Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.

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• I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Day
  • Daily
  • Changes

• I went to Briar Cliff College initially, and then I transferred to Georgetown University, because I was a Russian major, and I was one of two girls accepted that year. This was September 1969 - well, that would have been 1970 - into the School Of Languages And Linguistics in Georgetown.

  

  P. J. Soles
  • School
  • College
  • Year

• You just remember back when you were watching as a kid and going, 'Man, Sting's so cool,' and now I'm wrestling the guy. It's breathtaking.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Remember
  • Guy
  • Man

• There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • High
  • Man
  • Society

• Being queen is overrated.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Being
  • Queen
  • Overrated

• I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Guy
  • Never
  • Punk

• Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Art
  • Subject
  • Idealism

• When Ignatius understood that God did not wish him to remain at Jerusalem, he began to consider what he should do. The plan he approved and adopted was to enter upon a course of study in order to be better fitted to save souls.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • Wish
  • Study

• Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Simple

• You can't be sent away to prison for life and feel OK about it.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • Feel
  • Prison

• I am a feminist - I just think the label reflects my beliefs - but, you know, we say 'Rookie' is a website for teenage girls, not a feminist website for teenage girls. That's not because I'm not proud to call myself a feminist, but when you're calling attention to a project, you can very easily be pigeonholed by choosing certain identifiers.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Feminist
  • Project
  • Beliefs

• Fortunately, I'm known as the hardest-working woman in showbiz, not to compete with James Brown. I've always been a multi-tasker.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Always
  • Woman
  • Been

• Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Science
  • Poverty
  • Prosperity

• A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Movie
  • House
  • Alone

• Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Future
  • Die
  • Rich

• If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life's goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Life
  • Vision
  • Goals

• We have, as a result of two thousand years of Christianity, sex on the brain. Which isn't always the best place for it.

  

  Alan Watts
  • Brain
  • Sex

• Meditation is not a process of learning how to meditate; it is the very inquiry into what is meditation. To inquire into what is meditation, the mind must free itself from what it has learnt about meditation, and the freeing of the mind from what it has learnt is the beginning of meditation.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Learning

• The flame will cool tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow.... But someone must see this already today, and speak heretically today about tomorrow. Heretics are the only (bitter) remedy against the entropy of human thought.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Remedy
  • Entropy
  • Heretics

• It takes time to understand the difference between civilian POWs and military POWs. There's an educational process.

  

  Gene Green
  • Time
  • Military

• I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.

  

  Chris Evans
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die, he will not even desire to offer violence. Indeed, I may put it down as a self-evident proposition that the desire to kill is in inverse proportion to the desire to die. And history is replete with instances of men who by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • History
  • Desire
  • Violence

• I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Actor

• The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb