13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck Quotes

“One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause,’ said Robert Brault, quite correctly.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck

“The kindest word in the world is the unkind word left unsaid.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck

“Don’t be yourself. Be someone a little nicer!”
― Ashwin Sanghi, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck

“Harvard University psychologist William James summed it up beautifully. ‘The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.’ This”
― Ashwin Sanghi, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck

“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck

“A boy found a butterfly’s cocoon in his garden one day. Next day, he noticed that a small opening had appeared. For several hours, he watched patiently while the butterfly struggled to force itself out through the little hole. Then it stopped struggling, almost as if it could go no further. Deciding to help the butterfly, the boy used a pair of scissors to snip the remaining bit of the cocoon and the butterfly emerged easily. Something was rather strange though. The butterfly had a swollen body and shrivelled wings. The boy continued to wait expectantly, hoping that at any moment the butterfly’s wings would expand to support its body and the body would contract. Neither event happened. In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and deformed wings, never able to fly. What the boy in his kindness and haste did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the resultant struggle required for the butterfly to get out are Nature’s way of forcing fluid from the butterfly’s body into its wings so that it is ready for flight after achieving freedom from the cocoon. Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in life.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck

“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck

“Vipassana proponents always stress that if you are insulted by someone and get angry, the result is not the abuser’s fault. It is your fault because you choose to react.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck

“Entrepreneurs are not risk takers. They are calculated risk takers.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck

“Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in life.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck

“When you don’t know what to do, do nothing. Get quiet so you can hear the still, small voice, your inner GPS guiding you to true North.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck

“Luck hates loneliness. It’s almost impossible to be lucky alone,”
― Ashwin Sanghi, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck

“Albert Einstein, said, ‘The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck

“Happiness is the only thing that when you give it, you get it in return.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck

“the greater the positive deeds they put out in the universe, the better the chances of their attracting good luck.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck

“Words, of course, are the most powerful drug used by humanity,”
― Ashwin Sanghi, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck

“intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck

“Writer Leo Rosten famously quipped: ‘Money can’t buy happiness, but neither can poverty.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck

“A young musician asked Mozart, ‘Herr Mozart, it has been suggested to me that I write a symphony. Would you be good enough to tell me how to go about it?’ Mozart thought for a moment and gently suggested, ‘You are still too young to write symphonies. Why not try ballads first?’ ‘You wrote symphonies when you were ten years old,’ argued the young man indignantly. ‘Ah, yes, but I didn’t ask how,’ replied Mozart.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck

“success is about having what you want, but happiness is about wanting what you have.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck

“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck

“Comedian Milton Berle once said, ‘If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door!”
― Ashwin Sanghi, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck

“Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck

“one per cent bloody good luck’ is simply the ability to catch the ninety-nine per cent when it presents itself?”
― Ashwin Sanghi, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck

“In ancient Greece, Socrates was known to place a premium on knowledge. When an acquaintance visited the philosopher and began, ‘Do you know what I just heard about your friend?’ ‘Just wait for a moment,’ interrupted Socrates. ‘Before telling me anything more, I’d like you to pass a little test. It’s called the Triple Filter Test.’ ‘Triple filter?’ asked the acquaintance. ‘That’s right,’ said Socrates. ‘Before you tell me something about my friend, I wish to filter what you are about to say. The first filter is Truth. Have you ensured that what you are about to tell me is absolutely true?’ ‘No,’ replied the acquaintance. ‘I just heard about it and wanted to share it with you …’ ‘Fine,’ said Socrates. ‘So you cannot be sure whether the information is true or false. Let’s try the second filter, the filter of Goodness. Are you about to tell me something about my friend that is good?’ ‘No, actually …’ ‘So you want to share something that is bad about him. But you are not certain that it’s true. You may still pass the test because there is a third filter: the filter of Usefulness. Is what you wish to convey going to be useful to me?’ ‘No, I don’t think so …’ began the acquaintance. ‘Well,’ demanded Socrates, ‘if what you want to tell me is neither true nor good nor even useful, why tell it to me at all?”
― Ashwin Sanghi, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck

“The kindest word in the world is the unkind word left unsaid.’ Two”
― Ashwin Sanghi, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck

“Thomas Edison rightly observed, ‘We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck

“Lucky people are those who are able to see how lucky they are.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck

“Consider an event from the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, one of the world’s greatest military strategists: During a meeting, his subordinates informed Napoleon Bonaparte of a new general who was turning out to be extremely capable. The new man’s bravery, skill, determination and organizational capabilities were outlined for Napoleon in great detail. Napoleon waved his hand impatiently. ‘That’s all very well,’ said Napoleon. ‘But tell me: Is he lucky?’ Napoleon’s question may sound rather strange in our times, but he saw luck as a personal trait rather than an extraneous factor. A”
― Ashwin Sanghi, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck