Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Sandra Simonds: There was this bear cam
‘There was this bear cam on the Internet. It was pointed at a place called Katmai National Park, Alaska. A few years ago my friend sent me a link to it. I would watch it sometimes but I never saw any bears. Maybe it was bad luck because my friend said she saw bears. All…
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Luciano Pavarotti: Brains and music
“You don’t need any brains to listen to music.” —Luciano Pavarotti.
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Fran Mauriac: Great deserted palaces
“Most men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed off wings where he never ventures.” —Fran Mauriac, writer, Nobel laureate (11 Oct 1885-1970).
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Olga Tokarczuk: Where people speak English
“There are countries out there where people speak English. But not like us – we have our own languages hidden in our carry-on luggage, in our cosmetics bags, only ever using English when we travel, and then only in foreign countries, to foreign people. It’s hard to imagine, but English is the real language! Oftentimes…
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Peter Handke: Thrilled
“No one can be trusted who isn’t thrilled with himself at least now and then.”—Peter Handke.
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Lennie James: Justifications
“If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or villains. People arent bad people. They all have their justifications.”—Lennie James.
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Paul Leary: Working with computers
“That’s what’s cool about working with computers. They don’t argue, they remember everything and they don’t drink all your beer.”—Paul Leary.
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Fridtjof Nansen: No choice but forward
“I demolish my bridges behind me – then there is no choice but forward.”—Fridtjof Nansen.
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Tommy Ludwig: When software just works
“When software just works, it can be hard to actually know how much or who is consuming the software because they’re busy successfully using it instead of reporting issues. But it can be hard to distinguish that from nobody using it.” —Tommy Ludwig.
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Benjamin Franklin: Human felicity
“Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.” —Benjamin Franklin.
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Ted Hughes: Calibration
“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”—Ted Hughes.
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Doug Hoyte: Incomplete and uncomfortable
“Once a programmer becomes used to a complex solution to a problem, simple solutions to the same problem feel incomplete and uncomfortable.” — Doug Hoyte.
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John W Gardner: Honor excellence
“We must learn to honor excellence in every socially accepted human activity, however humble the activity, and to scorn shoddiness, however exalted the activity. An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society that scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it…
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Andrey Kurkov: Commonplace
“The once terrible was now commonplace, meaning that people accepted it as the norm and went on living, instead of getting needlessly agitated.”—Andrey Kurkov.
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Nick Cannon: Nobody can predict the future
“Nobody can predict the future. You just have to give your all to the relationship youre in and do your best to take care of your partner, communicate and give them every last drop of love you have. I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other…
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Joseph Sobran: ‘Diversity’
‘”Diversity” now means conformity. It means making sensible people afraid to contradict nonsense so obvious as to insult their intelligence.‘ —Joseph Sobran.
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Meghna Pant: Duality
“I festered with this duality of love and ego, where ego scorns the very love it’s seeking and then despairs in its absence.” —Meghna Pant.
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Amish Tripathi: Most powerful force in a woman’s life
“The most powerful force in a woman’s life is the need to be appreciated, loved and cherished for what she is.”—Amish Tripathi.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Size of the theater
“The market is like a large movie theater with a small door. And the best way to detect a sucker is to see if his focus is on the size of the theater rather than that of the door.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Desmond Tutu: Neutrality
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” —Desmond Tutu, clergyman.
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Niels Bohr: Expert
“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”—Niels Bohr.
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Damian Conway: Documentation
“Documentation is a love letter that you write to your future self.”—Damian Conway.
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Dag Hammarskjöld: Thanks and yes
“For all that’s been, ‘thanks’ and for all that will be, ‘yes’.” —Dag Hammarskjöld.
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Frances Willard: Friction versus momentum
“The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.”—Frances Willard.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: No fool
“I write only if I feel like it and only on a subject I feel like writing about and the reader is no fool.”—Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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David Alpay: Either or
“You either like something, or you don’t, you wont change your opinion because somebody explains why you should like it.”—David Alpay.
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Dan Rockwell: Skin in the game
“When you hear complaints from team members, determine if they are contributing-complainers or dead weight. Pay attention to complaints from people with skin in the game.”—Dan Rockwell.
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Rutherford B Hayes: Serves the country best
“He serves his party best who serves the country best.”—Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th US president (4 Oct 1822-1893).
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Simon Sinek: Be better today
“The goal is not to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better today.”—Simon Sinek.
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Dan Rockwell: You’re on your own
“You’re on your own when people feel excluded and disrespected. Invite people to participate early and often.” —Dan Rockwell.
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Anne Rice: Changes over time
“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are..”—Anne Rice.
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Erik von Detten: In a girl
“In a girl I look for honesty above all, someone who I can carry on a conversation with, someone who has a good sense of humor, someone who’s true to herself, and to top it, someone who can get ready for a date in less than ten minutes.” —Erik von Detten.
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Thomas Wolfe: Pinnacle of success
“You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.” —Thomas Wolfe, novelist.
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Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar: Mahatmas have come, Mahatmas have gone
“Mahatmas have come, Mahatmas have gone but the Untouchables have remained as Untouchables.”—Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar.
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Mahatma Gandhi: Truth
“Truth never damages a cause that is just.”—Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 Oct 1869-1948).
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Dan Rockwell: Future of your relationships
“How you occur to others – when you show up – reflects the future of your relationships. Leaders who never screw up aren’t worth following. Leaders who own their failures learn empathy for others.”—Dan Rockwell.
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Warren Buffett: Margin of safety
“We think that when we make a decision, there ought to be such a margin of safety that it ought to be so attractive that you don’t have to carry it out to three decimal places.” —Warren Buffett.
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Caroline Criado-Pérez: Not paid
“There is no such thing as a woman who doesn’t work. There is only a woman who isn’t paid for her work.”—Caroline Criado-Pérez,Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men.
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Jeffrey Archer: Deal with a fool
“If you make a deal with a fool, don’t be surprised when they act foolishly.”—Jeffrey Archer.
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Mahatma Gandhi: Live and learn
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”—Mahatma Gandhi.
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Simon Sinek: Little changes
“People are afraid of big changes, but usually embrace little changes. The best thing about little changes is they add up to one big one.”—Simon Sinek.
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Dan Rockwell: Neglect
“It’s not patient to tolerate poor performance. It’s neglect. Patience with poor performance eventually becomes permission to perform poorly. Approval becomes abuse. Develop a plan to solve issues. Don’t simply declare that you expect things to change.”—Dan Rockwell.
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Jim Rohn: No progress without decisions
“It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.” — Jim Rohn.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Downside risk
“It is no secret that large corporations prefer people with families; those with downside risk are easier to own, particularly when they are choking under a large mortgage.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Dale Dauten: Don’t burn bridges
“There aren’t too many principles of proper business conduct with which just about everybody will agree. Two come to mind: 1. Unless you’re a professional athlete, don’t offer co-workers encouragement by patting them on the butt, and 2. Don’t burn bridges.”—Dale Dauten.
