Dakis Joannou quotes

“Influence means power, and I don't want that. Whatever happens, here we do our own thing and put it out there for people to take or leave. We're not doing anything to influence them.”
-- Dakis Joannou

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#Mean Quotes #People Quotes #Influence Quotes

“Over the last few years, Greece has been in the world spotlight for all the wrong reasons - because of its economic crisis, and then because of the refugees from Syria.”
-- Dakis Joannou

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“One thing I'm with Trump on is the political correctness in this country. It's draining.”
-- Dakis Joannou

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#Country Quotes #Political Quotes #Political Correctness Quotes

“A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.”

“The whole bible is the working out of the relationship between God and man. God is not a dictator barking out orders and demanding silent obedience. Were it so, there would be no relationship at all. No real relationship goes just one way. There are always two active parties. We must have reverence and awe for God, and honor for the chain of tradition. But that doesn't mean we can't use new information to help us read the holy texts in new ways.”

“I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better.”

“You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.”

“We're not going to survive in this world, temporally or spiritually, without increased faith in the Lord-and I don't mean a positive mental attitude-I mean downright solid faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the one thing that gives vitality and power to otherwise rather weak individuals.”

“There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.”

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“Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.”

“What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.”

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

Source : Alexander Elder (1993). “Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management”, p.39, John Wiley & Sons

“happiness is a duty, not only because of its effect upon us but because of its influence upon others.”