“Profitable behavior is based on good organizational routines, flexible thinking, consistent discipline and self-control.”
“Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.”
“Self discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not”
“To become a better you, secure your dreams from the jaws of people who discredit your ambitions.”
“trading is more about knowing when to trade than it is about trading. trading is timing. Waiting is painful. pain brings wisdom. Wisdom brings balance. Trading can be excruciating exciting when done wrong, and tautingly tedious when done right”
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
“There is a moment, a cusp, when the sum of gathered experience is worn down by the details of living. We are never so wise as when we live in this moment.”
“Your primary goal is not to get rid of negative feelings and feel better, but to block them from controlling your behavior while you continue to act like a decent person.”
“Be grateful for anything that still cuts. Dissonance is a beauty that familiarity hasn’t yet destroyed.”
“Be humble, for you are made of earth. Be noble, for you are made of stars”