Edwin Lefevre Quotes
No man can always have adequate reasons for buying or selling stocks daily - or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play.
Quotes to Explore
-
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
-
I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
-
To me, form is not about scoring runs but how you feel about your game. Sometimes the runs are not there, but you know you are batting well, and that is good form for me.
-
Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
-
It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
-
Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?
-
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
-
I don't think you should limit what you read.
-
Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
-
Look at Loretta Lynn. Look at Jeannie C. Rily singing 'Harper Valley PTA' and Tammy Wynette singing about divorce. They were ahead of their times in a lot of ways.
-
It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
-
I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.
-
I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
-
I am, and remain, passionate about news.
-
I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater.
-
All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
-
We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we've made a lot of friends.
-
No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
-
I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.
-
Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
-
The heel is engineering in itself. This little thing that supports the human weight has to have a precise balance.
-
My idea of the modern Stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.
-
Some people would view Jackie Robinson as a very safe African-American, a docile figure who had a tendency to try to get along with everyone, and when you look at his history, you learn that he has this fire that allows him to take this punishment but also figure out savvy ways of giving it back.
-
No man can always have adequate reasons for buying or selling stocks daily - or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play.
