Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.

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• I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.

  

  Sam Riley
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• Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.

  

  Kat Graham
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• Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.

  

  Owain Yeoman
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• When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
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• In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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• Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.

  

  Bam Margera
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• If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Time
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• I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Art
  • American
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• More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
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• I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.

  

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• Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Always
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• Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
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• I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.

  

  Saina Nehwal
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• The image of Ireland is projected as a male image in the acting world, similar to the way that the word of Ireland is male dominated.

  

  Fionnula Flanagan
  • World
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• Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • People
  • Up
  • Culture

• Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.

  

  Harlan Coben
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  • Hell
  • Tragedy

• I discovered that close to half the planet is 'pristine.' We live in towns such as London, Paris or Sao Paulo and have the impression that all the pristine areas are gone, but they are not.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
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  • Gone

• I think it takes a unique temperament for a lawyer who wants to go to a start-up, because generally, by nature, it's a high-risk environment.

  

  Belinda Johnson
  • Up
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• I certainly hope 'Dragon' can leave some legacy behind.

  

  Donnie Yen
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• I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.

  

  David Hockney
  • Done
  • Space
  • Picture

• Having had cancer, one important thing to know is you're still the same person at the end. You're stripped down to near zero. But most people come out the other end feeling more like themselves than ever before.

  

  Kylie Minogue
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• When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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