Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld: Absence
“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”—Francois de La Rochefoucauld.
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Rujuta Diwekar: Sound idea
“Everyone must lose weight to get healthier is a very sound idea. As sound as everyone must do medicine or engineering to be successful.” —Rujuta Diwekar.
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Dan Rockwell: Real issue
“When people constantly explain why it can’t be done, the real issue is commitment.” —Dan Rockwell.
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Solomon Asch: Social acts
“Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated… No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.”—Solomon Asch.
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Michael C Munger: Role of democracy
“The role of democracy is not to banish disagreement but rather to prevent political disagreements from devolving into armed conflict.”—Michael C. Munger.
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Malcolm Gladwell: Real limits
“We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.”—Malcolm Gladwell.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Narrative
“You need a story to displace a story. Metaphors and stories are far more potent (alas) than ideas; they are also easier to remember and more fun to read. If I have to go after what I call the narrative disciplines, my best tool is a narrative.” —-Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Felicity Huffman: Contraception
“The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.”—Felicity Huffman.
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Roald Dahl: Ugly thoughts
“If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a…
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Simon Sinek: Leadership
“Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge.”—Simon Sinek.
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Desmond Llewellyn: Loony bin
“My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you’d be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they’d have you put in the loony bin.”—Desmond Llewelyn.
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Jacqueline Bisset: Three lives
“Ideally, couples need three lives, one for him, one for her, and one for them together.”—Jacqueline Bisset.
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Dan Rockwell: Progress
“Progress is a potent elixir that fuels vitality. Conformists provide steady progress. Contrarians, complainers, and irritants innovate. At the end of the day, your team should know if they won, lost, or ran in place.”—Dan Rockwell.
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Dan Rockwell: Reflect you
“When I’m joking around, others are laughing and smiling. When I’m stressed, the ride is no fun for anyone. Influence means your behaviours matter. The people around you – to some degree – reflect you.” —Dan Rockwell.
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H L Mencken: Moral certainty
“Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them…
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Charlie Munger: Nature of things
“You’ve got to remember that it’s the nature of things that most small businesses will never be big businesses. It’s also in the nature of things that most big businesses eventually fall into mediocrity or worse.”—Charlie Munger.
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Samantha Power: United Nations
“Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act – and to hold them accountable when they don’t.”—Samantha Power.
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Daniel Johnston: Listen up
“Listen up and I’ll tell a story about an artist growing old. Some would try for fame and glory; others aren’t so bold.”—Daniel Johnston.
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Taapsee Pannu: Looking good not a task?
“Who said that looking good is not a task? There are so many girls with a well maintained body, but will they be able to walk the beachside in front of the camera wearing a swimsuit? Carrying your body in a certain manner to look sexy is also an art.”—Taapsee Pannu.
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Amy Yasbeck: Husband and wife
“After you play husband and wife on camera multiple times, it becomes easy to be husband and wife off camera as well.”—Amy Yasbeck.
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O. Henry: Shadows of words
“Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!” ― O. Henry.
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Jessica Mitford: Embarrass the guilty
“You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.” —-Jessica Mitford, author, journalist, and civil rights activist.
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Warren Buffett: Terrible mistake
“It’s a terrible mistake to kind of sleepwalk through your life, because unless Shirley MacLaine is right, it’s the only one you’re going to have…. When you’re in a position to make choices, I always tell the kids that come visit me, ‘Go to work for an organization you admire or an individual you admire.’……
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Billy Collins: The Names
“Yesterday, I lay awake in the palm of the night. A soft rain stole in, unhelped by any breeze, And when I saw the silver glaze on the windows, I started with A, with Ackerman, as it happened, Then Baxter and Calabro, Davis and Eberling, names falling into place As droplets fell through the dark.…
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O. Henry: When our day’s work is done
“Each of us, when our day’s work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster a la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.”—O. Henry.
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Salman Rushdie: Version of the world
“A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.” —Salman Rushdie.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: You just harm yourself
“When you beat up someone physically, you get exercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.”—Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes.
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Gloria Steinem: Not a cry for war
‘Our grief is not a cry for war.“That’s how New Yorkers feel,” the driver said. “They know what bombing looks like, and they know the hell it is. But outside New York, people will feel guilty because they weren’t here. They’ll be yelling for revenge out of guilt and ignorance. Sure, we all want to…
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Urmila Matondkar: The moment I think I’m superior
“As long as I don’t look down upon any characters, that’s fine. The moment I do that – the moment I think I’m superior or that others are inferior – I’m finished as an artist and as a human being.”—Urmila Matondkar.
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Jon Hamm: Growing up
“I’ve gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you’re not getting away with it, it’s taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others.”—Jon Hamm.
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Rudyard Kipling: If you don’t get what you want
“If you don’t get what you want, it’s a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price.” — Rudyard Kipling.
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Dan Rockwell: Letting go
“The first step into your future is letting go of what stopped working.”—Dan Rockwell.
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William Dalrymple: Strange way with conquerors
“India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly seduces, assimilates and transforms them.”—William Dalrymple,White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India.
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Simon Sinek: Infinite number of solutions
“There are only a finite number of problems but there are an infinite number of solutions.”—Simon Sinek.
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Nouriel Roubini: Volatile gold
“In an extreme credit crunch, leveraged purchases of gold cause forced sales, because any price correction triggers margin calls. As a result, gold can be very volatile – upward and downward – at the peak of a crisis.”—Nouriel Roubini.
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Gavin Newsom: Ultimate monopoly
“Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.”—Gavin Newsom.
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Charlottë Bronte: Past, present, future
“What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter?”—Charlotte Brontë.
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Clare Mackintosh: Wasted on empty court room
“They speak to each other through the magistrate, like warring children communicating through a parent, their words are extravagantly emotive illustrated with flamboyant gestures that are wasted on the empty court room.”—Clare Mackintosh.
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Mahira Khan: Nationality has nothing to do with it
“Only a good actor has an edge over a weak actor. A hardworking actor has an edge over a lazy actor. Nationality has nothing to do with it.”—Mahira Khan.
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Simon Sinek: Giving mindset
“Those with a giving mindset take some comfort knowing that even though they didn’t get exactly what they wanted, they helped someone else get exactly what they wanted.”—Simon Sinek.
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Jack Ma: Hong Kong
“Hong Kong people say Hong Kong needs to preserve its uniqueness. I say Hong Kong’s uniqueness is in its diversity, its tolerance of difference cultures… China does not want to see Hong Kong in decline. I have full confidence in its future.”—Jack Ma.
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Jimmy Carter: Grandparents
“Because (grandparents) are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations.” — Jimmy Carter.
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James Agate: New Year’s Resolution
“New Years Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.”—James Agate.
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Simon Sinek: Value
“Value is not determined by those who set the price. Value is determined by those who choose to pay it.” —Simon Sinek.
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Dan Rockwell: Finding fire
“You can’t light someone’s fire when yours is out. Great leaders fuel fires. Lousy leaders drown dreams. Finding purpose is like finding fire.” —Dan Rockwell.
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Ram Jethmalani: Soul of law in torment
“The function of the judge is to see that law is enforced and the lawbreaker punished. Today the Rule of Law is unfortunately displaced by the rule of successive scams. The soul of Law is in torment. Good lawyers and all good men can see that law enforcement is suffering from lack of oxygen. It…
