Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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…
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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.
