Ed Seykota Quotes
A losing trader can do little to transform himself into a winning trader. A losing trader is not going to want to transform himself. That's the kind of thing winning traders do.
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I think of myself as a cover girl. But I would never do some kind of cheesy magazine.
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.
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It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.
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Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.
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I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
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There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.
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Not all cops are bad, but this kind of harassment has been going on for years in the ghetto.
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Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
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I think an old-school Western would kind of be really up my alley and would be so fun, I'm so comfortable in that genre and around horses.
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I was happy to kind of always scoot under the radar.
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
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I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.
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I'm the kind of person who always wants more.
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I got pigeonholed a bit. When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted to be the kind of actress I became.
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You've got to be a good reader. So whatever genre that you're interested in, read a lot of books about it and it's better than any kind of writing class you'll ever take. You will absorb techniques and then in a lot of cases you can just start writing using the style of the book or the author that you admire and then your own style will emerge out of that. Be a diligent reader and then try to write seriously, professionally and approach everything in writing in a professional way.
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When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.
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What’s the worst thing I've stolen? Probably little pieces of other people’s lives. Where I’ve either wasted their time or hurt them in some way. That’s the worst thing you can steal, the time of other people. You just can’t get that back.
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Seek the truth. Tell the truth. Live in truth.
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You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.
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A losing trader can do little to transform himself into a winning trader. A losing trader is not going to want to transform himself. That's the kind of thing winning traders do.
