"I basically learned that you must get out of your losses immediately. It's not merely a matter of how much you can afford to risk on a given trade, but you also have to consider how many potential future winners you might miss because of the effect of the larger loss on your mental attitude and trading size."

-- Randy McKay

#Attitude Quotes #Loss Quotes #Missing Quotes

“But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?”
“I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintainence of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing and it requires a self-denying ordinance of the most extreme kind. It requires a willingness to put up with temporary evils on the basis of the subtle and sophisticated understanding that if you step in to do something about them you not only may make them worse, you will spread your tenticles and get bad results elsewhere.”
“Sometimes, a person who likes your work and a person who donâ€™t will show up within milliseconds of each other to let you know how they feel. One does not need to cancel out the other, positively or negatively; if youâ€™re proud of the work, and you enjoyed the work, that is whatâ€™s important.”
“The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything.”
“Start with local press first. Start with people you know. Don't pitch every journalist.”
“Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.”
“A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I do love it. It's a different side to writing. It's like the fine-tuning.”

Source : Interview with V.R. Leavitt, www.goodreads.com. February 09, 2015.
“I don't believe in publishers who wish to butter their bannocks on both sides while they'll hardly allow an author to smell treacle. I consider they are too grabby altogether and like Methodists they love to keep the Sabbath and everything else they can lay hands upon.”

Source : Amanda McKittrick Ros, Frank Ormsby (1988). “Thine in storm and calm: an Amanda McKittrick Ros reader”, Blackstaff Pr

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