Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
Oskar Schindler
I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
Harland Williams
Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
Nastia Liukin
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
Adam Clayton
U2
The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
Rain
When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
Malorie Blackman
Our objective is always to win. Every day, every game, and every competition.
Neymar
When a dish works, it works for everyone, whether you're Asian, European, African, American or anybody else.
Joel Robuchon
Acting is like a sporting match; a tennis game, but no one should win or lose. The game's the thing!
Jon Polito
They're hitting harder now more than ever. The only person who would argue that is someone who has never had a physics class. They're faster and stronger, so the reality is the collisions have to be bigger.
Randy Cross
A little oil makes machinery work easy.
Sara Willis
Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb