“It’s not how much you have learned, but how much you have absorbed from what you have learned. It is not how much fixed knowledge you can accumulate, but what you can apply livingly that count.” – Bruce Lee

“It’s not how much you have learned, but how much you have absorbed from what you have learned. It is not how much fixed knowledge you can accumulate, but what you can apply livingly that count.” – Bruce Lee

“We cannot see our reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.” – Taoist proverb

“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.” – Frank Westphal

‘I bought $6 billion worth of tech stocks, and in six weeks I had lost $3 billion in that one play. You asked me what I learned. I didn’t learn anything. I already knew that I wasn’t supposed to do that. I was just an emotional basket-case and couldn’t help myself. So maybe I learned not to do it again, but I already knew that.’ – Stanley Druckenmiller

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” -Marcus Aurelius

“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.” – Douglas Adams



“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few… The goal of practice is always keep our beginner’s mind.” – Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind

“I’m not hunting a jaguar that’s sitting in the tree because there are not a lot of easy ways to rustle it out of the tree. A lot of bad things can happen: The jaguar can attack me and I can fall down and get hurt. But if someone shoots the Jaguar out of the tree and the thing hits the ground and is injured I will go after it.” – Marc Cohodes

“Throughout my financial career, I have continually witnessed examples of other people that I have known being ruined by a failure to respect risk. If you don’t take a hard look at risk, it will take you.” – Larry Hite
