Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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Simon Sinek: Honor of looking out for others
“We all have the luxury of looking out for ourselves. Leaders also have the honor of looking out for others.” —Simon Sinek.
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Edgar Guest: Rather see a sermon
“I’d rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I’d rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.” —Edgar Guest, poet.
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Bernard Sahlins: Truth about things
“Actually being funny is mostly telling the truth about things.” —Bernard Sahlins.
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Bram Cohen: Fix the problem you have
“The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want.” – Bram Cohen.
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Adam Arkin: Transcendent experiences
“We all look to have transcendent experiences that lift us out of the everyday, and fear is a good one. But, I think its the same reason why people want to laugh their heads off.” —Adam Arkin.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: What works
“By definition, what works cannot be irrational. ” —-Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Chris Pine: Programming
“Programming isn’t about what you know; it’s about what you can figure out.” —Chris Pine.
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Rosalyn Carter: Something I wanted to do
“I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did, so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.” —Rosalyn Carter.
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G K Chesterton: Imprudent
“It is obvious that all marriages are imprudent marriages; just as all births are imprudent births. If prudence is your main concern, or if (in other words) you are a coward, it is certainly better not to be married; and even better not to be born.” —G K Chesterton.
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Simon Sinek: People are still people
“We can learn about our future from our past because, regardless of technology or the speed of innovation, people are still people.”—Simon Sinek.
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H L Mencken: Dishonest, insane, intolerable
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” — H. L. Mencken.
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Shimon Peres: Try to be a moral person
“The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.” —Shimon Pères.
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Simon Sinek: Own private megaphone
“Your work is your own private megaphone to tell the world what you believe.” —Simon Sinek.
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David Dunning and Justin Kruger: Dunning-Kruger effect
‘The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which “people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it.” The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than in actuality; by contrast the highly skilled underrate their…
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G K Chesterton: Moment of passion
“You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.” —G K Chesterton.
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Glassy hearts
“I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.” —Letitia Elizabeth Landon.
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Simon Sinek: Leaders volunteer
“Leaders volunteer to go first into danger. Their willingness to sacrifice for us is the reason we’re inspired to follow.” —Simon Sinek.
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Felix Adler: Supreme Ethical Rule
“The Supreme Ethical Rule: Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.” —Felix Adler, professor, lecturer, and reformer.
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Warren Buffett: Fairly captive
“Money tends to be fairly captive, once it’s in a company. If you have a business that gets subnormal returns over time, there’s a big threshold in terms of either a takeover, or a proxy fight, or something like that to unleash the capital. So, money that’s tied up in an unprofitable business, or a…
