Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.
Quotes to Explore
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man's success.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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Focus on being balanced - success is balance.
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Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it's just an extension of childhood play... Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don't need any director telling them, 'You really have to believe in it.' They believe in it completely.
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As governor, I enjoy the opportunity to talk about Utah's measurable business success.
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My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.
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There are so many immigrant-led success stories in the United States, and the fact that it's gotten so much harder for educated folks to stay here is really unfortunate.
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Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
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The success of 'Kick' will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in.
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The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can succeed.
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It is difficult to survive as an author in Sweden, so for commercial success, it is good idea to write crime, get yourself translated, and live happily ever after.
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We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break.
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When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.
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I have never worked for fame or praise, and shall not feel their loss as I otherwise would. I have never for a moment lost sight of the humble life I was born to, its small environments, and the consequently little right I had to expect much of myself, and shall have the less to censure, or upbraid myself with for the failures I must see myself make.
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Most of the great books on prayer are written by 'experts' - monks, missionaries, mystics, saints. I've read scores of them, and mainly they make me feel guilty.
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Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.
