Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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• One of my strengths is connecting with the players.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Strengths
  • Connecting

• I've called myself the Pied Piper, I've called myself the Weatherman, I've called myself Kellz, I've called myself a lot of things, changing the name, switching it up, just flipping, remixing. But never to harm anybody. Never to make a deep statement for people to dig into and figure it out.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Up
  • Myself

• I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • God
  • Different
  • History

• We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Marriage
  • Will
  • Stand

• But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just that sense of romanticism and escapism and the dream of it has always been quite alluring to me, as well as that sense of becoming a character through clothes.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Character
  • Dream

• Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Life
  • Public
  • Sides

• There are so many misconceptions about me, and it gets frustrating no matter how thick skinned.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Matter
  • Frustrating
  • Gets

• Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • True
  • Opportunity
  • Peace

• Kudos to you for generating enough sweat that it actually drips off of your body - and all over the machine you are using at the time. If you sweat a lot, that's fine, but wipe down the damn machine when you're done... or I will confront you, and it will not be pretty.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • Done
  • Pretty

• You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can't shift, unless you have very boyish looks.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Play
  • Yourself

• Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Truth
  • Understanding
  • Always

• In the struggle against sexual discrimination on Wall Street, Pamela K. Martens is a latter-day Rosa Parks - a woman who, metaphorically speaking, refused to sit in the back of the bus.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Woman
  • Struggle
  • Wall

• I would recommend to someone that has the money to experience the experience of giving to another and purchasing me a Veyron. A Bugatti Veyron. That will really make you want to give to your fellow man.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Money
  • Experience
  • Giving

• These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Everything
  • Read
  • Just

• The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • People
  • True
  • Leadership

• Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Education
  • Health

• I can be manipulated only so many times Before even 'I love you' starts to sound like a lie.

  

  Demi Lovato

• I think that, by and large, the predominant voice we hear in rock music is a white male voice.

  

  Corin Tucker
  • Music
  • Rock

• New York remains what it has always been : a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population and economics, a city of virtually no rest. It is harsh, dirty, and dangerous, it is whimsical and fanciful, it is beautiful and soaring - it is not one or another of these things but all of them, all at once, and to fail to accept this paradox is to deny the reality of city existence.

  

  Paul Goldberger
  • Reality
  • Dirty
  • Accepting

• Some people, their whole lives, are just injustice collectors. They’re going to find new injustices every day. That’s what they do, and that’s what they are.

  

  Lorne Michaels
  • People
  • Injustice
  • Whole

• Indeed, the U.N. is the main Soviet espionage center in this country.

  

  Jack Anderson
  • Country
  • Soviet
  • Espionage

• We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb