M.K. Alexander Quotes

Many traders ride an emotional roller coaster and miss the essential element of winning: the management of their emotions.

Sometimes one barely understand oneself.

The markets are unforgiving, and emotional trading always results in losses.

Oh what would Rome be without a plot?

If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no people can be built up on flowers.

This hiatus coming up I'm looking at a comedy because I need the balance.

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

Deux fous gagnent toujours, mais trois fous, non!

The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS.

There is never a problem child; there is only a problem parent

A hard drill makes an easy battle.

I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition

Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.

Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.

Who can guarantee that he [Alexander Milinkevich, a Belarussian opposition presidential candidate] is the most promising candidate capable of competing with the incumbent president?

True peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God and will be deep and passing all understanding in the exact measure in which we live in and partake of the love of God.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in doing it.

Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support [salary] is a power over his will.

If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.

In love's God-like breathing, there's the innermost aspect of the universe.

Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.

Habit is Heaven's own redress: it takes the place of happiness.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

The only real fall of man is his noneucharistic life in a noneucharistic world.

But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.

I always say that I'm really inspired by mistakes and things that kind of go wrong.

There's a tendency to think that young designers only do fantasy fashion, but I'm more interested in making clothes that women can afford.

If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

Away with the idea of getting independence first, and looking for liberty afterwards... Our liberties, once lost, may be lost forever.

All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

You must cast yourself on God's gospel with all your weight, without any hanging back, without any doubt, without even the shadow of a suspicion that it will give.

Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.

Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.

I think when you're winning, your uniforms are cool.

He who is afraid is half beaten.

Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.

To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius.

Know what [drug] you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience.

The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them

Anarchism means voluntary co-operation instead of forced participation. It means harmony and order in place of interference and disorder.

The things that you can't really foresee and that kind of surprise you, and a lot of times they are bad, but other times, they bring something different and new to the table.

Traders lose because the game is hard, or out of ignorance, or lack of discipline or because of both.