Quotes About Exposure

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

For some unknown reason, success usually occurs in private, while failure occurs in full view.

Another reason controls should precede strategy is that, as we learned in chapter 7, you can't calculate the probability of a trade's being profitable; you can only calculate your exposure. So all you can do is manage your losses, not predict profits.

The web eliminates all hiding places.

Background knowledge is one reason children who read the most bring the largest amount of information to the learning table and thus understand more of what the teacher or the textbook is teaching. Children whose families take them to museums and zoos, who visit historic sites, who travel abroad, or who camp in remote areas accumulate huge chunks of background knowledge without even studying.

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

It gathers emotionally inside you, in a strange way a by-product of struggle, of a willingness to do anything, try anything, expose yourself to anything — staying in motion because sooner or later those ripples will cause change.

eyes running over me like the work of a hundred biting ants

Why, that is just what he would say, Signor; but bad deeds will out, whether people like them to be known or not. This man comes to our town sometimes to market, and nobody knew where he came from for a long while; so they set themselves to work and found it out at last.

Skatoties uz tevi, man v?der? viss saž?audzas k? desmit t?kstoš skat?t?ju priekš?, l?dzu, dari tam galu, n?c un apskauj mani...

The women were thus simultaneously dressed up and stripped down. The evidence of an overmaterialized and scopically available body emerges not out of bare flesh or real ornaments, but instead from their phantasmic conflation, an overlapping of surfaces located in teasing peripheries: the borders of a collar, the peep of a hem, the gleaming edge of a sleeve.

J'accuse," published in 1898, Emile Zola

Six flashlights turned on, beacons that said, We're here, come eat us!

he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean

To feel anything deranges you. To be seen feeling anything strips you naked.

To feel anything deranges you. To be seen feeling anything strips you naked. In the grip of it pleasure or pain doesn't matter. You think what will they do what new power will they acquire if they see me naked like this. If they see you feeling . You have no idea what . It's not about them . To be seen is the penalty.

There she is in one of those tiny white bikinis, which is infinitely more seductive than pure nakedness.

Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.

I fear I will be ripped open and found unsightly.

Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.

The shadow side of this exposure is that, at least in the West, any cultural meme that gets seized by the collective consciousness runs the risk of trivialization, thus diluting its power.

Somebody like me wouldn't have gone on to the Trisha show because I already had a public profile.

I happen to have a public profile. Ditto newspaper editors. It's a result of what I do, not an end.

The University of Memphis didn't have the flashy profile or the national exposure. It's a great university. I love the offense. I love the atmosphere, the big city. They have everything I want. The only knock against them is they are not a great team.