"Cultivate an ever-continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents."

-- John Singer Sargent

#Groups Quotes #Posture Quotes #Incidents Quotes

“Los Angeles, the sun shines a lot, and it's blue, and there's palm trees; it's a bit like Sydney, I guess, but the underbelly is a vicious, mean, cruel, awful place.”
“Trading has taught me not to take the conventional wisdom forÂ granted. What money I made in trading is testimony to the factÂ that the majority is wrong a lot of the time. The vast majorityÂ is wrong even more of the time. I've learned that markets, whichÂ are often just mad crowds, are often irrational; when emotionallyÂ overwrought, they're almost always wrong.”
“Today, you're either very big or you're playing stadiums or you're not playing anymore. You're either popular where everybody will go to a 20,000 seat arena to see you or they won't go to see you at all.”
“Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.”
“Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.”
“As a writer you're holding a dog. You let the dog run about. But you finally can pull him back. Finally, I'm in control. But the great excitement is to see what happens if you let the whole thing go. And the dog or the character really runs about, bites everyone in sight, jumps up trees, falls into lakes, gets wet, and you let that happen. That's the excitement of writing plays-to allow the thing to be free but still hold the final leash.”
“Sometimes a savage beauty lured me into the sun and I would start to love the danger a little. On these occasions I felt the reluctant love drained painfully from me as blood drains from a deep wound. The tigers lapped my love's blood and remained enemies. The inhabitants of the day laughed at the gift I wanted to bring them, and I shut myself in my inner room to escape the betrayal of their arrogant mouths.”
“A lot of times when I was short, I would create a level of activity beforehand that would drive the futures. . . . It's a fun game,”

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