"When I became a winner, I said, 'I figured it out, but if I'm wrong, I'm getting the hell out, because I want to save my money and go on to the next trade.'"

-- Martin S. Schwartz

#Goes On Quotes #Want Quotes #Next Quotes

“To yourself you are what you think. To the outside world, you are what you do.”
“So decisive", he murmured in that calm tone that had adrenaline flooding her body, the primitive part of her brain conscious she was in the presence of a predator. "Got your eye on someone?" She didnâ€˜t know what made her say it. "No. But I have no plans to die a virgin.”
“I started out as a box boy. You know, I didn't go to college, and I did well in supermarkets.”
“We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.”
“It's true that in a lot of western feminist movements, you see women working singularly from men. Suffragettes and the women's rights movement in the 60s here, but when I think of the Islamic feminist movement, I think of a lot of men who are very much standing with the women. It really feels like in equal numbers. Women are catching up in the field because we were not given access to knowledge and encouraged into these studies and so these men are helping us and empowering us. They are men of conscience who are fed up with this assumption that they're entitled.”

Source : "Mohammed was a Feminist". Interview With April Dembosky, www.motherjones.com. December 19, 2005.
“Israel has a sizeable nuclear arsenal and could retaliate if it were attacked.”

Source : "A War With Iran: Rhetoric Or A Reality?". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. March 10, 2012.
“I became famous almost before I had a craft.”
“No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspects of "the good life." Yes, we should engage in ruthless self-reflection and harsh scrutiny, but we should simultaneously acknowledge that such introspection will, at best, only result in a partial view of our minds at work. Complete objectivity is not an option.”

Source : Robert A. Burton, M.D., M.D. (2008). “On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not”, p.162, Macmillan

You may also like:

Alexander Elder
Author
Amy Hempel
Writer
David Ryan
Business person
Ed Seykota
Trader
Edwin Lefevre
Journalist
Jack D. Schwager
Author
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Stock trader
Victor Sperandeo
William Poundstone
Author