Ellisiv Mathiesen Quotes & Sayings

I think I'm different. I've got alpha, baby ... I think I can find the profits of surprise, the yield of real knowledge. Everyone says that, of course, but most investors are all beta
just volatility, just the random motion of the surf ... they get killed. To generate alpha, I need help, direction, signposts, analysts, and sometimes even brandy-toting salesmen. — George Gilder

If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species. — Gottfried Leibniz

Luxury cruises were designed to make something unbearable (a two week transatlantic crossing) seem bearable. There's no need to do it now, there are planes. You wouldn't take a vacation where you ride on a stage coach for two months but there's all-you-can-eat shrimp. You wouldn't take a vacation where you had an old-timey appendectomy without anesthesia while steel drums play. You might take a vacation while riding on a camel for two days IF they gave you those little animal towels wearing your sunglasses. — Tina Fey

Never is a historic deed already completed when it is done but always only when it is handed down to posterity. What we call "history" by no means represents the sum total of all significant deeds ... World historyonly comprises that tiny lighted sector which chanced to be placed in the spotlight by poetic or scholarly depictions. — Stefan Zweig

Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in sometimes paradoxical waves: an original image, then the manipulations of it, then the places where image and idea intersected. This created a crucial perceptual glitch that irony and understanding filled. — Jerry Saltz

Silence is a virtue in those who are deficient in understanding. — Dominique Bouhours

We need to remember who the enemy is, and then we need to eat them alive. — Greg Gutfeld

There have been many yogis who have been doing these things, or have been having these experiences for years - and now they are searching for freedom. — Mooji

There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art. — Neil Gaiman