Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Napoleon Bonaparte: Winning general
“The winning general is the one who can best act on imperfect information and half-formed theories.” – Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Woody Allen: Bitten by a Great Dane
“When I asked my mother where babies came from, she thought I said rabies. She said you get them from being bitten by a dog. The next week, a woman on my block gave birth to triplets… I thought she’d been bitten by a Great Dane.”—Woody Allen.
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Al Capp: Abstract art
“Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.”—Al Capp.
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Henri Frederic Amiel: Humility
“There is no respect for others without humility in ones self.”—Henri Frederic Amiel.
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Simon Sinek: Impact comes from action
“Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action.” —Simon Sinek.
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Marcus Aurelius: Wasting their time
“Do external things distract you? Then make time for yourself and learn something worthwhile; stop letting yourself be pulled in all directions. People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time—even when hard at work.” –Marcus Aurelius.
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Dr. Bo Bennett: Rational for a lifetime
“Expose an Irrational Belief, keep a person rational for a dayExpose Irrational Thinking, keep a person rational for a lifetime.”—Dr. Bo Bennett, in Logically Fallacious: The Ultimate Collection of 300 Logical Fallacies.
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Dan Rockwell: Goals can kill you
“Nearly 300 people have died climbing Mt. Everest. Some didn’t quit when they should. Goals can kill you.”—Dan Rockwell.
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Jack LaLanne: Eat less, exercise more
“The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.”—Jack LaLanne.
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Joyce Wheeler: Pause
“Sometimes it’s better to leave something alone, to pause, and that’s very true of programming.” – Joyce Wheeler.
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Yahia Lababidi: Heavy with poems
“If we listen, the air is heavy with poems, ripe for plucking.” —-Yahia Lababidi, aphorist.
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Catherine Zeta-Jones: Own bathroom
“For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.”—Catherine Zeta-Jones.
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Richard Feynman: Mere globs of gas atoms
‘Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms.Nothing is “mere.” I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination – stuck on this carousel my little eye can…
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Urvashi Rautela: Cheat meals
“Cheat meals can be a great tool to develop your physique. They can reset hormones responsible for metabolism and insulin regulation, replenish glycogen for increased energy, and keep calorie-burning mechanisms high.”—Urvashi Rautela.
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John Wooden: Pay that price
“Understand there is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance. You must be willing to pay that price.” —John Wooden.
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Walter Lippmann: Corrupted and weakened by friends
“Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions … are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.” —Walter Lippmann, journalist (23 Sep 1889-1974).
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F Scott Fitzgerald: Ceaselessly into the past
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”—F Scott Fitzgerald.
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Simon Sinek: Authorities and leaders
“Authorities act with themselves in mind. Leaders act with others in mind. Authorities take. Leaders give. Authorities die. Leaders live on.”—Simon Sinek.
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Edward V Berard: Frozen
.”Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.” – Edward V Berard.
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Dan Rockwell: Obstructionists
‘Obstructionists ask questions to block progress. One employee said, “When I don’t want to do something, I start asking lots of questions.“‘ —Dan Rockwell.
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Julio Iglesias: Same amount of strength
“I used to play football for Real Madrid, and to be on stage for two hours, I can tell you it takes the same amount of strength.”—Julio Iglesias.
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Herbert Hoover: Pigeonholes
“There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter…
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Mark Nepo: Deep listening
“But how do we listen? It is so simple and so hard. So obvious to begin and so elusive to maintain. In this lies the vitality of deep listening. To keep beginning. Over and over. To keep emptying and opening. And simply to keep listening. For to listen is to continually give up all expectation…
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Hal Lancaster: Getting fired
“Getting fired is nature’s way of telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.”~Hal Lancaster.
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C S Lewis: Forget about yourself altogether
It is better to forget about yourself altogether.” —C S Lewis.
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Charles Brenton Huggins: Nature
“Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer.”—Charles Brenton Huggins.
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Romila Thapar: Rather than the confrontation
“It is said that the Hindus must have been upset at seeing Turkish and Mongol soldiers in their heavy boots trampling the floors of the temples. The question is, which Hindus? For, the same temple if it was now entered by mleccha soldiers was open only to upper-caste Hindus and its sanctum was in any…
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Dan Rockwell: Lousy leaders
“Lousy leaders focus on what’s wrong with you. Turn your complaining tongue on yourself if you enjoy complaining about others. Under-performing leaders complain about others. But nothing changes until you focus on your performance first.” —-Dan Rockwell.
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Ellen Ullman: On top of ruins
“We build our computer systems the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.”— Ellen Ullman.
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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.
