Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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…
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George Packer: Taste of disappointment
“At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.” —George Packer.
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Simon Sinek: What and why
“Those who know WHAT they do tend to work harder. Those who know WHY tend to work smarter.” —Simon Sinek.
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Edith Hamilton: To be educated
“It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought — that is to be educated.” —Edith Hamilton, educator…
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Josh Billings: Postage stamp
“Consider the postage stamp; its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.” — Josh Billings.
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Justin Kruger and David Dunning: Evaluate competence
“Skills that engender competence in a particular domain are often the very same skills necessary to evaluate competence in that domain one’s own or anyone else’s.”—Justin Kruger and David Dunning.
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Muqtada Al Sadr: No one has the right
“No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their…
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Carl R Rogers: Curious paradox
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” ― Carl R. Rogers.
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G K Chesterton: Command of Christ
“The command of Christ is impossible, but it is not insane; it is rather sanity preached to a planet of lunatics.” —G K Chesterton.
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T DeMarco: Reasonable projection
“The estimator’s charter is not to state what developers should do, but rather to provide a reasonable projection of what they will do.” –– T. DeMarco.
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Marilyn vos Savant: Observe
“To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.” —Marilyn vos Savant.
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Leo Fender: Easy to construct
“If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct.” —Leo Fender.
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Simon Sinek: What we believe
“Let’s stop talking about what we do and start talking about what we believe.” —Simon Sinek.
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P L Travers: Half his book
“A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.” —P.L. Travers, author (9 Aug 1899-1996).
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Mosteller, Fienberg and Bourke: Soft and sly
“Although we often hear that data speaks for themselves, their voices can be soft and sly. ” —- Frederick Mosteller, Stephen E. Fienberg, and Robert E. K. Bourke.
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John Dryden: Want of impudence
“Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.” —John Dryden.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Being nice
“Being nice counts the most when you are nice to people ignored by others.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Toni Morrison: Bruised and bleeding
“I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge – even wisdom. Like art.” —Toni Morrison.
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Sara Teasdale: Truth and youth
“When I can look Life in the eyes, / Grown calm and very coldly wise, / Life will have given me the Truth, / And taken in exchange — my youth.” —Sara Teasdale, poet (8 Aug 1884-1933).
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G K Chesterton: Get enough
“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.” —G K Chesterton.
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Shirish Kunder: Bad business
“Hate is bad business. You invest a lot of energy for no returns.” —-Shirish Kunder.
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G K Chesterton: One generation
“When all are sexless there will be equality. There will be no women and no men. There will be but a fraternity, free and equal. The only consoling thought is that it will endure but for one generation.” —G K Chesterton.
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Richard Pattis: Remove defective code
“When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.” —Richard Pattis.
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Shirish Kunder: You’re in love
“When you find someone’s angry face cute, you’re in love.” —Shirish Kunder.
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Aliza Izetbegovic: We will prevail
“I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn’t been kind to us, but, with the help of God, we will prevail.” —Alija Izetbegovic.
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Simon Sinek: Trust is like love
“Trust is like love. Both parties have to feel it before it really exists.” —Simon Sinek.
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James Randi: No amount of belief
“No amount of belief makes something a fact.” —James Randi, magician and skeptic.
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Martin Luther King: Nothing more dangerous
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” —- Martin Luther King.
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G K Chesterton: Mere blindness
“Birth Control is mere blindness; you are destroying Shakespeares and Bacons and other great geniuses, for all you know, by every act of contraception.” —G K Chesterton.
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James Randi: Distinct difference
“There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.” —-James Randi.
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John Kenneth Galbraith: Great financial mind
“The investing public is fascinated and captured by the great financial mind. That fascination derives, in turn, from the scale of the financial operations and the feeling that, with so much money involved, the mental resources behind them cannot be less. Only after the speculative collapse does the truth emerge. What was thought to be…
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Dr. Lawrence Chung: Failures will happen
“The only way to have a perfect system is to have perfect humans design and operate the systems. That is not possible. So failures will happen.” —Dr. Lawrence Chung.
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Alexander Fleming: Lone worker
“It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject, the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.” —Alexander Fleming.
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Simon Sinek: Reason, not just a place
“Give people a reason to come to work, not just a place to go to work.” —Simon Sinek.
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Wendell Berry: Downstream and upstream
“Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.” —Wendell Berry, farmer and author (b. 5 Aug 1934).
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Guy de Maupassant: Memory
“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.” —Guy de Maupassant.
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Ben Johnson: Negligent speech
“Negligent speech doth not only discredit the person of the Speaker, but it discrediteth the opinion of his reason and judgment; it discrediteth the force and uniformity of the matter, and substance.” —- Ben Johnson.
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G K Chesterton: Right is right
“Right is right, even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong about it.” —G K Chesterton.
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Marvin Bell: Rules
“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.” —Marvin Bell.
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James Baldwin: Criticize her perpetually
“I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” —James Baldwin, writer (2 Aug 1924-1987).
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Richard P Feynman: Reality
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.” — Richard P. Feynman, What do You Care What Other People Think?.
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Myrna Loy: Private in public
“I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.” —Myrna Loy.
