You read stuff about yourself and you think, My God, where are these people coming up with these things? Why am I the one that they're picking on?
As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It's something they reserve just for me.
Logic is the subject that has helped me most in picking stocks, if only because it taught me to identify the peculiar illogic of Wall Street. Actually Wall Street thinks just as the Greeks did. The early Greeks used to sit around for days and debate how many teeth a horse has. They thought they could figure it out just by sitting there, instead of checking the horse. A lot of investors sit around and debate whether a stock is going up, as if the financial muse will give them the answer, instead of checking the company.
I think there are always going to be things that you're going to want to do. It's about picking yourself back up and starting again.
As for my father, I never knew whether he believed God was a mathematician but he certainly believed God could count and that only by picking up God's rhythms were we able to regain power and beauty. Unlike many Presbyterians, he often used the word "beautiful.
I'm not going to say it's easy, but I do have an ease with picking up fight choreography because of my dance training.
Initiative is the privilege of picking yourself.
To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your head.
Socrates said, our only knowledge was "To know that nothing could be known;" a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present. Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only "like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth. "
I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.
Picking up our Bibles, we should give God our full attention, withhold our opinion until we understand what He is saying, listen without interrupting, and respond with understanding and obedience.
If you're picking your best friend based on what kind of clothes she wears or how popular she is, chances are you aren't going to stay in touch after graduation.
The main way to reduce stress in the workplace is by picking the right people.
When I'm rhyming it's all in my head. . . Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.
And extracting one molecule's signature in spectral analysis from the rest of the signatures is hard work, sort of like picking out the sound of your toddler's voice in a roomful of screaming children during playtime. It's hard, but you can do it.
If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
I can keep picking small fights, or brave the big one. Time to screw my courage. Or go down trying.
I swear my car won't run unless I'm picking my nose: At least, I'm that superstitious about it, so I don't want to take any chances.
When you win an award from the Grammys, it means a lot 'cause it's voted on by 100% by the people. It's not like some old guy sitting at a desk picking. It's doesn't work like that. It's voted on by your peers in the music industry.
Cooking brings me so much joy. I love everything, down to the execution of the plate to picking out fresh ingredients at the market. It makes me deeply grateful and aware of where our food comes from and how feeding people is another way of saying, "I love you. "