Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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John Hall: Means of grace
“Kind words, kind looks, kind acts, and warm hand-shakes, – these are means of grace when men in trouble are fighting their unseen battles.” —John Hall, pastor (31 Jul 1829-1898).
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George Orwell: Foolish thoughts
“The English Language … becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.” —-Geroge Orwell.
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Ken Thompson: 1000 lines of code
“One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.” — Ken Thompson.
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Emily Bronte: Results
“If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.” —-Emily Bronte, novelist (30 Jul 1818-1848).
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Intellect without balls
“Intellect without balls is like a racecar without tires.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Emily Bronte: Tyrant
“The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.” —Emily Bronte.
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Simon Sinek: Art of leadership
“The art of leadership is about inspiring people to build something, not threatening to break something.” —Simon Sinek.
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Alexis de Tocqueville: Excel
“We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.” —Alexis de Tocqueville, statesman and historian (29 Jul 1805-1859).
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Thomas Merton: Sailing to the moon
“What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?” —Thomas Merton.
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Shirish Kunder: Aggression of fools
“The words of the wise will be silenced by the aggression of fools.” —Shirish Kunder.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Newspapers
“To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Jackie Kennedy: Brought about by words
“Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. . . All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.” —Jackie Kennedy.
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Vincent Canby: Television sets
“We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.” —Vincent Canby.
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Simon Sinek: Work-life safety
“We will only have work-life balance when we feel safe at home and feel safe at work.” —Simon Sinek.
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G K Chesterton: Birth control
“Modern people insist on talking about Birth Control when they mean less birth and no control.” —G K Chesterton.
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Buzz Williams: No excuses
“A coach can help you with your mistakes, but NOBODY can help you with your excuses.” -– Buzz Williams.
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Sandra Bullock: Fame
“Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster.” —Sandra Bullock.
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Eric Hoffer: When it is worth minding
“The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause. A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind…
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Josephine Tey: Lack of education
“Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.” —Josephine Tey.
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Amelia Earhart: Cake bakers
“So I accept these awards on behalf of the cake bakers and all of those other women who can do some things quite as important, if not more important, than flying, as well as in the name of women flying today.” —Amelia Earhart.
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Charlie Munger: Rare person
“If the business is good enough, it will carry a lousy manager. And the converse case, where a really good manager gets in a really lousy business, he’ll ordinarily have a very imperfect record. In other words, it’s a rare person that can take over a textile business, totally doomed—which is what Warren [Buffett] did…
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Cathy Song: This wonderful opportunity
“May all beings, seen and unseen, be well, happy, and peaceful, including ourselves.May there be peace in the world, peace in our hearts, peace in our minds.May we use this wonderful opportunity of human life to awaken.May we be grateful for wisdom and compassion,this infinite boundlessness that surrounds us,waiting to be used by us, to…
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Amelia Earhart: Decision to act
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life, and the procedure, the process is its own reward.” —Amelia Earhart.
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Natalie Shapero: And also with you
“The comet taught us how to watch the war.The comet contended that fireis romantic and recommended we each behold it alone,envisioning out there somewhere our nextlover, craning up at this same sky.Was the comet simply endeavoringto keep us divided, I asked it, and the cometdid not reply. Then we discovered the menwho wanted us deadwere…
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Raymond Thornton Chandler: Television
“Television’s perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don’t have to concentrate. You don’t have to react. You don’t have…
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Those who can’t do shouldn’t teach
‘The saying goes “those who can, do; those who can’t do, teach”. But I’ve shown that those who can’t do shouldn’t teach.’ —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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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.
