Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

When conflicted between two choices, take neither.

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• Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.

  

  Barbara Goldsmith
  • Art
  • History
  • Question

• Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • People
  • Nice
  • Makeup

• I think I was given a gift to play golf and to be mentally strong.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Strong
  • Golf
  • Gift

• I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.

  

  Indiana Evans
  • Great
  • Always
  • Thought

• I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Human
  • Try
  • Emotions

• From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Dad

• You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Up
  • Light
  • Control

• You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.

  

  Adam Oates
  • Different
  • Long
  • Day

• Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Work
  • Singing
  • See

• Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • World
  • Think
  • Problems

• If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

  

  Nate Silver
  • You
  • Get
  • Representative

• The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • House
  • Television
  • Tax

• I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.

  

  Barry McGee
  • School
  • Art
  • Kids

• He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.

  

  Fra Angelico
  • Live
  • Story
  • Wishes

• I'm obsessed with 'Homeland.' It's not even okay.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Obsessed
  • Okay
  • Homeland

• Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze - just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they're all 'Made in Italy.' We have the premier opera house in the world, La Scala, and behind the Nobel given to CERN is the research of many Italians.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • World
  • House
  • Best

• Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Wanted
  • Silly
  • Though

• I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English. I speak bad Turkish and utter stupid sentences.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Bad
  • English
  • Stupid

• It's tricky to say 'never,' but I will never have plastic surgery.

  

  Lili Taylor

• I've noticed that the more adventurous and in that mode that I am, it seems that the more the audience really likes it.

  

  Chick Corea

• Attachment to the past and fears concerning the future not only govern the way you select the things you own but also represent the criteria by which you make choices in every aspect of your life, including your relationships with people and your job.

  

  Marie Kondo
  • People
  • Life
  • Job

• If I'm listening to country, it's Hank Williams, George Jones, Merle Haggard and stuff like that. If people out there don't take that stuff seriously, well, they just haven't listened to it and don't know what they're talking about.

  

  Buzz Osborne
  • People
  • Country
  • Listening

• I deeply, deeply believe in the mystical laws. I know that every thought sends an eternity in motion.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Believe
  • Eternity

• When conflicted between two choices, take neither.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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