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“I believe in carpe diem (seize the day). Learn how to live in the moment. Do not become a prisoner of the past or a hostage to the future. Who you are is rooted in the past; it shapes the way you think and act. But that cannot define your future. Be ready to move on, to abandon strategies that haven’t worked, and never allow the ‘sunk cost fallacy’ to influence business decisions.”
― Spreading Joy: How Joyalukkas Became the World's Favourite Jeweller
― Spreading Joy: How Joyalukkas Became the World's Favourite Jeweller
“So that’s why when I buy a new house—and there have been many (never underestimate a geographic)—it has to have a view. I want the sense that I can look down on safety, on someplace where someone is thinking of me, at a place where love is. Down there, somewhere in that valley, or in that vast ocean out there beyond the Pacific Coast Highway, on the gleaming primaries of the red-tail’s wings, that’s where parenting is.”
― Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing
― Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing
“To this day, the valuation report of 2007 sits in my office, reminding me that self-belief and aspiration are more valuable than resources.”
― Spreading Joy: How Joyalukkas Became the World's Favourite Jeweller
― Spreading Joy: How Joyalukkas Became the World's Favourite Jeweller
“Alexander II was known as the “Tsar-Liberator,” yet his murder became the preeminent objective of Russian revolutionaries. The assassins went to extraordinary lengths. Once, near Moscow, they purchased a building near the railway track and tunneled a gallery from the building under the track, where they planted a huge mine. The Tsar was saved when his train left Moscow in a different direction.”
― Nicholas and Alexandra: The Last Tsar and his Family
― Nicholas and Alexandra: The Last Tsar and his Family
“The doctor’s theory was that, in modern life, our ancient fight-or-flight mechanism was being triggered too frequently—in traffic jams, meetings with our bosses, etc.—and that this was contributing to the epidemic of heart disease. Even if the confrontations were themselves minor, our bodies didn’t know that; they reacted as if they were in kill-or-be-killed scenarios, releasing toxic stress chemicals into the bloodstream.”
― 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works - A True Story
― 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works - A True Story
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