Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotes to Explore
-
I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
Kate McKinnon -
Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
D. B. Sweeney -
I want to help people; that's it.
Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson -
My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
Ada Yonath -
I've been doing African dance all my life.
Naima Adedapo -
Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.
Rachel Bilson
-
A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
Sam Graves -
When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.
Orville Wright -
I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life.
Patricia Polacco -
When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.
Fay Wray -
In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
Victor Kiam -
When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.
Gael Garcia Bernal
-
I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
Ted Nugent -
It's all matchups, and I knew that I matched up well against 'Rumble' Johnson.
Daniel Cormier -
I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.
Yoko Ono -
I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
Iain Banks -
My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
N. Scott Momaday -
I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.
Tayari Jones
-
I would like to explore comedy more. It's not something that I've done a lot of. Obviously, I'm very at home in drama. I like everything.
Jessica Pare -
I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement -
Doesn't Joe Wilson owe the President and American an apology for his deception and his own intelligence failure? — March 15, 2004
Jeff Gannon -
Shuffling really isn't something you should be doing on your deathbed.
Michael Ian Black -
If you're writing songs by yourself, who's going to tell you if it's good or not? But if you're writing songs with somebody else, you get that immediate feedback.
Glenn Frey The Eagles -
When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb