Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.

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• But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Good
  • Family
  • Money

• I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Yoga

• Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Democracy
  • Form
  • Worship

• I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Experience
  • Religious
  • Never

• There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Treasure
  • Pirate
  • Island

• In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Weird
  • Creative
  • Intelligence

• In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Movies
  • Time Passes

• I've just never been a tracksuit-wearer.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Never
  • Just
  • Been

• When I moved in, I said, 'I don't care how this makes me look or sound: I am converting one of these bedrooms into a shoe closet.' It's become more of a dressing room, but one wall is shoes in their perfect cubbies.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Dressing
  • Shoe
  • Closet

• I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'

  

  Gary Jennings
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • People
  • Death
  • Dying

• I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • Me
  • Film
  • Choose

• Among the old Norse, it was the custom for certain warriors to dress in the skins of the beasts they had slain, and thus to give themselves an air of ferocity, calculated to strike terror into the hearts of their foes.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Air
  • Old
  • Dress

• It's time for women to wake up, to use the power of the vote, to honor the suffragists who chained themselves to the White House fence so that women could vote.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Women

• When I was 17 years old, Frank DiLeo saw my very first music video and flew to my hometown of Las Vegas to meet with my family and me. Frank told my dad, 'I am coming out of retirement to manage one last big act: Manika.'

  

  Manika
  • Music
  • Family
  • Dad

• God helps those who fear Him.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • God
  • Fear
  • Him

• Eddie Alvarez, man, he's a tough guy.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Tough

• Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Solitude

• I combine magic and science to create illusions. I work with new media and interactive technologies, things like artificial intelligence or computer vision, and integrate them in my magic.

  

  Marco Tempest
  • Work
  • Science
  • Vision

• Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Men
  • Women
  • Virtue

• It's good for you to go somewhere that you wouldn't normally go.

  

  Stephen Root
  • To Go
  • Somewhere
  • Normally

• 'What matters,' Sister Vigilante says, 'is, people need a monster they can believe in.' A true horrible enemy. A demon to define themselves against. Otherwise, it's just us versus us.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • People
  • Believe
  • True

• Who are your heroes? Why do you look up to them? Why do we respect those who live and think for themselves as opposed to doing what is expected? We all admire the idea of living a life unbound by thoughts of fear. People who seem to live that dream inspire us to want to do the same. They mirror the qualities that we possess but are too scared to access.

  

  Kat Von D
  • People
  • Dream
  • Scared

• Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb