Ed Seykota Quotes
Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off. So do fundamentalists.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
-
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.
-
Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
-
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.
-
I have no guitar technique.
-
We're just like a regular family.
-
I finally bought a gun because I said if I'm going to get it, I'm taking somebody with me.
-
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
-
I'm not sure there are too many people who write what I write.
-
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.
-
'It was the work of opportunists, crooks, thugs for their own self-gain and interest.'
-
And Seattle isn't really crazy anymore. It's a big dot-com city.
-
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.
-
I studied political science and international relations, so I never considered myself an artist.
-
I've always jealously guarded my feminine mystique. I've been married twice, and neither of my husbands has ever seen me put my face on.
-
I don't believe in depriving yourself of things you want.
-
The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.
-
People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
-
Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off. So do fundamentalists.
