Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

The casino is the only human venture I know where the probabilities are known, Gaussian (i.e., bell-curve), and almost computable.

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• I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too upsetting for me to write about them. Naturally, I still hope, and wait, wait, wait.

  

  Otto Frank
  • Children
  • Hope
  • Think

• Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

  

  Eduard Hanslick
  • True
  • Beautiful
  • Imagination

• I've always wanted to do my best to make sure it's clear that I want to keep the focus on my music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Focus
  • Best

• A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Lost

• It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Body
  • Now
  • Short

• I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • Education
  • Film
  • Training

• The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • Education
  • Stress
  • Student

• I have to find work wherever it might be hiding.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Work
  • Find
  • Hiding

• Find combinations of flavors you love and buy the best quality ingredients you can afford. Your food is only going to be as good as the sum of its parts, like anything else.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Good
  • Love
  • Food

• If it were true that special favors were given to some of these people because they are my cronies, then they should still be here, and they should be wealthy. But who are these cronies? If there be any cronies in government, point them out, and we will investigate.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • True
  • Government

• You're an artist when you're writing, a businessperson the rest of the time.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Rest

• The word vagina is a beautiful word, like all words that have v's and g's in them, like gavel, or evangelical. I love vaginas, and evangelicals. I fucking hate gavels though.8

  

  Ze Frank
  • Beautiful
  • Words
  • Hate

• The world as a whole is full of problems and difficulties and it is most important that every country which loves its Freedom and wants to maintain its Independence and sovereignty should work for peace and try to see that there is disarmament in the world which alone will lead to real peace.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • World
  • Work
  • Important

• If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • World
  • Light
  • Sun

• How did we become so intrigued by risk – and so worried about it at the same time?

  

  Ben Carson
  • Time
  • Risk

• To make a bank was a great plot of state;Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate.

  

  Andrew Marvell
  • Great

• I'm more like a spoon symbol. I think women just want to spoon me.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Women

• The industry's changed so much that you can't just design something, put on a great show, and say, 'Okay, my job is done.'

  

  Alexander Wang
  • Great
  • Done
  • Job

• We have to learn. We have to listen to where people are. We have to listen to where the Spirit is working in the lives of people.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • People

• Whereas the good news had first been published for its own sake with no concern for success, now ineluctably success brought, as always, a desire for it. … They were not aware of what was happening, namely, that society was inverting Christianity instead of being subverted by it.

  

  Jacques Ellul
  • Good
  • Success
  • Society

• You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that language is where the other, parallel violence, the cruelty exercised on the body, originates.

  

  Ariel Dorfman
  • World
  • Free
  • Humanity

• By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog.

  

  Barbara Holland
  • Dog
  • Teaching
  • Animals

• There's always a tension between those who would like to garner wealth, and they contribute a lot to society. There's also those who say, 'I believe in the common good. I want that to be enlarged.' They contribute a lot to society. The tension, the debate, between these two views is extremely important to our progress.

  

  John Sulston
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Important

• The casino is the only human venture I know where the probabilities are known, Gaussian (i.e., bell-curve), and almost computable.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb