Kenneth Fisher Quotes
The upward move at the beginning of a bull market is almost always huge compared with the vacillations late in the bear market. If you try to pick a bottom, you will miss a good part of the action.
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When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.
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The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.
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He will be beginning a brand new chapter in the Michael Jackson legend.
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If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.
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It's important to have good tunes, but words are the thing for me.
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Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.
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You have to feel good in what you're wearing; if you don't feel good it's not going to look good. You ever see someone wear something that's crazy and say, 'That's so crazy!' But they look good in it, because they feel good in it - you can just tell.
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The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
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Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.
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Acting is such a crazy industry, but kite boarding keeps me grounded.
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I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.
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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
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I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things, but I don't view those effects as good or bad. If a context and a goal is defined, I could say if it's good or bad. But overall, I don't view things as good or bad.
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The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens.
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I probably make my team crazy with the questions I ask, but you really have to understand the deep details to be able set your strategy.
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The upward move at the beginning of a bull market is almost always huge compared with the vacillations late in the bear market. If you try to pick a bottom, you will miss a good part of the action.
