Ed Seykota Quotes
Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off. So do fundamentalists.
Quotes to Explore
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When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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Any guy hates Valentine's Day. Even if you're in love, you can't win on Valentine's Day. If you're married, you can't win on Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is like the thing you want to avoid at all costs.
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I have no guitar technique.
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We're just like a regular family.
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I finally bought a gun because I said if I'm going to get it, I'm taking somebody with me.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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I'm not sure there are too many people who write what I write.
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The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.
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'It was the work of opportunists, crooks, thugs for their own self-gain and interest.'
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What we're saying to people is that every idea about ease-of-use, we can develop in software, for the PC, without asking them to buy new hardware, without asking them to throw away their old applications.
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And Seattle isn't really crazy anymore. It's a big dot-com city.
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My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way.
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The mystery of our union with God affected by the Eucharist, is a union more intimate than the human mind can conceive.
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And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.
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I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.
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What people have got to remember is that Sept. 11 happened in 2001 and not in 2003. It was planned under the presidency of Bill Clinton.
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Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off. So do fundamentalists.
