Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Successes in college
“There is no more unmistakable sign of failure than that of a middle-aged man boasting of his successes in college.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Emily Dickinson: Startling
“To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”—Emily Dickinson.
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Simon Sinek: Rule books and frameworks
“Rule books tell people what to do. Frameworks guide people how to act. Rule books insist on discipline. Frameworks allow for creativity.”—Simon Sinek.
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Kirk Douglas: Everyone else does
“When you become a star, you don’t change,everyone else does.”—Kirk Douglas.
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William Durrant: Rather than with their minds
“The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.”—William Durrant.
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Patrice O’Neal: I don’t like mediocre
“I like to be loved or hated – I don’t like mediocre. So I’d rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.”—Patrice O’Neal.
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Alfred Joyce Kilmer: Poem lovely as a tree
“I think that I shall never see / A poem lovely as a tree.” —-(Alfred) Joyce Kilmer.
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Alfred Eisenstaedt: Click with people
“It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.”—Alfred Eisenstaedt.
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Walt Disney: Temporary
“Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. That is why I believe that this frightfulness we see everywhere today is only temporary. Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life.”—Walt Disney.
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Martin Van Buren: Sober Second Thought
“The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.”—Martin Van Buren.
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Rainer Maria Milke: Widening circles
“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. I may not complete this last one but I will try.”—Rainer Maria Rilke.
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Wassily Kandinsky: Color is the keyboard
“Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.”—Wassily Kandinsky.
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Amanda Seyfried: A little bit every time
“It changes you a little bit every time you either break someone’s heart or get your heart broken.”—Amanda Seyfried.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Feel a little bit lost
“We need to feel a little bit lost somewhere, physically or intellectually, at least once a day.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Ernest Newman: Inspired
“The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.”—Ernest Newman.
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Simon Sinek: People are still people
“We can learn about our future from our past because, regardless of technology or the speed of innovation, people are still people.”—Simon Sinek.
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Ed Harris: Reaction based on fear
“There’s always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you’re criticizing a decision to go to war, then you’re saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case.”—Ed Harris.
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Claude Levi-Strauss: Naive or dishonest
“One must be very naive or dishonest to imagine that men choose their beliefs independently of their situation.”—Claude Levi-Strauss, anthropologist.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Rare events
“The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare.”—Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Paul Graham: Non-obvious
“To discover new things, you have to work on ideas that are good but non-obvious; if an idea is obviously good, other people are probably already working on it. One common way for a good idea to be non-obvious is for it to be hidden in the shadow of some mistaken assumption that people are…
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Francoise d’Aubigne de Maintenon: Solace those of others
“The true way to soften one’s troubles is to solace those of others.”—Francoise d’Aubigne de Maintenon.
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Ellen Ullman: Relationship with error
“To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There’s no getting around it. You either make your accommodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable.”—Ellen Ullman.
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Eugene Ionesco: Ideologies
“Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.”—Eugene Ionesco, playwright.
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Lewis Thomas: When assembled in masses
“We haven’t yet learned how to stay human when assembled in masses.”—Lewis Thomas.
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Bruce Paltrow: Homogenized
“Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost.”—Bruce Paltrow.
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Karl Benz: Lunatic and death wish
“My first customer was a lunatic. My second had a death wish.”—Karl Benz.
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Arundhati Roy: Pity the nation
“Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.”—Arundhati Roy.
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Franklin Pierce: No calculation
“In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.”—Franklin Pierce.
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Simon Sinek: Delicate blend
“Pure pragmatism cannot imagine a bold future. Pure idealism cannot get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives innovation.”—Simon Sinek.
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Voltaire: Work
“Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.”—Voltaire, philosopher (21 Nov 1694-1778).
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Never ask anyone
“Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have—or don’t have—in their portfolio.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Goldie Hawn: Enjoy the moment more fully
“If we can just let go and trust that things will work out they way they’re supposed to, without trying to control the outcome, then we can begin to enjoy the moment more fully. The joy of the freedom it brings becomes more pleasurable than the experience itself.”—Goldie Hawn.
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Nadine Gordimer: Hunger for truth
“The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”—Nadine Gordimer, novelist, Nobel laureate (20 Nov 1923-2014).
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Robert F Kennedy: One-fifth
“One-fifth of the people are against everything all of the time.”—Robert F Kennedy.
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G K Chesterton: Right wrongly
“If a man uses a right wrongly, the answer is for everybody to use their rights rightly; not to give up all their rights on chance of curing the wrong.” —G K Chesterton.
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Simon Sinek: Optimists
“Great leaders are optimists. This is not the same as being positive. Positive is finding the light in the now; optimists see the light always.”—Simon Sinek.
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Peter Drucker: Three times as fast
“Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.”—Peter Drucker, management consultant, professor and writer.
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Meg Ryan: Not immaculate idols
“It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.”—Meg Ryan.
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Elizabeth Perkins: Kill the clone
“I would kill the clone. That would be my first response.”—Elizabeth Perkins.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Busy
‘Someone who says “I am busy” is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.’ —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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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.
