Ed Seykota Quotes

My style is basically trend following, with some special pattern recognition and money management algorithms.

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• I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Life
  • God
  • Bad

• A busybody's work is never done.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Work
  • Done
  • Never

• I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Work
  • Think
  • Turn

• So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Art
  • America
  • High

• If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Never
  • Talking
  • Restaurant

• Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Job
  • Director
  • Elements

• I've always been attracted to action stuff.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Action
  • Always
  • Attracted

• When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'

  

  Pamela Nicholson
  • People
  • California
  • Say

• I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Taken
  • Like
  • Very

• What would be the political benefits to Obama of an amnesty? It could weld Hispanics to the Democratic Party, would be wildly popular with the ideological and Christian Left, and quietly welcomed by those Chamber-of-Commerce Republicans who have silently supported amnesty and secretly want immigration off the table in 2016.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Political
  • Party
  • Christian

• I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Life
  • Game
  • Success

• Nothing is better than waking up in the morning and being excited to go into work.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Up
  • Work
  • Morning

• Man, I'm a conspiracy theorist by nature. You can't experience the federal penal system and not be somewhat skeptical.

  

  T.I.
  • Experience
  • Nature
  • Man

• I try not to make it personal, and I don't care about partisan politics one way or the other.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Care
  • Politics
  • Try

• I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Great
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Nadine, honey is that you? Oh, Nadine, honey is that you? Seems like every time I see you Darling, you got something else to do

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Time

• The good thing about feature films is that the budgets tend to scale.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • Good

• Home is the center of life. It's the wellspring of personhood. It's where we say we're ourselves.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Life
  • Home

• Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls.

  

  Richard Scott Bakker
  • Good
  • Children
  • Small

• One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors.

  

  Jacques Chirac

• Alzheimer's is a horrible thing. Some people are naive about it. They think, 'Oh it's just your memory,' but my mother was in terrible pain. Your body closes down. She didn't know if she'd eaten or if she wanted to eat. She couldn't remember how to walk. Towards the end, she didn't know us. It came gradually, then it got worse.

  

  Bonnie Tyler
  • People
  • She
  • Remember

• In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.

  

  Molly Ringwald
  • Helping
  • Special
  • Determine

• Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.

  

  Georges Braque
  • Talking
  • Valuable
  • Incapable

• My style is basically trend following, with some special pattern recognition and money management algorithms.

  

  Ed Seykota
  • Style
  • Management
  • Special