Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.

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• Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Beauty
  • Self
  • Most

• Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Think
  • Existence
  • Jews

• We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Women
  • Home
  • Management

• After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Money
  • Success
  • Kind

• If the television market collapses - and it will collapse - then, it seems, there is too much regulation, and that's not a good thing.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Good
  • Television
  • Too Much

• Time is generally the best doctor.

  

  Ovid
  • Time
  • Best
  • Medical

• After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Future
  • Support
  • Responsibility

• The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be mental and even spiritual enrichment: a more expansive sense of who we humans are, existentially, and where we came from, and how we fit with other life on earth.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Change

• If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Good
  • Song
  • Take

• I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Love
  • Animal
  • Favorite

• I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.

  

  Sam Tsui
  • Music
  • Writing
  • College

• I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • See
  • Lucky
  • Museum

• I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • World
  • Work
  • History

• For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Play
  • Religious
  • Now

• I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Trying
  • Been
  • Washington

• I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Trying
  • Change
  • Question

• Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Matter
  • Egg
  • Duck

• For me, the Congress party is now my life, the people of India are my life, and I will fight for the people of India and for this party.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • People
  • Life
  • Party

• In A-ball, you're either going to move up, or you're going to get released. That kind of paranoia played a lot into the players' mentality leading up to the events of 'Eight Men Out.'

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Up
  • Men
  • You

• We're trying to make money, trying to add a zero onto our net worth.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Add

• I'm reticent to say much more, but we would like to begin in the coming year. We'd like to shoot through the seasons because of the passage of time. This project is the great love of my life.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• Federal waste is a grave disservice to hardworking taxpayers across our great nation, and yet our governmental bureaucracies are riddled with it - whether through unnecessary, duplicative, inefficient, outdated, or failed agencies and programs.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Great
  • Nation
  • Great Nation

• Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Why
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• Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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