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

• 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

• You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will.

  

  Edward Snowden
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Some of the songs I do once in a while that I kinda... my set list is basically like my hits, there is a good reason why they are there; people really like them.

  

  Joe Cocker
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• In complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting.

  

  Steven Weinberg
  • Interesting
  • Simplicity
  • Complexity

• Vivametrica isn't the only company vying for control of the fitness data space. There is considerable power in becoming the default standard-setter for health metrics. Any company that becomes the go-to data analysis group for brands like Fitbit and Jawbone stands to make a lot of money.

  

  Kate Crawford
  • Money
  • Power
  • Control

• In history people dressed much better than we do today.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • People
  • Today

• It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.

  

  Sean Hannity
  • Church
  • Politics
  • Constitution

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

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb