John W. Rogers, Jr. Quotes

There's no statistical evidence that human beings have an ability to move in and out of the markets effectively. It's next to impossible.

John W. Rogers, Jr.

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• There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • People
  • Song
  • Singing

• The grass is always greener on the other side - until you get there and see it's AstroTurf. Symbols are never reality. Someone might have amassed material success and fame, but that doesn't mean they're happy. So, don't go judging a person's life by the cover.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Success

• Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Education
  • Attention
  • Never

• I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attention to it, you know, with three kids. I thought it was tragic when the Kyoto Protocol was killed by the U.S. It was sort of a call to action.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Kids
  • Action
  • Attention

• But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • History
  • Future
  • Change

• I'm an activist. I'm a proud activist. So I want to be someone who is pro-black and pro-Africa and still be somebody that has positive influence.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Black
  • Proud
  • Positive

• People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Different
  • Book

• I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the jazz music I love is there in my music.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Love
  • Dream

• By dedicating so much concentration to the issue of security, bilateral matters pass to a secondary level.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Security
  • Concentration

• I don't really like pants, man. I like tights. I'm not really a pants person. I choose not to wear pants.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Man
  • Like
  • Choose

• You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Up
  • Time
  • Confidence

• If you put yourself in a place where you're having to work at understanding something, then you keep yourself awake to all possible choices. How the body will look like in the future, the ethics of the body: those are questions that really fascinate me. Let's get the dialogue going.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Work
  • Future
  • Understanding

• You have to be realistic. I'd love to be more famous, have lots of people supporting me, people knowing my name, but I need a tennis racket or a golf club or to play football. Being a female, I don't stand a chance.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Love
  • Football

• The paths to the house I seek to make,But leave to those to come the house itself.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • House

• Bdelycleon: It is so that you may know only those who nourish you (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • May

• Let this always be plain to thee, that this piece of land is like any other; and that all things here are the same with all things on the top of a mountain, or on the sea-shore, or wherever thou chooses to be. For thou wilt find just what Plato says, Dwelling within the walls of the city as in a shepherd's fold on a mountain.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • City
  • Sea
  • Mountain

• I bequeath the republic to the republicans and not to the monarchists, and the work of social reform to the socialist and not to the middle class.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Work

• It’s no go my honey love, it’s no go my poppet;Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit.The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall for ever,But if you break the bloody glass you won’t hold up the weather.

  

  Louis MacNeice
  • Up
  • Work
  • Fall

• I remember on 'JAG,' Joe Jackson punched Stephen Culp and shattered his nose.

  

  David James Elliott
  • Remember

• Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time to come, by his own ability. But envy is the same grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill-fortune that may befall him.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Hope
  • Imagination
  • Emulation

• I'll never forget the catch he made to save the game.

  

  Don Larsen
  • Game

• Over unforced love, the gods themselves had no might.

  

  Poul Anderson

• There's no statistical evidence that human beings have an ability to move in and out of the markets effectively. It's next to impossible.

  

  John W. Rogers, Jr.