Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

You can tell how uninteresting a person is by asking him whom he finds interesting.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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• Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • World
  • Family

• It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.

  

  Yael Stone
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Know

• When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved, and the characters are always really interesting.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Interesting
  • Enjoy
  • Story

• Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.

  

  Beck
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Find

• When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Study

• Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Road

• Nowadays, you can be a fan of someone that's not an actor or artist. You can be a fan of someone that makes YouTube videos.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Artist
  • Actor
  • YouTube

• When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Interesting

• Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.

  

  Iman
  • Great
  • Interesting
  • Beauty

• Love, and do what you like.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Love
  • You
  • Like

• You have to ask yourself if you want to be the kind of actress who's interesting, or the kind of actress who's meant to play the pretty-but-uninteresting wife of a chubby guy on a network sitcom.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Guy
  • Pretty
  • Interesting

• I wish I had more confidence. I think that's probably my Achilles' heel. If I had more, I probably would have felt emboldened to make more interesting music earlier on, or really go for it in an artistic or songwriting sense.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Interesting
  • Wish

• The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • World
  • Interesting

• I don't like to just talk about nothing, or less than nothing. If it's something interesting, I'm fine with it, but, 'Hey, Zack, how is your day?' People ask that, and somebody actually tells them what happened in their day? I don't have any real interest in that.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • People
  • Real
  • Interesting

• Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Good
  • Character
  • Interesting

• All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just clearly sociopathic, because they're not. It's interesting to explore the shadings and nuances within a person. Those feelings exist within more human beings than people may want to acknowledge.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • May
  • Interesting

• As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.

  

  Karen Allen
  • People
  • Money
  • Interesting

• Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Experience
  • Interesting
  • Brain

• I love to sing, but I really only love to do it when it goes along with acting, when it's my character singing. I'd rather not do an album or tour.

  

  Meaghan Jette Martin
  • Character
  • Singing

• When I got married and when my sister got married, my mom made us both individual cooking books with all of our family recipes and pictures and kind of the history with our Sicilian family, so that was really special.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Family
  • History
  • Mom

• The force that unites the elements to become all things is Love, also called Aphrodite; Love brings together dissimilar elements into a unity, to become a composite thing. Love is the same force that human beings find at work in themselves whenever they feel joy, love and peace. Strife, on the other hand, is the force responsible for the dissolution of the one back into its many, the four elements of which it was composed.

  

  Empedocles
  • Force
  • Elements
  • Unites

• Much noise has been about size diversity but not enough about skin tone diversity. It's time for this to change.

  

  Philomena Kwao
  • Time
  • Diversity

• You can tell how uninteresting a person is by asking him whom he finds interesting.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Interesting