Top 36 Swensen Quotes
#1. A hot, dry breeze greeted the Swensen sisters and their mother when they emerged from the air-conditioned interior of McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas.
Joanne Fluke
#2. Unless an investor has access to 'incredibly high-qualified professionals,' they should be 100 percent passive - that includes almost all individual investors and most institutional investors.
David F. Swensen
#3. Make sure you wear something appropriate, dear. You never know who you'll run into and it's always smart to look your best.
Joanne Fluke
#4. Most words for ghost are pieces of mica that carefully layered
will make a window out of fire. It's cold and the faces at the window
do what faces usually do they open onto a genetic history
that looks up suddenly and it's the eyes everyone says you can't say that's not alive
Cole Swensen
#5. Practicing yoga is a constant evolution. The Ashtanga system can appear very rigid, with its predetermined sequences, but actually there's great freedom within its structure. From the repetition, we learn to find depth in the minutiae of the actions and the wonder of breath and prana.
David F. Swensen
#7. I believe that the greatest teachers create thinking students.
David F. Swensen
#9. The next time you come to the Cookie Jar, the coffee's on me. You could probably bottle that stuff of yours and sell it for rat poison.
Joanne Fluke
#10. Only people you want, need to be with, people who build houses in your heart.
Stephen King
#11. I know exactly how and where I am going to die. The only question is when.
Tony Judt
#12. That which works is authentic. It's a practical truth. What really matters is that we find benefit, regardless of whether it's an ancient traditional approach or some new version, popular or obscure.
David F. Swensen
#13. Being DIY is awesome because you have total control, I never really wanted to get signed. I'm successful because I make art that's meaningful to me that resonates with people, and honestly that's all I could ever want.
MC Lars
#15. She skinned her hair back into a ponytail, a style she knew was probably too young for her, but she planned to drive with her windows open and she could ditch the elastic band once she got to the lake.
Joanne Fluke
#16. Most active mutual funds are more interested in collecting fees than in boosting returns for investors.
David F. Swensen
#17. I think nobody is in a position to react to these big macro-issues. Where is the dollar going to be or what is G.D.P. growth going to be in China? For every smart person on one side of the question, there is another smart person on the other side.
David F. Swensen
#18. I've worked many jobs throughout my life, which has ultimately enhanced my appreciation for the opportunity to teach yoga and share something so positive.
David F. Swensen
#19. The Trade Center dead formed a kind of universal parliament.
Lawrence Wright
#20. The real riches of yoga cannot be seen; they are felt and experienced from the inside out.
David F. Swensen
#21. My attitude about teaching has always been the same. From early on, I wanted to make yoga accessible so that anyone, regardless of ability, could experience its wonder, joy, and power. I encourage students to question, learn, and develop their own personal practice.
David F. Swensen
#22. A yogi is one who leaves a place a little nicer than when they arrived.
David F. Swensen
#24. I think regular Iowans are cynical of this whole idea of corporate welfare, with the biggest awards going to the most profitable companies. It doesn't make sense.
David F. Swensen
#25. Never underestimate the gullibility of large pools of money.
David F. Swensen
#26. Don't let what other people say disturb your mind. Be happy.
David F. Swensen
#27. I've tried many other styles of yoga, but nothing has ever given me the same centeredness, energy, and internal balance that I feel when practicing Ashtanga Yoga.
David F. Swensen
#28. Five
The air across the valley is slightly hazy though thinning though patches
remain between the groves of trees that edge a clearing in which stands a
single house. A child in a white t-shirt has just walked out of the house and
is turning to walk down to the lake.
Cole Swensen
#29. I've always viewed high-frequency trading as a tax on the rest of us.
David F. Swensen
#30. Lyell became something of a celebrity - the Steven Pinker of his generation - and
Elizabeth Kolbert
#31. When you look at the results on an after-fee, after-tax basis over reasonably long periods of time, there's almost no chance that you end up beating the index fund.
David F. Swensen
#32. Only the Holy Spirit can open our eyes. Only He can convict us of the depth of our sin, and only He can convince us of the truth of the Gospel.
Billy Graham
#33. Once, once for all, if you would save your heart from breaking, learn this lesson once for all you must cease, in this world, to believe in the eternity of any creed or form at all. Whatever grows in time is a child of time, and is born and lives, and dies at its appointed day like ourselves.
James Anthony Froude
#34. I encourage students to check out different styles of yoga and different teachers even within one system. Seek the teacher that inspires you, and practice the yoga that makes you feel the best. You'll then find the authentic practice for your life and path.
David F. Swensen
#35. The true depth of understanding and maturity as a practitioner is how we apply what we've learned to our lives.
David F. Swensen
#36. A minuscule 4 percent of funds produce market-beating after-tax results with a scant 0.6 percent (annual) margin of gain. The 96 percent of funds that fail to meet or beat the Vanguard 500 Index Fund lose by a wealth-destroying margin of 4.8 percent per annum.
David F. Swensen
