Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.
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I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.
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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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I'm an artist, and I'm a bit weird, and I'm probably a bit eccentric.
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Be real with yourself in whatever area of your life and your game that you need improvement on. Once you figure that out, you just have to go out and work on it. For me, it's footwork. I constantly work on it, and it's a never-ending process.
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The Web provides a very easy way to immediately grasp what's going on. It really offers the transparency, so you can see, especially with the search engine, how people are using Twitter at one glance. The phone doesn't allow for that.
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The development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one.
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You'll see me on 'Top Chef' someday. My Midwestern hospitality needs an outlet, you know?
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Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on Earth is also often a carryover of astral experiences between a person's earth lives.
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I'm the type of person to put myself in everybody else's shoes.
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Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
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I plan on working out for the first part of the day, because if I let my day get away from me, the workout is out the window!
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For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.
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I always have trouble with titles for my books. I usually have no title until the editor has to present the book and calls me frantically, 'Judy, we need a title.
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Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were young──now you are even younger.
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It’s harder to say no when you really mean it.
