Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
There is a saying that bad traders divorce their spouse sooner than abandon their positions. Loyalty to ideas is not a good thing for traders, scientists - or anyone.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
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We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine - it will be a disaster. Why we should work? So without a healthy environment of this Earth, no matter how much money you make, no matter how wonderful you are, you have a bad disaster.
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Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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I am far from denying that newspapers in democratic countries lead citizens to do very ill-considered things in common; but without newspapers there would be hardly any common action at all. So they mend many more ills than they cause.
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I do hope that our spring will be starting shortly and we will all be able to enjoy some sunshine again.
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If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.
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It's good for you to see your friends arrested. It hardens you. There's no place in our New Order for sentimentalists.
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The first discipline modernity’s originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness were made possible by low expectations of what was to be.
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There is a saying that bad traders divorce their spouse sooner than abandon their positions. Loyalty to ideas is not a good thing for traders, scientists - or anyone.
