Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
The sucker’s trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don’t know, rather than the reverse.Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got a face that was meant for a mug shot, and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years.
M. C. Gainey -
Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.
Edmund Phelps -
When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
Jack Kevorkian -
We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.
Ingrid Betancourt -
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
Gary Hume
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
Ted Dekker -
I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
Carl Sandburg -
When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
Karl Marlantes -
In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
Tadao Ando -
You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
Sai Baba -
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
E. L. Doctorow
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I think that what happens for many Christians is, they accept their particular faith, they accept it to be true, and they stop examining it. Consequently, because it's already accepted to be true, they don't examine other people's faiths... That, I think, is not healthy for a person of any faith.
Adam Hamilton -
After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
Brown Campbell -
The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
Carlos Santana Santana -
A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.
Zebulon Pike -
From my perspective, probably women are won over by people who are sweet and respectful and courteous and kind and funny. I think those are the things that win women over.
Zooey Deschanel -
There's no such thing as 'too much TV,' unless we're all spending more and not watching more.
Ted Sarandos
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The rail service is important for my district.
Jerry Weller -
We need more foreign reach; no question about that. And we're working on getting that. We need more people abroad; we need some more bureaus. That is really an important job.
Brit Hume -
Vertical search engines that match your business, service or products with a target market offer you a higher conversion rate than traditional search engines. Because they have already qualified their interest by coming to a search engine with a specific focus, searchers will be more receptive to targeted advertising.
Marc Ostrofsky -
The U.S. Supreme Court has established that the tribes own their water. What I'd like to focus on is doing something with the water that results in economic development.
Dave Freudenthal -
If my company spends money, it should be disclosed to the shareholders and how it was spent. With my personal money, I can do anything I want. But company money should be disclosed.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
The sucker’s trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don’t know, rather than the reverse.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb