William Eckhardt Quotes
I haven't seen much correlation between good trading and intelligence. Some outstanding traders are quite intelligent, but a few aren't. Many outstanding intelligent people are horrible traders. Average intelligence is enough. Beyond that, emotional makeup is more important.
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Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
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The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
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But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.
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It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
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Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.
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We are moving to a world where all content is encrypted all the time.
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In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors.
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I think I'm brave because I've made decisions based - I hope not entirely selfishly - on what I think is right for me to do next.
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I can't be alone.
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I haven't seen much correlation between good trading and intelligence. Some outstanding traders are quite intelligent, but a few aren't. Many outstanding intelligent people are horrible traders. Average intelligence is enough. Beyond that, emotional makeup is more important.
