Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Steven Magee: Laser
“If a streetlight can make you sick, one can only wonder what exposure to a very high powered industrial LASER can do to you.”—Steven Magee.
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Albert Einstein: Attention it deserves
“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.” —-Albert Einstein.
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Francis Alys: Eye of the tornado
“In the eye of the tornado, there’s no more high and low, no floor and sky.” —Francis Alys.
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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan: Brute in us
“If he does not fight, it is not because he rejects all fighting as futile, but because he has finished his fights. He has overcome all dissensions between himself and the world and is now at rest… We shall have wars and soldiers so long as the brute in us is untamed.” —Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.
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Baltasar Grecian: Aspire to be a hero
“Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.” —Baltasar Gracian.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Eat their own cooking
“I believe that forcing researchers to eat their own cooking whenever possible solves a serious problem in science.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Anonymous: Encouraged people
“Encouraged people achieve the best; dominated people achieve second best; neglected people achieve the least.” —Anonymous.
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Dan Rockwell: Complainers
“Complainers never complain about the stupid things THEY do. The difference between complaining and responsibility is solution.” —Dan Rockwell.
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Roy Carlson: Longer
“The sooner you start to code, the longer the program will take.” – Roy Carlson.
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Kristen Stewart: Being famous
“The strangest part about being famous is you don’t get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.” —Kristen Stewart.
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Lata Mangeshkar: Playback singing
“I think playback singing has a lot to do with voice acting. I would suggest to all the youngsters to understand the character, situation, and the story behind the songs. That is when you can add soul to the rendition which, I think, is missing in today’s music.” —Lata Mangeshkar.
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Maria Shriver: How you handle your issues
“I think everybody has tragedy in their life. Everybody has hurdles in their life. Everybody has tough things to overcome. My kids say to me, ‘This isn’t fair.’ I said, ‘Life isn’t fair.’ Everybody has their issues. It’s how you handle your issues that distinguishes you.” —Maria Shriver.
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Peter Lindbergh: Fashion photography
“Fashion photography should say something about the stability of a certain time you live in or what kind of women you like. The most interesting thing is not what they’re wearing but who they are.” —Peter Lindbergh.
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Michael Lewis: What you fail to imagine
“You might have good reason to pray for a tornado, whether it comes in the shape of swirling winds, or a politician. You imagine the thing doing the damage you would like to see done, and no more. It’s what you fail to imagine that kills you.” —Michael Lewis.
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Damon Wayans: Shame on you
“Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you’re the one who stops yourself.”—-Damon Wayans.
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Henry George: Progressive societies
“Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.” —Henry George, economist, journalist, and philosopher.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs: Sometimes fatal
“…it never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.” —Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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Maria Montessori: Imagination
“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.” – – – Maria Montessori.
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Simon Sinek: Group dynamics
“Instead of expending energy to fit into the group, it’s better to expend energy to find the group in which we fit.” —Simon Sinek.
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Ernest Lord Rutherford: Better experiment
“If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.” —Ernest Lord Rutherford.
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Warren Buffett: Investment success
“Investment success depends on buying into the right businesses at the right price. And you have to know how to value businesses, and you have to have an attitude that divorces you from being influenced by the market.” —Warren Buffett.
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Michael Jackson: We must still dare
“In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.” —-Michael Jackson.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Controversial
“Someone with a high public presence who is controversial and takes risks for his opinion is less likely to be a bullshit vendor.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Simon Sinek: Movement
“A movement only exists when people are inspired to move, to do something, to make the cause their own.” —Simon Sinek.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Too zealous
“Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (28 Aug 1749-1832).
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Simon Sinek: What we can see
“We should never let reality interfere with our dreams. Reality can’t see what we can see.” —Simon Sinek.
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Lyndon Johnson: Ours to win or lose
“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” —Lyndon Johnson.
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Simon Sinek: Accept it when it’s offered
“We all understand the importance of asking for help, but those who achieve big things are the ones who accept it when it’s offered.” —Simon Sinek.
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Warren Buffett: We look to the business
“If we could guess successfully a high percentage of the time where the stock market was going to go, we would do nothing but play the S&P futures market. There wouldn’t be any reason to look at businesses and stocks. It’s just not our game. What we see when we look at the stock market…
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C S Lewis: Pride
“As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.” —C S Lewis.
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Cassie Ventura: People’s opinions
“There’s a fine line between saying, You can’t tell me what I can and can’t do, and taking on board people’s opinions.” —Cassie Ventura.
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Taslima Nasrin: Fundamentalism
“The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.” —Taslima Nasrin.
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William Wilberforce: Faith
“I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives.” —William Wilberforce.
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Simon Sinek: Being authentic
“To be authentic is to be at peace with your imperfections.” —Simon Sinek.
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Warren Buffett: Foreign competition
“We don’t try to buy our businesses with thoughts much of world trends. We certainly think in terms of foreign competition. I mean, we do not want to buy into a business that has a very high labor content and that has a product that can be shipped in from abroad very easily…. You do…
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Warren Buffett: Right CEO
“The job of the board of directors is to have the right CEO. I mean, if you’ve got the right CEO, 90 percent of it takes care of itself. If you were the director of Cap Cities and you had Tom Murphy as the CEO, case closed. It was all you needed. And if you…
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Susan Cooper: All knowledge is secret
“All knowledge is sacred, but it should not be secret.” —Susan Cooper, writer.
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Simon Sinek: Probably not that important
“If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.” —Simon Sinek.
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Ray Bradbury: Books you burn
“Do you ever read any of the books you burn?” “That’s against the law!” “Oh. Of course.” -Ray Bradbury, science-fiction writer.
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Ray Bradbury: Don’t think
“Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.” —Ray Bradbury.
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Simon Sinek: Accountability
“Accountability is never to a number. Accountability is always to a person.” —Simon Sinek.
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Carl Jung: Unconscious conscious
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” —Carl Jung.
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Alicia Witt: Don’t “normalize” yourself
‘I have no respect for people who deliberately try to be weird to attract attention, but if that’s who you honestly are, you shouldn’t try to “normalize” yourself.’ —Alicia Witt.
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G K Chesterton: Explosions
“A man making experiments in chemistry must expect chemical explosions, and a man making experiments in ethics must expect ethical explosions.” —G K Chesterton.
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Saint Francis de Sales: Calm spirit
“Never be in a hurry, do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.” —Saint Francis de Sales.
