Ed Seykota Quotes

It is a happy circumstance that when nature gives us true burning desires, she also gives us the means to satisfy them. Those who want to win and lack skill can get someone with skill to help them.

Ed Seykota

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• We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Information
  • Flow

• I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • English

• You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.

  

  Barry Mann
  • You
  • Accept
  • Rejection

• I know about lots of things that have nothing to do with being Asian, that you would never guess from looking at me. I know all about musical theater. I could go on 'Jeopardy!' and knock off the whole Broadway show tunes category. Also the whole Bible stories category.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Stories
  • Bible
  • Theater

• I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Different
  • Me
  • Influence

• I'm really boring. I get up early. I go to bed early. I don't smoke or drink. I mean, I'll eat a cupcake. I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Writing
  • Crazy
  • Person

• A lot happens in 20 years.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Years
  • Happens
  • Lot

• You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Good
  • Real
  • Learn

• We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Experience
  • Control
  • Choose

• Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Good
  • Opportunity
  • Challenge

• Well Ice H20 is my company that I plan to take to the next level with new artists, books, movies and so forth. It's more like a multimedia brand that I want to take to the next level and put some talented people on.

  

  Raekwon
  • People
  • Brand
  • Ice

• I never like seeing myself on screen.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Seeing

• Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.

  

  Ovid

• I went one afternoon to the church of my childhood and had a vision of what I must have really meant with 'Beat'… the vision of the word Beat as being to mean beatific... People began to call themselves beatniks, beats, jazzniks, bopniks, bugniks and finally I was called the 'avatar' of all this.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • People
  • Church
  • Vision

• You cannot be an actor like I am and not have been in some of the worst movies like I have. But I stand before you deeply honored, mighty grateful and just plain gobsmacked.

  

  James Earl Jones

• No one knows what an amazing spirit she was. She wasn't only a mother; she was a best friend.

  

  Bobbi Kristina Brown
  • She
  • Mother
  • Friend

• I'm a wonderful disaster. So are you. We're all a mess. We're in this culture that says take this pill and you'll be happy, go on this diet and you'll be thinner, have your teeth whitened, people will love you more.

  

  Emilio Estevez
  • People
  • Happy
  • Culture

• I am deeply troubled by Mylan's misclassification of the EpiPen as a generic drug.

  

  Amy Klobuchar
  • Drug

• Brothers and sisters, love the earth. Be true to the earth, and do not believe those seducers who look longingly to the world beyond, casting suspicion on this world. Jesus is the greatest friend of the earth-Jesus who again and again, in the original spirit of Judaism, proclaimed love for the soil and love for the land. "Blessed are the peacemakers," he said, "for they shall possess the earth."

  

  Eberhard Arnold
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Earth

• I don't listen to music, and I don't particularly watch television, so if anyone wants to come over and just hang out with me sitting at the table in silence, you know, eating a dish of rice... I don't get too many takers.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Music
  • Silence
  • Television

• When white-collar people get jobs, they sell not only their time and energy, but their personalities as well. They sell by the week, or month, their smiles and their kindly gestures, and they must practice that prompt repression of resentment and aggression.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • People
  • Time
  • Energy

• Great ambition is the passion of a great character.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Character
  • Passion
  • Ambition

• It is a happy circumstance that when nature gives us true burning desires, she also gives us the means to satisfy them. Those who want to win and lack skill can get someone with skill to help them.

  

  Ed Seykota
  • Desire
  • Mean
  • Winning