Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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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.
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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.
