Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Sharat Chander: Community success
“Community success isn’t just rooted in agreement, but also in hearing, understanding and accepting differences. Spirited debate is healthy but should always be professional, open-minded and sincere.” —Sharat Chander.
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Dan Rockwell: Humility
“Humility allows for learning, growing, and improvement.” “A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.” —Alexander Pope. “Bigheads can’t improve because they can’t be wrong.” —Dan Rockwell.
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Cass Elliot: Get involved in politics
“I think everybody who has a brain should get involved in politics. Working within. Not criticizing it from the outside. Become an active participant, no matter how feeble you think the effort is.” —Cass Elliot, singer.
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Ernest Hemingway: True nobility
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.”—Ernest Hemingway.
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Laird Hamilton: Worst enemy
“Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your two ears.”~Laird Hamilton.
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C S Lewis: Unscrupulous
“In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere….God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.” —C. S. Lewis.
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Leon Jaworski: Competent extremist
“I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.”—Leon Jaworski.
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Steve McConnell: Error-free
“It’s hard enough to find an error in your code when you’re looking for it; it’s even harder when you’ve assumed your code is error-free.”—Steve McConnell.
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John Wooden: No substitute for hard work
“There is no substitute for hard work. If you’re looking for the easy way, if you’re looking for the trick, you might get by for a while, but you will not be developing the talents that lie within you. There is simply no substitute for work.”—John Wooden.
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Simon Sinek: Change
“People don’t fear change. People fear sudden change. People fear revolutions. People don’t fear evolutions.”—Simon Sinek.
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William Carlos Williams: What power has love but forgiveness?
“What power has love but forgiveness?” —William Carlos Williams, poet (17 Sep 1883-1963).
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Vinita Dawra Nangia: Walk with change
“The only happy and relevant people are those who have learnt to walk with change.”—Vinita Dawra Nangia.
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Cornelia Funke: Stories
“Stories never really end…even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don’t end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”—Cornelia Funke.
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Charlie Munger: Profit sitting in the yard
“We tend to prefer the business which drowns in cash. It just makes so much money that one of the main principles of owning it is you have all this cash coming in. There are other businesses, like the construction equipment business of my old friend John Anderson. And he used to say about his…
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Lionel Shriver: Ideal rogues
“For storytellers, financiers make ideal rogues. The easiest way to make characters unappealing is to make them rich – shorthand for spoiled, picky, superior, and cold-hearted.”—Lionel Shriver.
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Nathan W Dougherty: Ideal engineer
“The ideal engineer is a composite … He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer; but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems.”—-Nathan W. Dougherty, American civil engineer.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Bull***tter
“I am never bothered by normal people; it is the bull***tter in the intellectual profession who bothers me.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Skin in the Game.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Zero-sum
‘People are brainwashed to not realize that so many “noble” pursuits (academia, service, anything where one is paid with “honors”) are zero-sum. And wealth pursuits, outside of rent seeking, aren’t zero-sum.’ —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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M F Husain: Instincts from my soul
“I only give expression to the instincts from my soul.”—M F Husain.
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Margaret Atwood: Fifty-two names
“The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.”—Margaret Atwood.
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Anaïs Nin: Destiny
“What we call our destiny is inside us. It is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it means we are free to change our destiny.”—Anaïs Nin.
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Indra Nooyi: No longer random
“When you assume negative intent, you’re angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.”Indra Nooyi.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Purify relations
‘My experience is that money and transactions purify relations; ideas and abstract matters like “recognition” and “credit” warp them, creating an atmosphere of perpetual rivalry.’—Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Antifragile.
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Simon Sinek: Trust
“Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear.”—Simon Sinek.
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Robert Michael Gates: Different paradigms
“Our conventional modernization programs seek a 99% solution in years. Stability and counterinsurgency missions – the wars we are in – requires 75% solutions in months. The challenge is whether in our bureaucracy and in our minds these two different paradigms can be made to coexist”—R. M. Gates.
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Dan Rockwell: Consequences of disrespect
“It might feel good to ‘put people in their place,’ but the consequences of disrespect aren’t worth the pleasures of feeling superior.”—Dan Rockwell.
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Daren Kagasoff: Figure out what you want
“Relationships are important, but stay focused on all the things that are important. Figure out what you want.”—Daren Kagasoff.
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David Attenborough: Extraordinary thing
“I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn ’til dusk, unless it’s a pigeon, which isn’t really wild, which might come and settle near them.”—David Attenborough.
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Agatha Christie: Curious thought
“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.” —Agatha Christie.
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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.
