Top 67 Gann Quotes
#1. I think the works of W.D. Gann and Robert Prechter have inspired me more than anyone else. It was from their writings that I discovered cycles, patterns, and psychology dominate the market, and that the news breaks with the cycles, not the other way around.
Jeff Cooper
#2. And the moral of this story is?" asked Amber, and immediately regretted it because it didn't sound tough and bored at all, just snotty. "That everything looks small on paper," Meoraq replied. "But in Gann's world, shit happens." The
R. Lee Smith
#3. Back in Australia, I did foster care for sick cats for years, and I was always most successful with the animals when I was given two - a brother and sister.
Jason Gann
#4. I often don't like seeing how different things are made. I'm not a big fan of behind the scenes stuff.
Jason Gann
#5. I've always been fairly confident in my acting.
Jason Gann
#6. I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested.
Jason Gann
#7. A stood for altimeter. It told how high a man flew. B stood for boost. It told the power in the engines. C stood for compass. It told in which direction a man was proceeding. It was delightfully simple.
Ernest K. Gann
#8. There are two kinds of airplanes - those you fly and those that fly you ... You must have a distinct understanding at the very start as to who is the boss.
Ernest K. Gann
#9. Electronics were rascals, and they lay awake nights trying to find some way to screw you during the day. You could not reason with them. They had a brain and intestines, but no heart.
Ernest K. Gann
#10. I've had some offers from furries - people that want to have sex with dudes in furry suits. I've had some interesting requests. There's some great fans.
Jason Gann
#11. They were like fire and water, two opposing forces forever lost in an epic rivalry. Quite frankly, it would have been easier attempting to break a deal with wild horses than these two boys.
Louise Gann
#12. The only characteristic all airliners share is that upon proper urging they are normally capable of leaving the earth's surface.
Ernest K. Gann
#13. I really wanted to work in the American industry because it's the leading industry. It's where film and television started.
Jason Gann
#14. I'm much more a writer than an actor. Although I have a great respect for that and I enjoy acting still, it really is about the world that I'm creating. That's where my future is.
Jason Gann
#15. It doesn't look nearly as big as it did the first time I saw one. Mickey McGuire and I used to sit hour after hour in the cockpit of the one that American used for training, at the company school in Chicago, saying to each other, 'My God, do you think we'll ever learn to fly anything this big?'
Ernest K. Gann
#16. It is the professional pilot's bounden duty to know the idiosyncrasies of each type (of airplane), for he must spend a large proportion of his active career exploiting its qualities and compensating for its faults. These secrets cannot be discovered in a ground school.
Ernest K. Gann
#17. A successful trader studies human nature and does the opposite of what the general public does.
William Delbert Gann
#18. There is no more alluring airspace in the world than the slit up a China girl's dress.
Ernest K. Gann
#19. Every movement in the market is the result of a natural law and of a Cause which exists long before the Effect takes place and can be determined years in advance. The future is but a repetition of the past, as the Bible plainly states ...
William Delbert Gann
#20. Dogs are more of a responsibility than kids - you can send a kid off to their grandparents or a nanny, but with a dog you can't do that.
Jason Gann
#21. It's when things are going just right that you'd better be suspicious. There you are, fat as can be. The whole world is yours and you're the answer to the Wright brothers' prayers. You say to yourself, nothing can go wrong ... all my trespasses are forgiven. Best you not believe it.
Ernest K. Gann
#22. I came to America so that I could work with the best and be the best.
Jason Gann
#23. It's always difficult when you want to do something really new, and you also want it to reach the masses, because the majority of people want to see what they've already seen before, or that they're already familiar with. To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult.
Jason Gann
#24. The moment I do any puppy dog acting, I think the joke is dead. It's in the truth of how I play it, and the real painful honesty that I approach my performance with.
Jason Gann
#25. Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are victims to the spell. Their world is like a magic island in which the factors of life and death assume their proper values. Thinking becomes clear because there are no earthly foibles or embellishments to confuse it.
Ernest K. Gann
#26. I really think that you can extract a lot of comedy out of really dramatic, intense situations.
Jason Gann
#27. I want a boat that drinks 6, eats 4, and sleeps 2.
Ernest K. Gann
#28. It's great to write for actors when you know who they are. I think I prefer it.
Jason Gann
#29. There's darkness everywhere. You just can't see it because the sun is such an attention-whore.
Jason Gann
#30. I like drama as well. When I played Hamlet, I got one review that said, "This must surely be the funniest Hamlet in history," but schoolgirls would still cry when he died.
