Ed Seykota Quotes

Traders and Surfers both have to deal with feelings of missing out on the small ones, until the big one comes along. They also have to deal with feelings of staying with the big one.

Ed Seykota

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• I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Men
  • Home
  • Remember

• Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Logic
  • Gracious

• The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Law
  • Become
  • Gravity

• In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • You
  • Everything
  • Tolerance

• I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Peace

• 'Bramhotsavam' is a celebration of families, life and togetherness. It's a film I hold close to my heart.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Celebration

• I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• I was always the weirdo at school.

  

  Karen Elson
  • School
  • Always
  • Weirdo

• Pat Buchanan likes to say we're in a culture war. The Civil War was a culture war, and brothers killed brothers. I wonder if they avoided dinner conversation about politics. What if this culture war turned into a real war? I'd look back on that dinner and wish that I'd ordered a side of argument.6

  

  Ze Frank
  • Real
  • War
  • Culture

• Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk?

  

  Alice Walker
  • Trying
  • Attention
  • Dance

• I think extreme heterosexuality is a perversion.

  

  Margaret Mead

• My real priorities were my family - my kids and Bruce - and my work with the E Street Band.

  

  Patti Scialfa
  • Work
  • Real
  • Family

• There's always something happening in pretty much every moment of every scene of everything I've ever worked on in longform that's not being expressed or acknowledged.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Pretty

• We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Done
  • Progress
  • Option

• What if everything I thought was wrong with me was actually right with me? You have to have the courage to show who you are to the world.

  

  Lauren Tom
  • World
  • Courage

• I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far.

  

  Ellen Burstyn
  • Work
  • Children

• It's important to me that my songs actually make sense. So often, I turn on the radio, and I have no idea what the people are singing about. It may sound good, but when you listen, they're just saying words that rhyme. It's another song about nothing.

  

  Mike Posner
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immoveable from surprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party, and spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least of perfect civility.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Appearance
  • Sight
  • Avoid

• I will direct one day, but I have a feeling that it will be very limited.

  

  John Travolta
  • Feeling
  • Feelings
  • Direct

• Let us say I am something like a witch, and something like a jester, and something like a mother.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Mother
  • Witch
  • Jester

• Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• Traders and Surfers both have to deal with feelings of missing out on the small ones, until the big one comes along. They also have to deal with feelings of staying with the big one.

  

  Ed Seykota
  • Feelings
  • Missing
  • Deals