"Michael [Marcus] taught me one thing that was incredibly important... He taught me that you could make a million dollars. He showed me that if you applied yourself, great things could happen. It is very easy to miss the point that you really can do it."

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Source : "Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders". Book by Jack D. Schwager, 1989.

Bruce Kovner

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“When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind of thinking gets in the way.”

Source : Interview with David L. Ulin, latimesblogs.latimes.com. February 6, 2011.
“Wayne Gretzky's talent doesn't come from studying everything he's experienced in hockey and making long-term game plans. It comes from constantly taking in all the data that's happening in the moment on the ice, and instantly generating constant predictions based on super-efficient mental models he's built in his head. Technology has to work more like Gretzky.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“I believe I am doing the work for humanity. This show is so uplifting.”
“The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.”
“I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way”
“He who sees age on the outside of things is doomed to underestimate the vitality of raisins.”
“I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I write. Every book comes to me in a flash of inspiration and takes me about two seconds to finish. The longer books, like the Time Warp Trio novels, take a little longer to write - more like four seconds.”
“I think that always makes it fun, trying to create a heroic character and putting your own twist on it and injecting your own personality into it.”

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