Ed Seykota Quotes

It’s all about sticking to your plan and experiencing feelings as they arise. If you are unwilling to feel your feelings, the temptation is to avoid them by jumping off your system

Ed Seykota

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• If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Heart

• All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just clearly sociopathic, because they're not. It's interesting to explore the shadings and nuances within a person. Those feelings exist within more human beings than people may want to acknowledge.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • May
  • Interesting

• Music is what our feelings sound like.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Music
  • Feelings
  • Sound

• It feels as if I never get my just due.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Never
  • Feels
  • Just

• Danny Ferry did a very good job when he was here and put the franchise up to a certain level, as did Mike Brown, and his contract had ended after five years, and, ultimately, both sides decided they wanted to do other things. No hard feelings at all there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Up
  • Good
  • Job

• Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Temptation

• 'People will challenge you, question you, try to get you off track. Don't listen to the temptation to act out of character.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People
  • Character
  • Question

• It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • Work
  • Decision
  • Temptation

• Sharpe wanted to be liked by the men under his command. He was tempted to believe that if he was friendly and approachable, reasonable and kind, then his men would follow him more willingly. But kindness was not the wellspring of loyalty and he knew the temptation had to be resisted.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Kindness

• To hear is to doubt, to see is to be deceived, but to feel is to believe.

  

  Ed Parker
  • Believe
  • Doubt
  • Feels

• How could I have known how much it meant for her to see a patch of blue sky, to observe the flying seagulls, or how important that chestnut tree was to her, when she had never shown an interest in nature before. But once she felt like a caged bird, how she longed for it. Even just the thought of the open air gave her comfort, but she kept all these feelings to herself.

  

  Otto Frank
  • Important
  • She
  • Nature

• Let's say I'm at a party and I don't like the feeling I'm getting, I'll just leave. Why do I have to be there?

  

  Aaron Bruno
  • Why
  • Feeling
  • Party

• And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • World
  • Power
  • Courage

• I ain't no drinking man, but temptation got the best of me.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Men
  • Drug
  • Drinking

• I'm kind of putting my toe back in the water and seeing how it feels. We're going to be doing stuff we haven't done for years and years and years. So I'm looking forward to seeing how this stuff flies.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Done
  • Water
  • Feels

• I feel like when I really did my research, I both came to hate Nancy Reagan more.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Hate
  • Feels
  • Research

• I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Men
  • Feels
  • Gay

• I think that being vulnerable is about feeling helpless, or powerless... it's about allowing myself to be in a place where I could be hurt.

  

  Sadie Calvano
  • Thinking
  • Feeling
  • Hurt

• I always think I'm lazy, maybe I could do better, I could make more effort and I always have the feeling that there is a glass wall that I cannot get through. But maybe when I get through, then it's over.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Thinking
  • Effort
  • Feelings

• It's maybe a good thing to try to make music that feels reassuring in some ways - something that's got a good feeling, a good vibe about it.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Trying
  • Feelings
  • Reassuring

• I'm looking California, And feeling Minnesota...

  

  Chris Cornell Audioslave
  • Life
  • Feelings
  • California

• I'm so language-based and I'm so about communicating, and my art has always been very audience-based, and very about being functional and communicating something, and about feeling like I have to be heard.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Art
  • Feelings
  • Audience

• Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion.

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Book
  • Cushion

• It’s all about sticking to your plan and experiencing feelings as they arise. If you are unwilling to feel your feelings, the temptation is to avoid them by jumping off your system

  

  Ed Seykota
  • Feelings
  • Feels
  • Temptation