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“You have control over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. —Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, Meditations”
― Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy
― Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy
“Viktor Frankl, the Austrian psychologist, summarized it beautifully in the preface to his book Man’s Search for Meaning: “Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue…as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a course greater than oneself.”
― Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
― Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
“You know what happens when you play a country tune backwards? You get your girl and your truck back, you’re not drunk anymore and your hound dog comes back to life.”
― Pronto
― Pronto
“Since 1950, much of the good stuff in the plants we grow—protein, calcium, iron, vitamin C, to name just four—has declined by as much as one-third, a landmark 2004 study showed. Everything is becoming more like junk food. Even the protein content of bee pollen has dropped by a third.”
― The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
― The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
“The practice of deep-frying fish was brought to London and popularised by Sephardic Jewish refugees fleeing persecution in Spain and Portugal from the sixteenth century; its double act with chips dates to the 1860s, when Joseph Malin, a teenage Ashkenazi Jew from eastern Europe, abandoned his family rug-weaving business after a flash of inspiration inspired him to pair the two. He sold them on the street from a tray hung round his neck; success on the street led to a permanent shop in the East End.”
― Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
― Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
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