Seykota System Quotes & Sayings

I would add that I consider myself and how I do things as a kind of system which, by definition, I always follow. — Ed Seykota

Sometimes you can define a composition or a couple of notes by the silence that goes around it. — Steve Tibbetts

Systems don't need to be changed. The trick is for a trader to develop a system with which he is compatible. — Ed Seykota

It's all about sticking to your plan and experiencing feelings as they arise. If you are unwilling to feel your feelings, the temptation is to avoid them by jumping off your system — Ed Seykota

Blood oozed from deep puncture wounds at his neck and shoulder. His right arm flopped unnaturally. From the middle of his back to his waist, the bear's raking claws left deep, parallel cuts. It reminded Harris of tree trunks he had seen where bears mark their territory, only these marks were etched in flesh instead of wood. On the back of Glass's thigh, blood seeped through his buckskin breeches. Harris — Michael Punke

I never met Publo Picasso. I took pictures at the Festival d'Avignon, but I was too shy to ask to go in his studio. It does not look like me now, but I was very shy, and shy of men also. I think there was a world that frightened me totally. — Agnes Varda

If truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom ... — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The key to long-term survival and prosperity has a lot to do with the money management techniques incorporated into the technical system. — Ed Seykota

I'm as highly insecure as a human can be. — Billy Bob Thornton

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would help construct a better organized image. — Berenice Abbott

My Chicken can do a special trick! "And what is that?" She can lay an egg! "And what's so special about THAT?!" Well, Can YOU lay an egg? — Shirley Temple

Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance is not a mode of taxation. It is rather a mode of disguised expropriation of the successful capitalists and entrepreneurs. — Ludwig Von Mises

It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good. — Henri Rousseau

Talking to other people while you're cooking, it doesn't come naturally. — Giada De Laurentiis

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution. — Robert H. Schuller

On the one hand, all truth is relative; on the other hand, postmodernism tells it like it really is.
On the one hand, all cultures are equally deserving of respect; on the other, Western culture is uniquely destructive and bad.
Values are subjective
but sexism and racism are really evil.
Technology is bad and destructive
and it is unfair that some people have more technology than others.
Tolerance is good and dominance is bad
but when postmodernists come to power, political correctness follows. — Stephen Hicks

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker. — Mikhail Bakunin