Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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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.
