Ed Seykota Quotes

Win or lose, everybody gets what they want out of the market. Some people seem to like to lose, so they win by losing money.

Ed Seykota

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• My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Time
  • God
  • Man

• God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • God
  • Children
  • Care

• My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Children
  • She
  • Moving

• I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Memories
  • Special
  • Spectacle

• Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Good
  • Doing
  • Good Things

• Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Book
  • Sometimes
  • Useful

• Within the U.S., you could have argued that most people who watch 'Mad Men' would watch 'House of Cards.' But the viewing is much more on par with the large-scale mainstream things like 'The Walking Dead.' It was much younger than we thought.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • People
  • Men
  • House

• In all likelihood, you've been treated by a Muslim doctor or served by a Muslim waiter or worked beside a Muslim computer programmer. Even if you think, 'I don't know any Muslims,' it's probably not true.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • True
  • Think
  • Know

• Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes; blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent; blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Nature
  • Beautiful

• Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Problem
  • Ideas
  • Down

• The khaleesi seems the most fair.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Seems
  • Most
  • Fair

• I think that addiction is a very, very important thing that has to be treated, but has to be treated as a health problem and not as a police problem.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • Important
  • Health
  • Problem

• If I go to Hollywood, I will have to start all over again – which is fine and makes me humble.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Start
  • Humble
  • Hollywood

• Despite all these obstacles and bad security situation, I have the energy and the resolve to train, but my head is full of ideas and it distracts me, and I need to focus.

  

  Dana Hussein
  • Bad
  • Energy
  • Focus

• And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats,None knew so well as I:For he who lives more lives than oneMore deaths than one must die.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Die
  • Lives
  • Knew

• We went back, afterward, after the show was over that night, I took my kids backstage and said, 'You know what? I know my dad's songs...'

  

  Arlo Guthrie
  • Kids
  • Night
  • Dad

• Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • Writing

• I always have to have mascara; otherwise, I feel like I don't look awake enough. It's like, 'I have eyes now!'

  

  Megan Nicole
  • Eyes

• Crack used to be called freebase when white rich people did it. Then it got sold in batches, and white rich people were still doing it, and it was still called freebase. And then all of a sudden this guy named Ricky Freeway Ross started making it and he happened to be black, and- everything is political- and, then it turned into 'crack.'

  

  Courtney Love
  • People
  • Guy
  • Political

• I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Up
  • Day
  • Rest

• I didn't go in there and tell them I think you should move me, but I also understand the nature of this business.

  

  Anthony Davis
  • Business
  • Nature

• The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • People
  • Mean
  • Ideas

• Win or lose, everybody gets what they want out of the market. Some people seem to like to lose, so they win by losing money.

  

  Ed Seykota
  • People
  • Winning
  • Losing