M.K. Alexander Quotes

Amateurs look for challenges; professionals look for easy trades. Losers get high from the action; the pros look for the best odds.

What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws.

O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!

Go with your instinct and your gut. It sounds cliché, but never give up and just keep on. If you really believe in it, you have to just dive in and go for it.

No one is going to understand your brand better than you.

All space and matter, organic or inorganic, has some degree of life in it, and matter/space is more alive or less alive according to its structure and arrangement.

The reason I'm patriotic about Scotland is because I think it's been dealt a really hard hand. It's marketed the world over as . . . haggis . . . bagpipes. But no one ever puts anything back into it.

The market does not know you exist. You can do nothing to influence it. You can only control your behavior.

You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives.

When a beginner wins he feels brilliant and invincible Then he takes wild risk and loses everything.

I find beauty in melancholy.

Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.

A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move, propelled by electric motors, wind, water or by hand.

Right now I'm scoring goals and I'm the king of the world. And a couple weeks ago I was almost in the toilet. So maybe you just forget to flush me.

Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns.

Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth and the Great Silence alone.

The first inspiration I ever had was the cosmos, the planetary system.

One minute can decide the outcome of the battle, one hour - the outcome of the campaign, and one day - the fate of the country.

Train hard, fight easy.

To be a good trader, you need to trade with your eyes open, recognize real trends and turns, and not waste time or energy on regrets and wishful thinking.

Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.

Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!

The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France?

You can only go forward by making mistakes.

My hair was too big. And my head is big, and my hair is big, so my helmet gets too small. So I have to make a haircut.

Man is a hungry being. But he is hungry for God. Behind all the hunger of our life is God. All desire is finally a desire for Him.

Observe, Remember, Compare.

Remember, your goal is to trade well, not to trade often.

For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting there: I've found my customer, my silhouette, my cut.

That others grasp what I have in mind seems unessential, at least as long as they have something else in theirs.

Hockey is my life, you know. If I do not play hockey, I do not know what I do.

I saw the rebound and when the puck came to me, I said, oh my God, puck, I must shoot.

Americans rouse - be unanimous, be virtuous, be firm, exert your courage, trust in Heaven, and nobly defy the enemies both of God and man!

The more comfort the less courage there is.

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

Look outside the window. Do you see the fence outside the palace? Do you see any guards? This is a country where everyone is safe.

God help me now to preach the Word to all the dying around, and tell them how.

You do not base your belief that Jesus is the Saviour from sin upon the fact that somebody is saved, or says he is saved; but you base it upon the Word of the living God; and there you stand.

O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.

Statistical projections which speak to the senses without fatiguing the mind, possess the advantage of fixing the attention on a great number of important facts.

Chess, like other arts, must be practiced to be appreciated.

When my first wife & I began the school, we had one main idea: to make the school fit the child - instead of making the child fit the school.

If you're an open book, there's no allure.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

In my view this is not democracy, but a zoo.... It was exactly what we expected, but not on that scale nor in that form. In a word, it was nothing but a zoo, you can't put it better

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.

Win with ability, not with numbers.