Jason Gann
#31. The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now. I will be in it, if I'm the best man for the job, but it really is about creating characters and shows.
Jason Gann
#32. There are no real guidelines or maps in Australia as to how to write a show, whereas in Hollywood it's where the TV industry is created and there's a lot of work that goes into development.
Jason Gann
#33. The last few years I've had to force myself to go out and be more involved the world because I can get a bit more cerebral and escape into characters and the world of characters. But now I guess I escape into stories about 'Wilfred.'
Jason Gann
#34. Nobody who gets too damned relaxed builds up much flying time.
Ernest K. Gann
#35. ...I stand looking at the aircraft, trying in vain to remember all the theoretical lore which i was supposed to have absorbed in school. The effort is discouraging.
Ernest K. Gann
#36. To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult. I always think that, as long as it's funny underneath, then you can argue that a teaspoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.
Jason Gann
#37. Did you know, the worst kind of demon is that which is disguised as a human".
Louise Gann
#38. I'm fascinated in the children within adults.
Jason Gann
#39. I don't get that many scripts. Back in Australia, I've pretty much done my own shows and really no work outside of that. It's only now that I'm starting to read some Hollywood film scripts, and I've read some really great ones.
Jason Gann
#40. I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.
Jason Gann
#41. We lived in and out of our flight bags, they being our true and only home. Thus, if we were not actually flying or sleeping, we were often lonely and at a loss to occupy ourselves.
Ernest K. Gann
#42. It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.
Ernest K. Gann
#43. Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps.
Ernest K. Gann
#44. Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal.
Ernest K. Gann
#45. In referance to flying through thunderstorms; "A pilot may earn his full pay for that year in less than two minutes. At the time of incident he would gladly return the entire amount for the privilege of being elsewhere.
Ernest K. Gann
#46. Because every urge but survival had been reduced to nothing, they had become a mutual will, like that which caused whole peoples to unite in desperation.
Ernest K. Gann
#47. My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier.
Jason Gann
#48. MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever owned that you could put in a dive, loose a cylinder and stall out!
Ernest K. Gann
#49. Sometimes girls would come in and audition and they'd talk down, and it was like, "No, no, talk to the human eye level."
Jason Gann
#50. Eventually, I want to be a creative producer that isn't in things. The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now.
Jason Gann
#51. My mind held fast to that hot morning and the moment of coolness in the cabin. I could so easily re-enact every moment. Again-why had I gone back to exchange the beautiful charts at that precise moment? How many times would I, in whatever innocence, be compelled to choose the right time?
Ernest K. Gann
#52. You can maybe be artistic and really original and creative, but as long as it's got that funniness at the root of it, then certain people are going to love it just because they need a laugh.
Jason Gann
#53. I've been insane for a long time. An ex-girlfriend of mine once asked, "Is it true that all comedians are depressed?," and I said, "Every one I know is."
Jason Gann
#54. I am drawn to the new chart with all of its colorful intricacies as a gourmet must anticipate the details of a feast ... I shall keep them forever. As stunning exciting proof that a proper mixture of science and art is not only possible but a blessed union.
Ernest K. Gann
#55. I always found it really funny when actors would come offstage, smoking cigarettes and swearing at each other.
Jason Gann
#56. British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.
Jason Gann
#57. I do have a couple of pets, but I am determined to keep them out of the media spotlight.
Jason Gann
#58. So many young pets burn out in Hollywood, it's crazy.
Jason Gann
#59. Ding dong, the witch was dead" murmured Merlin as Gwen headed down the path towards the lake. She turned around and smiled "you're not the wizard of OZ Merlin, you don't get to make that call" she replied icily before diving into the cool crisp water.
Louise Gann
#60. If such a thing as love exists, then surely freedom exist to
Louise Gann
#61. The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the one you can't train for that kills you.
Ernest K. Gann
#62. The men in this book are fictitious characters but their counterparts can be found in cockpits all over the world. Now they are flying a war. Tomorrow they will be flying a peace, for, regardless of the world's condition, flying is their life.
Ernest K. Gann
#63. I think that you can make a drama and have it be intensely funny, and vice versa.
Jason Gann
#64. The writer's room is a really interesting place to be.
Jason Gann
#65. I want to do different projects and be versatile. I don't want to get fixed into narrative comedy.
Jason Gann
#67. I'm sort lucky in that for me, I'm a writer now. I started as an actor but I'm a writer and so things like 'Wilfred' and shows like that are where I escape to.
Jason Gann
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