nothing wrong with the know-nothing investor practicing it. It’s exactly what they should practice. It’s exactly what a good professional investor should not practice. There’s no contradiction in that. A know-nothing investor will get decent results as long as they know they’re a know-nothing investor, diversify as to time they purchase their equities,…
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Charlie Munger: Diversification
“The whole secret of investment is to find places where it’s safe and wise to non-diversify. It’s just that simple. Diversification is for the know-nothing investor; it’s not for the professional.” —Charlie Munger.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Curse of modernity
“The curse of modernity is that we are increasingly populated by a class of people who are better at explaining than understanding, or better at explaining than doing.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Warren Buffett: Strong probability category
“There have been…several times I had 75 percent of my net worth in one situation…. You will see things that it would be a mistake — if you’re working with smaller sums — it would be a mistake not to have half your net worth in. You really do, sometimes in securities, see things that…
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Êmile-Auguste Chartier: Indignation
“The only thing that could prevent you from fulfilling your mission is indignation.” —Êmile-Auguste Chartier.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Negative knowledge
“Let us say that, in general, failure (and disconfirmation) are more informative than success and confirmation, which is why I claim that negative knowledge is just more robust.”—Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Dan Rockwell: Hang with the courageous
“Hang with the courageous. Fear talks you out of exceptional and into mediocre.” —Dan Rockwell.
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Sharat Chander: Community success
“Community success isn’t just rooted in agreement, but also in hearing, understanding and accepting differences. Spirited debate is healthy but should always be professional, open-minded and sincere.” —Sharat Chander.
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Dan Rockwell: Humility
“Humility allows for learning, growing, and improvement.” “A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.” —Alexander Pope. “Bigheads can’t improve because they can’t be wrong.” —Dan Rockwell.
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Cass Elliot: Get involved in politics
“I think everybody who has a brain should get involved in politics. Working within. Not criticizing it from the outside. Become an active participant, no matter how feeble you think the effort is.” —Cass Elliot, singer.
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Ernest Hemingway: True nobility
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.”—Ernest Hemingway.
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Laird Hamilton: Worst enemy
“Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your two ears.”~Laird Hamilton.
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C S Lewis: Unscrupulous
“In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere….God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.” —C. S. Lewis.
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Leon Jaworski: Competent extremist
“I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.”—Leon Jaworski.
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Steve McConnell: Error-free
“It’s hard enough to find an error in your code when you’re looking for it; it’s even harder when you’ve assumed your code is error-free.”—Steve McConnell.
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John Wooden: No substitute for hard work
“There is no substitute for hard work. If you’re looking for the easy way, if you’re looking for the trick, you might get by for a while, but you will not be developing the talents that lie within you. There is simply no substitute for work.”—John Wooden.
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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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William Carlos Williams: What power has love but forgiveness?
“What power has love but forgiveness?” —William Carlos Williams, poet (17 Sep 1883-1963).
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Vinita Dawra Nangia: Walk with change
“The only happy and relevant people are those who have learnt to walk with change.”—Vinita Dawra Nangia.
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Cornelia Funke: Stories
“Stories never really end…even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don’t end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”—Cornelia Funke.
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Charlie Munger: Profit sitting in the yard
“We tend to prefer the business which drowns in cash. It just makes so much money that one of the main principles of owning it is you have all this cash coming in. There are other businesses, like the construction equipment business of my old friend John Anderson. And he used to say about his…
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Lionel Shriver: Ideal rogues
“For storytellers, financiers make ideal rogues. The easiest way to make characters unappealing is to make them rich – shorthand for spoiled, picky, superior, and cold-hearted.”—Lionel Shriver.
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Nathan W Dougherty: Ideal engineer
“The ideal engineer is a composite … He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer; but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems.”—-Nathan W. Dougherty, American civil engineer.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Bull***tter
“I am never bothered by normal people; it is the bull***tter in the intellectual profession who bothers me.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Skin in the Game.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Zero-sum
‘People are brainwashed to not realize that so many “noble” pursuits (academia, service, anything where one is paid with “honors”) are zero-sum. And wealth pursuits, outside of rent seeking, aren’t zero-sum.’ —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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M F Husain: Instincts from my soul
“I only give expression to the instincts from my soul.”—M F Husain.
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Margaret Atwood: Fifty-two names
“The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.”—Margaret Atwood.
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Anaïs Nin: Destiny
“What we call our destiny is inside us. It is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it means we are free to change our destiny.”—Anaïs Nin.
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Indra Nooyi: No longer random
“When you assume negative intent, you’re angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.”Indra Nooyi.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Purify relations
‘My experience is that money and transactions purify relations; ideas and abstract matters like “recognition” and “credit” warp them, creating an atmosphere of perpetual rivalry.’—Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Antifragile.
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Simon Sinek: Trust
“Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear.”—Simon Sinek.
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Robert Michael Gates: Different paradigms
“Our conventional modernization programs seek a 99% solution in years. Stability and counterinsurgency missions – the wars we are in – requires 75% solutions in months. The challenge is whether in our bureaucracy and in our minds these two different paradigms can be made to coexist”—R. M. Gates.
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Dan Rockwell: Consequences of disrespect
“It might feel good to ‘put people in their place,’ but the consequences of disrespect aren’t worth the pleasures of feeling superior.”—Dan Rockwell.
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Daren Kagasoff: Figure out what you want
“Relationships are important, but stay focused on all the things that are important. Figure out what you want.”—Daren Kagasoff.
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David Attenborough: Extraordinary thing
“I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn ’til dusk, unless it’s a pigeon, which isn’t really wild, which might come and settle near them.”—David Attenborough.
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Agatha Christie: Curious thought
“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.” —Agatha Christie.
