Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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• I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Life
  • Growing
  • Kind

• The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Doing

• I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Music
  • Broken
  • Down

• If we end up with war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran at the same time, can anyone see a more damaging prospect for America's world role than that?

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Science

• I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Role
  • News
  • Evening

• Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do.

  

  B. B. King
  • Love
  • Job
  • Road

• Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Society

• It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Up
  • Character
  • Man

• If you've been on the covers of some magazines and been in a few movies that have been seen by people, for some reason, women seem to be drawn to you.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Women
  • Movies

• A relatively young woman is perceived as younger than a relatively young man.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Young Man

• Commit yourself to an organization or cause that genuinely fires you up.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Up
  • You
  • Yourself

• You know what enormous harm we have been dealt by the publication of Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago. Everybody who has read your book, everybody who has seen the reviews are convinced that the potential harm from your 'Life and Fate' would be far more dangerous than that of Doctor Zhivago.

  

  Vasily Grossman
  • Life
  • Book
  • Fate

• So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • World
  • Live
  • Pretty

• Grade die Individualität ist das Ursprüngliche und Ewige im Menschen; an der Personalität ist so viel nicht gelegen. Die Bildung und Entwicklung dieser Individualität als höchsten Beruf zu treiben, wäre ein göttlicher Egoismus.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Die

• Life, struck sharp on death,Makes awful lightning. His last word was, 'Love–'Love, my child, love, love!'–(then he had done with grief)'Love, my child.' Ere I answered he was gone,And none was left to love in all the world.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Life
  • World
  • Done

• I could have been somebody in this world wasn’t for him.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • World

• In 200 years will people remember us as traitors or heros? That is the question we must ask.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • People
  • Remember
  • Question

• The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

  

  Jawaharlal Nehru

• '100 Bullets' is probably my favorite thing, ever. It's pretty close with early 'Hellboy' stuff.

  

  Jonathan Hickman
  • Pretty

• My models were oral, were storytellers. Like my grandmothers and my aunts. It's true, a lot of people in my life were not literate in a formal sense, but they were storytellers. So I had this experience of just watching somebody spin a tale off the top of her head. I loved that.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Life
  • Experience

• Too many entrepreneurs think their valuation is the real economic price of their company. It's not. It's not a real economic price unless you are selling 100%.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Real

• But now I know that there is no killing A thing like Love, for it laughs at Death. There is no hushing, there is no stilling That which is part of your life and breath. You may bury it deep, and leave behind you The land, the people that knew your slain; It will push the sods from its grave, and find you On wastes of water or desert plain.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb