"Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . ."

-- Michael Lewis

#Retrospect Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Financial Quotes

“I've always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory.”
“Yes, you're very very old But try to think of it as not being cursed After all, in a hostage situation You'd be released first!”
“The Roman Christian mythology (and theology) discourages the vice of licentiousness, and so this is better than the heathen, but it encourages bigotry, hypocrisy, cant, and many another vice which the older Mother of Abominations kept clear from.”
“Your smile is the most gorgeous curve on your body.”
“I love yoga because it's very calming for your body and your spirit. It gives you that meditative state, and its 90 minutes where you can get away from the world and just be, and exist in the moment. I need yoga. It's part of my life, and I can't imagine not doing it.”
“I think actors who know their job know that's how you do it. You don't show up and make people miserable. That poor grip who's standing there, he just wants to feed his family. He doesn't need to hear about your psychosis on life and love and death.”
“The thought has cheered me, and I'd like to hang onto that. Must protect my little pockets of happiness.”
“All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.”

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