Streaks Quotes - Page 3

In many ways, large profits are even more insidious than large losses in terms of emotional destabilization. I think it's important not to be emotionally attached to large profits. I've certainly made some of my worst trades after long periods of winning. When you're on a big winning streak, there's a temptation to think that you're doing something special, which will allow you to continue to propel yourself upward. You start to think that you can afford to make shoddy decisions. You can imagine what happens next. As a general rule, losses make you strong and profits make you weak.

William Eckhardt

Strong, Loss, Winning

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So if big enough droplets fell far enough fast enough, someone floating right near the metallic hydrogen layer inside Jupiter maybe, just maybe, could have looked up into its cream and orange sky and seen the most spectacular show ever--fireworks lighting up the Jovian night with a trillion streaks of brilliant crimson, what scientists call neon rain.

Sam Kean

Rain, Night, Orange

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I still noticed that little streak of rebelliousness coming up in me again - the same sense of dissatisfaction I had felt earlier with the empty rituals and institutionalized values of all religious traditions.

Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

Religious, Littles, Tradition

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More and more teams are using almost exclusively the draft to build their teams. And that means you have younger players to develop in those key depth positions. Younger players are more susceptible to streaks than veterans. They go up, they go down.

Ozzie Newsome

Team, Mean, Player

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In 50 years, your grandchildren will be asking you where you were when CM Punk beat the Undertaker's streak!

CM Punk

Grandchildren, Years, Cm Punk

"WWE Raw", March 11, 2013.

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The year I gave up the 150-catch streak I had an ankle injury and didn't want to go back in because I'd have a better chance of playing the following week.

Ozzie Newsome

Years, Ankles, Want

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I saw that streak in him when he told me, 'Get the hell out of here or I'll wipe you out., I got the hell out of there, Liston really scared me.

Muhammad Ali

Boxing, Wipe, Saws

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There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.

Octave Mirbeau

Depression, Mental Illness, Inexplicable

Octave Mirbeau (1997). “Torture Garden”, Dedalus Limited

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I also think that there is a strong streak of racism, and whenever we engage in foreign adventures. Our whole history in regime change has been of people of different color.

Ed Asner

Strong, Adventure, Thinking

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Baseball is slovenly and excessive in midsummer, with its onrolling daily cascade of line scores and box scores, shifting statistics, highlights and lowlights, dingers and shutouts, streaks and slumps.

Roger Angell

Sports, Baseball, Slumps

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To be at the top, you have to have a competitive streak in you. If you're not performing, you've got to be angry with yourself.

Michael Owen

Performing, Angry, Ifs

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I've got a bit of an independent streak. I'm not afraid of bipartisan compromise on issues that are important to the nation.

Heather Wilson

Independent, Issues, Important

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Looking at the championship-winning quarterbacks, Edwards remembered their particular talents: Gary Sheide: The image of Joe Namath. He even had Joe's number. Had just a great feel and touch for the game. A great athlete who could play all the sports. He was more of a streak guy than any of them. He could miss two or three passes and then get hot and hit ten straight. He was the one who got it all started.

LaVell Edwards

Sports, Athlete, Winning

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Through the window of my mask I see a wall of coral, its surface a living kaleidoscope of lilac flecks, splashes of gold, reddish streaks and yellows, all tinged by the familiar transparent blue of the sea.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Nature, Wall, Blue

Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1978). “Life and death in a coral sea”

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It was that summer, too, that I began the cutting, and was almost as devoted to it as my newfound loveliness. I adored tending to myself, wiping a shallow red pool of my blood away with a damp washcloth to magically reveal, just above my naval: queasy. Applying alcohol with dabs of a cottonball, wispy shreds sticking to the bloody lines of: perky. I had a dirty streak my senior year, which I later rectified.

Gillian Flynn

Summer, Senior, Dirty

Gillian Flynn (2006). “Sharp Objects: A Novel”, p.62, Broadway Books

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Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house? The shades of the prison-house closed round about us all: walls strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly narrow, tall, and unscalable to sons of night who must plod darkly on in resignation, or beat unavailing palms against the stone, or steadily, half hopelessly, watch the streak of blue above.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Wall, Son, Night

"The Souls of Black Folk".

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Going to the gym was never about 'working out' like it is for most people. To me, It was a matter of life or death. It was either me or the weights-and I was going to win. I've always had that competitive streak, whether it was in the gym, on the stage, or In anything else I did.

Rich Gaspari

Bodybuilding, Winning, People

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Ultimately, the best runners are the ones who are willing to work very hard but who have a little bit of a lazy streak in them.

Benji Durden

Lazy, Littles, Runners

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I think the best comedy is tragicomic. Yeah, I suppose if you were to look at everything I've done, there is a bit of a black streak through all of it. It's not deliberate: it's what makes me laugh, and there's a fine tradition of it, especially in Ireland.

Sharon Horgan

Thinking, Laughing, Black

"Sharon Horgan: 'There is a black streak in everything I've done'". Interview With Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2012.

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It's horrible. We had an eight-game win streak going. We were all high and happy and everything is good. It's kind of a reality check. We have to get back and start working again. ... We just didn't bring it tonight.

Jared Jordan

Winning, Reality, Eight

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If there is a streak of ham anywhere in an actor, Shakespeare will bring it out.

Robert Benchley

Actors, Ham, Ifs

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Too many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be. Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in the Rose Garden kissing the First Lady's foot.

Edward Abbey

Kissing, Garden, Feet

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.35, RosettaBooks

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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life. Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.

Alan Bennett

Dream, Godly, Thinking

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Hang on, Pa, don't reach for yer shotgun just yet," I said, grinning over the protective streak I found funny, when there wasn't actually anything to shelterme from. "We were just circlin' the wagons, not having an orgy." My dad suddenly looked like he might be sick. "Please don't ever say that word again." "Wagons?

Rachel Vincent

Dad, Sick, Might

"Before I Wake". Book by Rachel Vincent, June 26, 2012.

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He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and a liar. He stood for everything she feared and hated and despised; but she knew she could love him... This was no choice made with the mind.

Daphne du Maurier

Liars, Choices Made, Rude

Daphne du Maurier (1936). “JAMAICA INN”

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