Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
Our greatest asset is the one we distrust the most: the built-in antifragility of certain risk-taking systems.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.
Zoe Lister-Jones -
You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
Malcolm McDowell -
And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
Karlheinz Stockhausen -
Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.
Madeleine Stowe -
An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
Lascelles Abercrombie
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If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
Calvin Peete -
At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
Candice Swanepoel -
I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
Kate Bosworth -
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
Queen Elizabeth II -
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
Nadine Gordimer -
For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
Paracelsus
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People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.
Yancy Butler -
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Beatrix Potter -
But death's acquisitive instincts will win.
Harold Brodkey -
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Gail Sheehy -
The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
Salma Hayek -
One of the things I love about music is live performance.
Yo-Yo Ma
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It's a completely reasonable diet -- heavy on fruits and vegetables and fresh, seasonal foods. I'm totally for it. It's common sense in a nice package.
Marion Nestle -
One of the changes I'm driving within Nokia is to adopt what we call 'the challenger mindset.' Let's understand that we have to fight, we have to fight our way through the difficulties, we have to listen to consumers, we have to both deliver what they need and also have some creativity and insight and deliver what the don't yet know they need.
Stephen Elop -
Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it.
Ville Valo HIM -
Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go.
Martha Beck -
Our greatest asset is the one we distrust the most: the built-in antifragility of certain risk-taking systems.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb