Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Chronic
“Injuries done to us by others tend to be acute; the self-inflicted ones tend to be chronic.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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G K Chesterton: Temptation
“Yielding to a temptation is like yielding to a blackmailer: you pay to be free, and find yourself the more enslaved.” —G K Chesterton.
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John Hall: Corporate party
“There’s one political party in this country, and that’s the corporate party.” —John Hall.
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Warren Buffett: Volatility is not a measure of risk
“Volatility is not a measure of risk…. Risk comes from the nature of certain kinds of businesses. It can be risky to be in some businesses just by the simple economics of the type of business you’re in, and it comes from not knowing what you’re doing. And if you understand the economics of the…
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Charlie Munger: Very smart people do very dumb things
“One of the reasons we’ve been able to do pretty well is that we early recognized that very smart people do very dumb things. And we tried to figure out why. And we also wanted to know who, so we could avoid them.” —Charlie Munger.
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Simon Sinek: Greatness
“Greatness doesn’t start with a market opportunity, it starts with a problem that needs solving. The opportunity comes from marketing the solution.” —Simon Sinek.
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Bill Belichick: Going down with that person
“You have to go with the person who you have the most confidence in, the most consistent. If it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work, but I’m going down with that person.” – Bill Belichick.
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Friedrich Nietzsche: First idea, the known
“Danger, disquiet, anxiety attend the unknown—the first instinct is to eliminate those distressing states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The first idea which explains that the unknown is in fact the known does so much good that one ‘holds it for true.’” —Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols.
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C S Lewis: Ourselves
“The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self–all your wishes and precautions–to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call ‘ourselves.’” —C S Lewis.
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Paulo Coelho: Loneliness
“Loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello.
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Shirish Kunder: Physical beauty
“Physical beauty is no achievement to be proud of. It’s just a lottery you have won.” —Shirish Kunder.
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Dave Cheney: Rewritten
“If software cannot be maintained, then it will be rewritten. ” – Dave Cheney.
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Neil Armstrong: Pilots
“Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying. Pilots generally take pride in a good landing, not in getting out of the vehicle.” —Neil Armstrong.
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William Wordsworth: Thousand times richer
“I loved her with the utmost love of which my soul is capable, and she is taken from me. Yet in the agony of my spirit in surrendering such a treasure, I feel a thousand times richer than if I had never possessed it.” William Wordsworth, after the death of his child.
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Matthew Prior: Taste and talk
“They never taste who always drink, They always talk, who never think.” —Matthew Prior.
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Natalie Wood: When he is a baby
“The only time a woman can really succeed in changing a man is when he is a baby.” —Natalie Wood.
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Pete Rose: Keep producing
“Creating success is tough. But keeping it is tougher. You have to keep producing, you can’t ever stop.” – Pete Rose.
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Kevin Eastman: Circles
“You should always be evaluating who you spend our time with. So much of our success is linked to the circles we travel in.” – Kevin Eastman.
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Simon Sinek: Infallibility
“Work hard to seem infallible and others will work to find our flaws. Admit our shortcomings and others will work to help us be infallible.” —Simon Sinek.
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Nick Saban: Two pains in life
“There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you’ll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment.” –– Nick Saban.
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G K Chesterton: Moral standard
“A moral standard must remain the same or it is not a moral standard.” —G K Chesterton.
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Paulo Coelho: Once, twice or thrice
“Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Asymmetry
“We humans are the victims of an asymmetry in the perception of random events. We attribute our successes to our skills, and our failures to external events outside our control, namely to randomness.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Wayne Hale: Emerging practices
“Practices don’t follow rules. Rules follow emerging practices.” —Wayne Hale, Former NASA Space Shuttle Flight Director.
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Dr. Charles Horace Mayo: Definition of a specialist
“The definition of a specialist as one who knows ‘more and more about less and less’ is good and true.” —Dr. Charles Horace Mayo.
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Dave Weinbaum: Make things happen
“Those who let things happen usually lose to those who make things happen.” – Dave Weinbaum.
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Rocky Colavito: Until it starts losing
“You can’t tell how much spirit a team has until it starts losing.” – Rocky Colavito.
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Inky Johnson: It’s a choice
“You can never make the same mistake twice because the second time you make it… It’s not a mistake, it’s a choice.” —Inky Johnson.
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William Makepeace Thackeray: Looking glass
“The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.” —William Makepeace Thackeray, novelist (18 Jul 1811-1863).
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Henry David Thoreau: Throw off sleep
“Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep”—Henry David Thoreau.
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Michael Porter: High-level continuity
“The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.” —Michael Porter.
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C S Lewis: Lust and desire
“Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.” —C S Lewis.
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G K Chesterton: Against the stream
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” —G K Chesterton.
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John Carmack: Elegant implementation
“Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.” – John Carmack.
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Pat Riley: Commitment
“There are only two options regarding commitment. You’re either IN or you’re OUT. There is no such thing as life in-between.” – Pat Riley.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Sign of weakness
“It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Simon Sinek: What matters
“It doesn’t matter how much we know. What matters is how clearly others can understand what we know.” —Simon Sinek.
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Richard Feynman: Teach it
“If you want to master something, teach it. The more you teach, the better you learn. Teaching is a powerful tool to learning.” —Richard Feynman.
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Rujuta Diwekar: Approval, not happiness
“What you are seeking after losing weight to fit into that dress is called approval. Don’t confuse it with happiness.” —Rujuta Diwekar.
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Morgan Wooten: Learn from both
“It’s often been said that you learn more from losing than you do from winning. I think, if you’re wise, you learn from both.” -– Morgan Wooten.
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Warren Buffett: Something in the way you’re programmed
“The biggest thing, too, is to have something in the way you’re programmed so that you don’t ever do anything where you can lose a lot. I mean, our best ideas have not been better than other people’s best ideas, but we’ve never had a lot of things that pulled us way back. So we…
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Hannah Senesh: Way for humankind
“There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark. They light the way for humankind.” —Hannah Senesh, poet, playwright, and paratrooper…
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Mike Smith: Culture
“Culture is defined and created from the top down, but it comes to life from the bottom up.” -– Mike Smith.
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G K Chesterton: Furiously awake to evil
“Men are never more awake to the good in the world than when they are furiously awake to the evil in the world.” —G K Chesterton.
