Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

We didn't get where we are thanks to the sissy notion of resilience.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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• You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Family
  • You
  • Know

• I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Black

• My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Why
  • Mom

• As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for an hour and a half, 4 days a week. Two days upper body, two days lower.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Body
  • Week
  • Gym

• I love 'The Wire;' that's my favorite show, so I'll watch that.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Show
  • Favorite
  • Watch

• I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Father

• The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• I never lie to my fans.

  

  Becky G
  • Never
  • Fans
  • Lie

• A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Writing
  • Want

• In 'Rocky' and 'Paradise Alley,' my dad played very expressive characters, and he was out there.

  

  Sage Stallone
  • Dad
  • Paradise
  • Rocky

• I feel happy to terrify kids.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Kids
  • Happy
  • Feel

• I had more pressure when I competed in Moscow. I had no pressure in Montreal because I only went to do my routines and hoping I didn't mess it up when I was on the bar. When I came back, 10,000 people were at the airport and I thought, 'Why?' because, in my mind, I hadn't done anything different from what I used to do in my gym.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Why
  • Man

• Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Laughter

• Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Always
  • Nasty
  • Smiling

• Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Home
  • Black
  • Fate

• For the prevision is allied Unto the thing so signified; Or say, the foresight that awaits Is the same Genius that creates.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.

  

  Emanuel Celler
  • Men
  • Author

• It's very easy to imagine someone online in a positive way, but it's only when you sit down, with all five senses in play, that you can really tell, 'Do I find this person attractive?'

  

  Joanna Coles
  • Positive

• I was given such a great gift. It's a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I'll be. I just want to be a better man.

  

  Jake Owen
  • Great
  • Amazing
  • Wife

• Gay marriage has jumped out of the closet on to the front page. Everyone from the president of the U.S. to retired four-star general Colin Powell is embracing the issue, now supported by most Americans. Still, a few people, like former First Lady Laura Bush appear to be conflicted.

  

  Kitty Kelley
  • People
  • Star
  • Marriage

• All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.

  

  J. Anthony Lukas
  • People
  • Writing

• We didn't get where we are thanks to the sissy notion of resilience.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Thanks
  • Resilience