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“Years later, (Paul) Jones described the mental gymnastics that went into writing these scripts. "Every evening I would close my eyes in a quiet place in my apartment ... I would visualize the opening and walk myself through the day and imagine the different emotional states the market would go through... Then when you get there, you are ready for it. You have been there before. You are in a mental state to take advantage of emotional extremes because you have already lived through them.”
― Sebastian Mallaby, More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite

“What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Like books, sports give people a sense of having lived other lives, of taking part in other people's victories. And defeats. When sports are at their best, the spirit of the fan merges with the spirit of the athlete, and in that convergence, in that transference, is the oneness that the mystics talk about.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

“Is there anything more attractive than a polite person with limitless self-belief? There is not.”
― Chuck Klosterman, I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains