Ed Seykota Quotes
Risk no more that you can afford to lose, and also risk enough so that a win is meaningful.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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I've had to work by myself at combines before and forced myself to work out alone all the way back to high school. You have to be self-motivated.
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I think it's highly likely that we'll continue to have high-performance graphics capability in living rooms. I'm not sure we're all going to put down our game controllers and pick up touch screens - which is a reasonable view, I'm just not sure I buy into it.
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Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like that, so I've kind of been obsessed with Fred and Ginger and Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen and Jaques Demy forever.
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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
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I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.
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Indeed, the Muslims have all the social evils of the Hindus and something more. That something more is the compulsory system of purdah for Muslim women. These burka women walking in the streets is one of the most hideous sights one can witness in India.
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What I like least about acting is that when you're only in one place, you're missing the other part of life.
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What sought they thus afar?Bright jewels of the mine,The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?They sought a faith's pure shrine.
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'Every apostle or disciple,' Mrs. Clarke says, 'as much as their running to follow they're savior-they're running just as hard to escape something else.'
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I think acting is therapeutic for me.
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If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!
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Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them enforced.
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I think as a standup performer you have to feel the audience. So the audience kind of dictates what they get, you know?
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I find that as long as I'm acting it doesn't matter if it's for TV, or a series or a short film. I always have fun no matter what I'm doing.
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Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.
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Silos and bureaucracy are well-oiled machines in corporate America, but they are ultimately perpetuated by individual behavior. If we start behaving differently, we can create change. In other words, shifting your focus onto the team - or the ship as a whole, not just yourself - will have meaningful impact.
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He said take out your maps, folks, here's where we're winning, here's where we're losing, here's what we have to do.
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If you put yourself in a place where you're having to work at understanding something, then you keep yourself awake to all possible choices. How the body will look like in the future, the ethics of the body: those are questions that really fascinate me. Let's get the dialogue going.
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With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.
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Risk no more that you can afford to lose, and also risk enough so that a win is meaningful.
