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Atal Bihari Vajpayee: Equanimity
“Victory and defeat are a part of life, which are to be viewed with equanimity.” —Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
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Sean Penn: Fake
“When everything gets answered, it’s fake.” —Sean Penn.
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Aretha Franklin: Losing weight
“I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That’s the hardest thing more than anything else.” —Aretha Franklin.
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Thich Nhat Hanh: Profit from it
“If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it.” —Thich Nhat Hanh, monk and peace activist.
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Charles Spurgeon: No brains
“He who does not read, will not be read, he who does not quote will not be quoted and he who refuses to use the thoughts of another man’s brains proves that he himself has no brains.” — Charles Spurgeon.
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C S Lewis: Humility
“Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue.” —C S Lewis, The Problem of Pain.
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John Paul Jones: Fear and faith
“If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.” — John Paul Jones.
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Charlie Munger: Competency
“Competency is a relative concept…. What I needed to get ahead was to compete against idiots, and luckily there’s a large supply.” —Charlie Munger.
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Brian Tracy: Consequence
“Every behavior you participate in will have a consequence.” — Brian Tracy.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Routine
“Any work you do in the comfort of a routine risks being taken over by a robot.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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G K Chesterton: Planet of lunatics
“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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Steve Brown: Freedom and joy
“You ought to live your life with such freedom and joy that uptight Christians will doubt your salvation.” ― Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom.
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James Cameron: Curiosity
“Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own.” —James Cameron.
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Alejandro G Inarritu: Illegal
“There is no human being who, as a result of desiring to build a better life, should be named or declared illegal.” —Alejandro G. Inarritu, film director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (b. 15 Aug 1963).
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Walter Savage Landor: Ambition
“Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.” —Walter Savage Landor.
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Warren Buffett: Buy a good business
“I’ve always said that the way to get a reputation for being a good businessman is to buy a good business…. It’s much easier than taking a lousy business…and showing how wonderful you are at it, because I haven’t seen that done very often.” —Warren Buffett.
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Simon Sinek: Giving
“Giving doesn’t mean that we don’t ask for help. Giving means that we ask for help so that we can better give to others.” —Simon Sinek.
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Bryan Magee: Banquet of philosophy
“As for scholars, I respect their labour and have drawn great benefits from it, but the fact is that at the banquet of philosophy they are neither the cooks nor the gourmets but the waiters that run between the two.” —Bryan Magee.
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Paulo Coelho: Nothing more dangerous
“Nothing is more dangerous than not accepting love relationships that are broken off, work that is promised but there is no starting date, decisions that are always put off waiting for the ‘ideal moment’. But before a new chapter is begun, the old one has to be finished.” —Paulo Coelho.
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Anthony Anderson: Set your heights beyond
“Set your heights more than what you see around you, see beyond.” —Anthony Anderson.
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William Makepeace Thackeray: Unreasonably
“People hate as they love, unreasonably.” —William Makepeace Thackeray, novelist (18 Jul 1811-1863).
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G K Chesterton: Turns the lock
“A key has no logic to its shape. Its logic is: it turns the lock.” — G.K. Chesterton.
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Simon Sinek: Perception
“The truth of most truths is that they are perception and not, in fact, true.” —Simon Sinek.
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John Galsworthy: Untidy
“The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.” —-John Galsworthy, author, Nobel laureate.
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G K Chesterton: Human dignity and rights
“When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.” —G K Chesterton.
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Danielle Steele: Gift forever
“Maybe some people just aren’t meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It’s like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that’s why they’re here. You’ll have that gift forever.” —Danielle Steele.
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John C Maxwell: Affirmation and praise
“People must have affirmation and praise in order to maintain a high level of performance. Withholding negative or critical comments is not nearly as important as giving positive input through compliments and praise.” ― John C. Maxwell.
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Yanni: Passion
“All you need is passion. If you have a passion for something, you’ll create the talent.” —Yanni.
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Jane Smiley: Two lives
“A novelist has two lives—a reading and writing life, and a lived life. He or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.” —Jane Smiley.
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E B White: Disagreement
“There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.” —E. B. White.
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Boethius: Chance
“Chance, too, which seems to rush along with slack reins, is bridled and governed by Law.” — Boethius (480-524).
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Changing minds
“You are more likely to change your mind from a bad argument from someone on your initial side than a good argument from someone on the other side.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Felix Adler: In a thousand voices
“The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.” —Felix Adler.
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John Herschel: Last existence of society
“In whatever state of knowledge we may conceive man to be placed, his progress towards a yet higher state need never fear a check, but must continue till the last existence of society.” —John Herschel, mathematician, astronomer and chemist.
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C S Lewis: Incomplete delight
“It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.” —C S Lewis.
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G K Chesterton: Drinking
“Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.” —G K Chesterton.
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Hans Urs von Balthasar: Gift to God
“What you are is God’s gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.” —Hans Urs von Balthasar.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Status of recipient
“We define ‘rude’ less by the words used than by the status of the recipient.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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Tony Kushner: Every student needs someone
‘Every student needs someone who says, simply, “You mean something. You count.”‘ – – -Tony Kushner, playwright (b. 16 Jul 1956).
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John C Maxwell: Big dream, bad team
“Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.” – – —John C. Maxwell.
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G K Chesterton: Religious liberty
“Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.” —G K Chesterton.
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C S Lewis: God’s love
“God’s love, far from being caused by goodness in the object, causes all the goodness which the object has, loving it first into existence, and then into real lovability.” —C S Lewis.
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Marilyn vos Savant: Wisdom
“To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.” —Marilyn vos Savant.
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Michael Macri: Integrity
“You cannot control others, but you can always choose whether their actions affect your integrity. ” ― Michael Macri.
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G K Chesterton: Servile State
‘I do not regard the Servile State marching upon us as “the inevitable outcome of industrial laws.” I regard it as the inevitable outcome of talking tosh about something nice happening somehow some day, while our masters are busily building the walls of the Slave Compound round us.’ —G K Chesterton.
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Leonard Ravenhill: Why?
“Why do we expect to be better treated in this world than Jesus was?” —Leonard Ravenhill.
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John Keats: Passions and self-interests
“The worst of Men are those whose self-interests are their passions. The next those whose passions are their self-interests.” —John Keats.
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Daniel Kahneman: No sunk costs
“When I work I have no sunk costs. I like changing my mind. Some people really don’t like it but for me changing my mind is a thrill. It’s an indication that I’m learning something. So I have no sunk costs in the sense that I can walk away from an idea that I’ve worked…
