Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Dan Rockwell: Commitment
“When one excuse follows another, the real issue is commitment.”—Dan Rockwell.
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Ben Shapiro: Socialism and the Ten Commandments
“Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren’t about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?”—Ben Shapiro.
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Dan Rockwell: Hurt, anger, bitterness
“Disappointment turns to hurt. Hurt turns to anger. Anger becomes bitterness.”—Dan Rockwell.
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Francois Mauriac: Heart of a man
“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”—Francois Mauriac.
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Alexander Mackendrick: Better actors
“Children are often better actors than adults because they have a greater capacity for believing in aAlexander situation.”—Alexander Mackendrick.
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Shirish Kunder: No achievements to celebrate
“Those who have no achievements to celebrate, celebrate other people’s failure.” —Shirish Kunder.
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Malcolm Gladwell: Storytelling problem
“We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We’re a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don’t really have an explanation for.” —-Malcolm Gladwell.
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Rowan Atkinson: Right to ridicule religion
“To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas – even if they are sincerely held beliefs – is one of the fundamental freedoms of society. A law which attempts to say…
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Jorge Bucay: No permission needed
“I allow myself to look for what I think I need in the world and not wait for someone to give me permission to get it.” —Jorge Bucay.
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John Maxwell: Reproduce what we are
“A burned-out leader reproduces burned-out people because we reproduce what we are, not what we want.”—John Maxwell.
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Meir Lehman: Evolving complexity
“An evolving system increases its complexity unless work is done to reduce it.” —Meir Lehman.
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William A Irwin: Use ten minutes intelligently
“Learn to use ten minutes intelligently. It will pay you huge dividends.”—William A. Irwin.
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Mich Ravera: How fast doesn’t matter
“If it doesn’t work, it doesn’t matter how fast it doesn’t work.” – Mich Ravera.
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Albert Einstein: One hour to save the world
“If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the questions, and only five minutes finding the answers.” —attributed to Albert Einstein.
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Julian Assange: Economic signal
“The west has fiscalised its basic power relationships through a web of contracts, loans, shareholdings, bank holdings and so on. In such an environment it is easy for speech to be ‘free’ because a change in political will rarely leads to any change in these basic instruments. Western speech, as something that rarely has any…
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Andy Serkis: Video gaming
“Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre.” —Andy Serkis.
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Felicity Huffman: Like a plague
“The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, ‘Was I thin at that time or fat?’ And it doesn’t seem to let up.” —Felicity Huffman.
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Janet Turpin Myers: What happened to our optimism?
“Why doesn’t anyone go to the moon anymore? What happened to our optimism?”—Janet Turpin Myers.
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Steven Magee: Relatively easy object
“The moon is considered a relatively easy object to land humans on, everything else is much harder by orders of magnitude. It is the reason why we have not been to Mars and will likely never go there successfully with humans.”—Steven Magee.
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Greta Thurnberg: You don’t listen to the science
“You don’t listen to the science because you are only interested in solutions that will enable you to carry on like before. Like now. And those answers don’t exist any more. Because you did not act in time.” —Greta Thurnberg.
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David Packard: Take risks
“Take risks. Ask big questions. Dont be afraid to make mistakes, if you dont make mistakes, youre not reaching far enough.”—David Packard.
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Kiran Nagarkar: Principle of randomness
“As you sow, so shall you reap has a neat ring to it but you are making a grievous mistake if you put your faith in that kind of cheap sentiment. There are no just deserts. The wages of sin are not necessarily hell and the path of goodness is often lined with treachery for…
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Dan Rockwell: Toxic employees
“Toxic employees don’t: Acknowledge failure. Extend forgiveness. Offer an apology. Toxic employees allow you to fail so they look good. Toxic employees throw you under the bus and make it look like they’re helping.” —Dan Rockwell.
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Robert Mugabe: Lesser human beings
“We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.” —Robert Mugabe.
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Amrita Pritam: Denying his own subconscious
“When a man denies the power of women, he is denying his own subconscious.” —Amrita Pritam.
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Philip K Dick: Take the consequences
“This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.” —Philip K Dick.
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Philip K Dick: Serious matters
“Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.” —Philip K Dick.
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Simon Sinek: Time spent fixing the past
“Time spent fixing the past takes time away from building the future.” —Simon Sinek.
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Sandra Brown: Inside doesn’t change
“People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn’t change.”—Sandra Brown
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Paul Sweeney: Patience
“How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?”—Paul Sweeney.
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Robert M Pirsig: Dogmas, goals in doubt
“When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kind of dogmas or goals, it’s always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.” —-Robert M. Pirsig.
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Warren Buffett: First-class management
“What we really like at Berkshire is buying good-sized to very large first-class businesses with first-class management and just sitting there. Because the nice thing about that is you don’t have go from flower to flower. You can just sit there and watch them produce more and more every year and give you capital and…
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Socrates: Tiresome company
“Forgetfulness in the learner’s souls, because they will not use their memories … they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom with the reality” —– Socrates, 5th Century, BCE.
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Hunt and Thomas: Like painting
“In some ways, programming is like painting. You start with a blank canvas and certain basic raw materials. You use a combination of science, art, and craft to determine what to do with them.” —Andrew Hunt and Dave Thomas.
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Amit Trivedi: Future
“The only thing I cannot predict is the future.”—Amit Trivedi,Riding The Roller Coaster: Lessons from financial market cycles we repeatedly forget.
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Gautama Buddha: Forest
“The forest is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demands for its sustenance and extends generously the products of its life activity; it affords protection to all beings, offering shade even to the axe-man who destroys it.” -Gautama Buddha.
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William O Douglas: Freedom of movement
“Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society — once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.” —William O Douglas.
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Chuck Palahniuk: More American
“The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.”—Chuck Palahniuk.
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Isaiah Washington: Term ‘black’
“I hate the term ‘black’ because it doesn’t bring to life who we are as a people. The term ‘black’ has more negative synonyms than the term white.” —Isaiah Washington.
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Clare Mackintosh: How fast can you run?
“How fast can you run? When you really have to? In heels and a work skirt, with your bag banging against your side: how fast? When you’re late for your train and you have to get home, and you race down the platform with seconds to spare: how fast can you run? What if it…
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Shane Parrish: You miss what is true
“When you focus on what you’d prefer to be true, you miss what is true.” —Shane Parrish.
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Hermann Hesse: Wisdom
“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else … Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”—Hermann Hesse.
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John Wooden: With your ability
“Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.” —John Wooden.
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Dan Rockwell: One hour project
“Determine to spend one hour a day only using language that builds up people and teams. No criticism allowed for one hour. If you’re brave, try it for a morning. Don’t hide in your office for your one hour project.” —Dan Rockwell.
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Angela Saini: Feminism and racism
“After a recent book talk, a fan of Inferior told me she probably wouldn’t read Superior because it would have little relevance to her. It’s a comment that affected me. May I remind you that you can’t expect men to care about feminism if white feminists can’t care about racism.” —Angela Saini.
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Simon Sinek: Ultimate value
“The ultimate value of personal growth work is not to feel better about ourselves but to contribute to how those around us feel about themselves.” —Simon Sinek.
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Roger Ebert: Research on the web
“Doing research on the web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.” – —Roger Ebert.
