Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Molly Parker: Landscape
“The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.” —Molly Parker.
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Tony Kushner: Every student
‘Every student needs someone who says, simply, “You mean something. You count.”‘ -Tony Kushner, playwright (b. 16 Jul 1956).
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Katrina Kaif: It happens
“Every one has her own love life. Every one has a dream to get a perfect life partner. But this is not so easy in real life. In fact, one doesn’t love, it happens.” —Katrina Kaif.
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Dan Rockwell: Move people
“All leaders move people. Moving people begins when you understand them, not when they understand you.” —Dan Rockwell.
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Bill Parcells: Competitive atmosphere
“In a competitive atmosphere, to stay the same is to regress.” – Bill Parcells.
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C S Lewis: Mental pain
‘Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”‘ —C S Lewis.
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Pasquier Quesnel: Zeal
“Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.” —Pasquier Quesnel.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: General principle of antifragility
“The general principle of antifragility: it is much better to do things you cannot explain than explain things you cannot do.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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C S Lewis: Patronizing nonsense
“You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to…
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Fred Brooks: Strategic breakthrough
“Strategic breakthrough will come from redoing the representation of the data or tables. This is where the heart of your program lies. Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall be continued to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won’t [..]” – Fred Brooks.
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C S Lewis: Proud man
“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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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Push them to complain about you
“Never complain about your enemies. You can insult them, anger them, expose them, but never whine about them. Push them to complain about you.” —-Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Warren Buffett: One-foot and seven-foot bars
“We know how to step over one-foot bars. We don’t know how to jump over seven-foot bars. But we do know how to recognize, occasionally, what is a one-foot bar. And we know enough to stay away from the seven-foot bars, too.” —Warren Buffett.
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Charlie Munger: Comparative process
“When you’re trying to determine something like intrinsic value and margin of safety and so on, there’s no one easy method that could be simply mechanically applied by, say, a computer and make anybody who could punch the buttons rich. By definition, this is going to be a game which you play with multiple techniques…
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Frans Lanting: Biodiversity
“Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.” —Frans Lanting.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Enough of my own
“Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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Henry David Thoreau: Better alive than dead
“Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.” —Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (12 Jul 1817-1862).
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Max Jacob: Inexplicable
“Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn’t want to kill it.”. —Max Jacob.
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Simon Sinek: Delicate blend
“Pure pragmatism cannot imagine a bold future. Pure idealism cannot get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives innovation.” —Simon Sinek.
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E B White: Hard to plan the day
“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” —E.B. White, writer (11 Jul 1899-1985).
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Alice Munro: Perfectly satisfying
“Life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.” —Alice Munro, short-story writer and Nobel Prize winner (b. 10 Jul 1931).
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Glen B Alleman: Capabilities
“If we understand what Capabilities are needed to produce business value or fulfill a mission, we can then identify what technical or operational requirements are needed to deliver those capabilities.” — Glen B. Alleman.
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Warren Buffett: Human behaviour involved
“Markets will do crazy things over time. When Charlie and I were at Salomon, they’d always talk to us about five sigma events or six sigma events, and that’s fine if you’re talking about flipping coins, but it doesn’t mean anything when you get human behavior involved. And people do things that — intelligent people…
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Charlie Munger: Sigmas
“When people talk about sigmas, in terms of disaster potentialities in markets, they’re all crazy. They got the idea that bad results in markets would be predicted by Gaussian distributions. And the way they decided on that outcome was it made everything so easy to compute. They don’t follow Gaussian distributions. You have to believe…
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John Quincy Adams: You are a leader
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” —John Quincy Adams.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: People you don’t have to be nice to
“You are as good as how nice you are to people you don’t have to be nice to.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Complicated systems
“Don’t disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don’t understand their logic. Don’t pollute the planet. Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific ‘evidence’.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Pico Iyer: First step towards disaster
“Anything that makes us think of ourselves as the center of the world—whether infatuation or Instagram—is the first step towards disaster.” —Pico Iyer.
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John Calvin: Hope
“We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.” —John Calvin.
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Dan Rockwell: Positivity
“There’s no creativity in pointing out weakness. There’s no imagination in disagreement. There’s no innovation in explaining what can’t be done. There’s no added value in tearing someone down.” —Dan Rockwell.
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June Jordan: Fear of telling the truth
“As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth — whatever the truth may be — that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life.”…
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Jack White: Punished for it
“We weren’t afraid of success, we were afraid of being punished for it.” —Jack White.
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Jean de la Fontaine: Anyone entrusted with power
“Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.” —-Jean de la Fontaine, poet and fabulist (8 Jul 1621-1695).
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Trust
“Trust none of what you hear, half of what you read, most of what you see.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Eckhart Tolle: Polluting
“Are you polluting the world or cleaning up the mess? You are responsible for your inner space; nobody else is, just as you are responsible for the planet. As within, so without: If humans clear inner pollution, then they will also cease to create outer pollution.” —Eckhart Tolle.
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John D Rockefeller, Sr: Charity
“Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.” —John D Rockefeller, Sr.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Never from someone who says nothing
‘You can almost certainly extract a “yes” from someone who says “no” to you, never from someone who says nothing.’ —-Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Pico Iyer: In just the right way
“The young wish so eagerly to make their mark upon the world; their elders wish only to let the world leave their mark upon them—in just the right way.” —Pico Iyer.
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G K Chesterton: Anything except Christianity
“Opponents of Christianity will believe anything except Christianity.” —G K Chesterton.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: IQ testing
“IQ testing is like making cars compete in a racetrack, and use it to make claims about their ability to cross a dense forest (with unpaved roads) such as the Amazon.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Morally upright
“If you are trying to be liked by both the left and the right, you are a demagogue. If you don’t mind being hated by both, you are morally upright.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Warren Buffett: Past and future
“You don’t get paid for what’s already happened. You only get paid for what’s going to happen in the future. The past is only useful to you in the extent to which it gives you insights into the future, and sometimes the past doesn’t give you any insights into the future.” —Warren Buffett.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Flawed and imperfect
“Life is much, much easier when you treat all humans as flawed and imperfect, but flawed in quite different ways.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Jean Cocteau: Poet’s job
“Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet’s job. The rest is literature.” —Jean Cocteau, author and painter (5 Jul 1889-1963).
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Nathaniel Hawthorne: Human nature
“Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth.” —Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer…
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Type
“You may never know what type of person someone is unless they are given opportunities to violate moral or ethical codes.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Darrell Royal: Just a little behind
“There is no such thing as defeat except when it comes from within. As long as a person doesn’t admit he is defeated, he is not defeated – – – he’s just a little behind and isn’t through fighting.” –– Darrell Royal.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Start by walking very slowly
“To become a philosopher, start by walking very slowly.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
