Edwin Lefevre Quotes

In fact, of all hoodoos in Wall Street I think the resolve to induce the stock market to act as a fairy godmother is the busiest and most persistent.

Edwin Lefevre

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• You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Opportunities

• It's enough now of being unhealthy. I have a family, and I owe it to them to be as healthy as I can. A great sense of clarity comes when you have a child. It shows the important stuff to be important.

  

  James Corden
  • Great
  • Important
  • Family

• I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.

  

  Mark Oliphant
  • Lost
  • Hair
  • Kitchen

• When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.

  

  John von Neumann
  • May

• I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level I want to be at when I'm writing. Writing is much more intellectual and indirect and abstract, in a way.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Way

• Notwithstanding the poverty of my outside experience, I have always had a significance for myself, and every chance to stumle along my straight and narrow little path, and to worship at the feet of my Deity, and what more can a human soul ask for?

  

  Alice James
  • Experience
  • Soul
  • Chance

• I know exactly how strong he is... He is like a peacock, spreading his feathers and squawking loudly to distract you from the back that his body is but weak." -Jason to Mahiya

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Strong
  • Body
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• Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

  

  Vittorio Alfieri
  • Crime
  • Doe
  • Punishment

• It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Lessons
  • Levels
  • Impressive

• A good sketch is better than a long speech.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Better
  • Sketch
  • Long Speech

• Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Heart
  • Attention
  • Body

• In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Goodness

• Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Talent
  • Immortality
  • Requires

• Even when I read a book, if the book leaves me the possibility of finding certain solutions or working on my own toward a solution, I prefer that much more than if the book fills me with the answers, gives them to me directly.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Book
  • Giving
  • Certain

• Suppose you were to come upon someone in the woods working feverishly to saw down a tree. "What are you doing?" you ask. "Can't you see?" comes the impatient reply. "I'm sawing down this tree." "You look exhausted!" you exclaim. "How long have you been at it?" "Over five hours," he returns, "and I'm beat! This is hard work." 'Well, why don't you take a break for a few minutes and sharpen that saw?" you inquire. "I'm sure it would go a lot faster." "I don't have time to sharpen the saw," the man says emphatically. "I'm too busy sawing!"

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Long
  • Action
  • Tree

• This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Lost
  • Question
  • Wise

• A short telomere represents a persistent and non-repairable damage to the cells, which is able to prevent their division or regeneration.

  

  María Blasco Marhuenda
  • Damage
  • Prevent
  • Persistent

• In fact, of all hoodoos in Wall Street I think the resolve to induce the stock market to act as a fairy godmother is the busiest and most persistent.

  

  Edwin Lefevre
  • Resolve
  • Persistent
  • Godmother