“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.” ThinkingWayLongMadeImportantBigsHappensNextWinningStrongTermLossDecisionImagineWorstSpecialEmotionalPeriodsWeakTradeProfitTemptationSomething SpecialStreaksInsidious Author:William Eckhardt
“I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.” TryingYearsSometimesWould BeLyingNightImaginePeriodsOddAwakeBeing The BestSeventiesAwake At Night Author:Michael Dirda
“I had my yob periods. Nothing violent but certainly loutish. I think it's frustrated intelligence. Imagine that if you were really intelligent and everyone treated you as though you were stupid and no one tried to teach you anything -- the sort of deep subliminal rage that would get going in you. But then once it gets going, you make a strength out of what you know is your weakness, which is that you are undeveloped.” IfsThinkingKnowsTeachImagineStupidPeriodsWeaknessIntelligentRageViolentTreatedImagine ThatFrustratedSubliminal Author:Martin Amis
“It never seemed important to me that my photos be published. It's important that I take them. There were periods where I didn't have money, and I would imagine that someone would come to me and say: 'Here is money, you can go do your photography, but you must not show it.' I would have accepted right away. On the other hand, if someone had come to me saying: 'Here is money to do your photography, but after your death it must be destroyed,' I would have refused.” IfsImportantShowsHandsImaginePeriodsPhotographyPhotographerAcceptedDestroyedImagine That Author:Josef Koudelka
“I think we're entering a new period of filmmaking that's analogous to switching from black-and-white to color, or from silent to sound. The medium is completely flexible, and it's not bound by anything. If you imagine something, you can do it.” IfsThinkingSoundBlackCan DoWhiteImagineColorPeriodsSilentBoundsMediumsFilmmakingBlack And WhiteEnteringYou Can Do ItFlexibleSwitching Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet
“More generally, people who lived in a period when maternal, infant and childhood mortality were still high would have been tougher than most of us can imagine.” PeopleHas BeensStillsImagineChildhoodPeriodsMortalityInfant Author:Marilynne Robinson
“I believe that the Lord has a plan for each of us that's better than anything we can imagine, even if that plan isn't obvious to us at every stage. He prepared me for this over a long period of time - in lower-profile locker rooms and the grocery store and in Europe, through all the personal tragedies and in spite of the people who doubted me along the way.” PeopleIfsWayBelieveLongI BelieveRoomsLordImaginePlansStagePeriodsEuropeTragedyPreparedObviousStoresSpiteGroceriesProfileDoubtedLockersGrocery StoresLong Periods Of TimeLocker RoomPersonal Tragedy Author:Kurt Warner
“One could imagine a period like Japan13 years ago, however, in which indexing over time wouldn't work.” YearsImaginePeriodsYears AgoIndexing Author:Charlie Munger
“I'm not ready to die. Period. To begin with, I cannot imagine a future without me in it. Can't do it.” DeathDiesImagineReadyPeriodsNot ReadyReady To Die Book:Cancer on Five Dollars a Day Chemo Not Included: How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life Source: Cancer on Five Dollars a Day Chemo Not Included: How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life
“It's something fundamental to me, human rights that people are equal under law simply because they are human beings. And I can no more imagine falling in love with someone who believed, for instance, as Orthodox Jews do, that women are unclean during their menstrual periods.” PeopleHumansI CanLawFallHuman BeingsRightsImaginePeriodsEqualFundamentalsFalling In LoveHuman RightsJewInstanceOrthodox Author:Susan Jacoby
“I had to imagine myself into certain aspects of [Julian Assange] character for our version of events. That involved extrapolating based on clues in his biography, his public persona, photographs, and other accounts of him by people who encountered him during that extraordinary period from 2007 to 2010 that we charted in the film [The Fifth Estate]. So, it involved a lot of research but, sadly, no contact with the man himself.” PeopleMenCharacterFilmCertainImagineEventsHe ManInvolvedPeriodsResearchAspectAccountsExtraordinaryPhotographVersionsContactEstatesBiographiesClueFifthPersonaAssange Author:Benedict Cumberbatch