Trading Maxims/Quotes

"...the measuring of worth and sucess in terms of time, and the insistent demand for assurances of a promising future make it impossible to live freely both in the present and in "the promising" future when it arrives. For there is never anything but the present and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere..."

~Alan Watts~
 
...For a man rings like a cracked bell when he thinks and acts with a split mind -- one part standing aside to interfere with the other, to control, to condemn, or to admire"

~Alan Watts~
 
You see, you hesitate. But as a captain you can't. You have to act. If you don't, you put the entire crew at risk.

Now that's the job. It's not a science. You have to be able to make hard decisions, based on imperfect information, asking men to carry out orders that may end up in their death. And if you're wrong you suffer the consequences. If you're not prepared to make those decisions without pause, without reflection, then you've got no business being a submarine captain.

U571
 
"Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world. In our endeavor to understand reality we are somewhat like a man trying to understand the mechanism of a closed watch. He sees the face and the moving hands, even hears its ticking, but he has no way of opening the case. If he is ingenious he may form some picture of a mechanism which could be responsible for all the things he observes, but he may never be quite sure his picture is the only one which could explain his observations. He will never be able to compare his picture with the mehanism and he cannot even imagine the possibility of the meaning of such a comparison."

~Albert Einstein~
 
Eddie Felson: Boy you don't leave much on the table when ya miss do ya fat man???

Minnesota Fats: That's what the gams all about, no?

The Hustler
 
He deals the cards as a meditation
And those he plays never suspect
He doesn't play for the money he wins
He don't play for respect


He deals the cards to find the answer
The sacred geometry of chance
The hidden law of a probable outcome
The numbers lead a dance


I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
I know that the clubs are weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art
But that's not the shape of my heart


He may play the jack of diamonds
He may lay the queen of spades
He may conceal a king in his hand
While the memory of it fades


I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
I know that the clubs are weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art
But that's not the shape of my heart
That's not the shape, the shape of my heart.


And if I told you that I loved you
You'd maybe think there's something wrong
I'm not a man of too many faces
The mask I wear is one


Well, those who speak know nothin'
And find out to their cost
Like those who curse their luck in too many places
And those who fear are lost


I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
I know that the clubs are weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art
But that's not the shape of my heart
But that's not the shape of my heart
That's not the shape, the shape of my heart
That's not the shape, the shape of my heart

~STING; Shape of my heart~
 
Time present and time past;
Are both perhaps present in time future.
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternaly present
All time is unredeemable.
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden...

~T. S. Elliot~ (reflecting upon Lewis Carrol's opening chapter of Alice in Wonderland)
 
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