Every once in a while, the market does something so stupid it takes your breath away.
We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must.
I wish it grew on trees, but it takes hard work to make money.
Remember, I am neither a bear nor a bull, I am an agnostic opportunist. I want to make money short- and long-term. I want to find good situations and exploit them.
I will stand up for what I believe and for what I have always believed: Every person has a right to be rich in this country and I want to help them get there.
I may play a total madman on TV, but I’m really just a very unbalanced guy at home. However, when it comes to stocks, I believe in being rigorous and methodical, not crazy. There’s no madness to my method.
This is a business, the direct selling, that bizarrely works best when times are bad.
I think that I could have been take apart if the bear market continued, but I waited three years before I felt the bear market was over and I was right.
I mean that what makes me a professional, but the market itself has been fabulous during this whole period and I’ve got to give the market credit before I give myself credit.
These will be fabulous investments and will make millions of more people rich.
After all, you only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.
Your premium brand had better be delivering something wonderful, or it’s not going to get the business.
When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night’s sleep for the chance of extra profits.
If you’re in the luckiest 1 percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.
I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don’t like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn’t that a little like saving up sex for your old age?
No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.
Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
If you don’t feel comfortable owning something for 10 years, then don’t own it for 10 minutes.
I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.
I often thought my gravestone would say, ‘Here lies Gandalf. He came out,’
I’ve often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction.
I’m dead against the idea that you should try to “cure” people of being gay.
Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you’re playing through your own experience – so we’re all different.
To know you are in the company with people who love and care for each other, as well as for whatever they are working on, is almost essential.
Actors are merely the medium through which a story happens.
You can always pick out stage actors at the Oscars: they know how to walk.
Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I’ve ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn’t even realized I was carrying.
In the theatre, the actor is in total control. The director wasn’t in the house last night, the designer wasn’t there, the author’s dead. It’s just us and the audience.
We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It’s much more difficult.
Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming.
We’re all flawed heroes. Responsibility is power. Take responsibility for the consequences of your actions, and the world is yours. Everything is a choice.
We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one.
Everything’s a choice. Nobody’s born good. Nobody’s born evil. It’s always a choice.
I never get afraid of things, I only get excited.
No such thing as an original thought. We are shadows of stars that burned before our time.
Do the work, enjoy the work, take it seriously, don’t take yourself seriously and keep your head down!
Just because you’re good in something doesn’t mean you’ll necessarily be good in something else. You just try and chase opportunities that you fall in love with or that inspire you and keep doing the work.
Everyone should do what they love because it will never feel like work that way.
Every time you consider a job, you have to check in with your inner compass and say, ‘Does this fit in with how I see what the work is for? Is this going to be something interesting and valuable to contribute to the world?
Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.
Like all of these things, like a lot of art, you do the work and you let go. You understand how the thing works and then you let go of it. It should be something you breathe or you feel, not something that you force or try to control.
Metaphorically speaking, it’s easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.
Being in front of an audience makes me feel alive. Being with friends makes me feel alive. I’ve done some crazy stuff in my time and yet I can feel infinitely alive curled up on a sofa reading a book. So, what makes me feel alive? I guess it’s realizing I am part of the world around me.
You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It’s made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.
I try to work hard. I’m really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it’s a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.
I like to think that we’re revolving on this planet and revolving through the galaxy. I love having context that’s so much bigger than I can fathom. It’s fantastic to realise how insignificant you are.
Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don’t see beyond that.
Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it’s something I care about.
I’ve made up so many stores about my name, I can’t remember.
I like working all the time. I hate taking breaks. I don’t like the weekends.
It’s hard for me to put my feelings into words.
When I decide to do something, I stick with it, total commitment.
I’m like the kid that crams for tests and never remembers anything.
It takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal.
I feel like everything you learn as an actor growing up is wrong. You’re supposed to hit your mark, find your light and know your lines. Those are all things that just make things wooden, dull and boring.
For me, I’d rather have an intense experience than not.
I always have the fear that, if I don’t commit 100 percent to my work, then it’s gonna suffer.
Without education, you’re not going anywhere in this world.
I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against.
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
There is nothing better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time.
I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere.
You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.
Don’t be in such a hurry to condemn a person because he doesn’t do what you do, or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today.
If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
What kind of a man wants a woman today that cannot hold a conversation.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
To live is tochoose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
We don’t need any more promises. We need to start keeping the promises we already made.
Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy, and sustainable human development.
When women thrive, all of the social benefits and succeeding generations are given a better start in life.
Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is.
If you are neutral in a situation where one side is patently being mistreated, the conclusion is that you’re siding with this wrong.
Once you are really challenged, you find something in yourself. Man doesn’t know what he is capable of until he is asked.
What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.
Intelligence is what you use when you don’t know what to do.
The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.
Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely.
I could not think without writing.
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.
It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.
Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.
All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.
To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand what they believe. They may even wish not to have their beliefs disturbed by thought.
Sometimes it feels like I’m thinking against the wind.
Philosophy is everybody’s business.
True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.
The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.
A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.
Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
