Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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• Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Desire
  • Principle
  • Obsession

• My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Kids
  • Influence

• At age 26, I was chairman of UB Group but living like a 26-year-old. I lived my age. Which youngster doesn't like a Ferrari? Which youngster doesn't like a good time?... but my contemporaries were R. S. Goenka and Dhirubhai Ambani, captains of the industry but twice my age. You wouldn't necessarily expect them to be driving around in Ferraris.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Time
  • Good
  • Age

• You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Thinking
  • Mother
  • Yourself

• Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Small

• Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Character

• The main interest of most members of the Christian Coalition is the breakdown of the family. I think that's our biggest problem, and if the whole country was as concerned and active in issues of the family as members of the Christian Coalition are, we'd probably be better off as a country.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Country
  • Family
  • Problem

• When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • You
  • Best
  • Self

• My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Writing
  • Old
  • Old Days

• Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Long
  • Age
  • Youth

• Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Marriage
  • Never
  • Name

• As a kid, my dad would take me to see indie films when I would visit him in New York. Films that I just wouldn't see growing up in the Bay Area.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Me

• I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Interested
  • Beliefs
  • Forcing

• I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me any jobs. There's a lot of sexism and objectification, and a lot of people put you down.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • People
  • Me
  • Down

• The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • American
  • Community

• Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It's a story about a young woman who was given a precious opportunity to work her way up in the world. It's a story about resiliency, and sacrifice, and perseverance. And you're damn right it's a true story.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Elected
  • First Lady

• KRS One and LL Cool J are the biggest influences in my rap career, along with Heavy D.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Career
  • Cool
  • Rap

• I don't write historical novels but novels that wonder, 'And what if it happened in this way and not in this other one?'

  

  Alvaro Enrigue
  • Wonder

• At that time, I was signed to Columbia Records as an Independent Producer. I spent many weeks forming, auditioning, rehearsing and recording demos for Kenny, who was finally signed to Columbia Records.

  

  Jim Messina Buffalo Springfield
  • Time
  • Independent

• Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish - only bless.

  

  Artur Schnabel
  • Music
  • Words
  • Sunshine

• The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or the psyche. These are the ideas that are essential to science fiction. The phenomena change, the basic ideas do not. These ideas are the same philosophical concepts that have intrigued mankind throughout history.

  

  Kate Wilhelm
  • Science
  • Mankind
  • Philosophical

• I feel more like an American citizen now than I ever had, and it's artistically fulfilling.

  

  Phillipa Soo
  • American

• Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb