Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
Our greatest asset is the one we distrust the most: the built-in antifragility of certain risk-taking systems.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.
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You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
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And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
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Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
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People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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But death's acquisitive instincts will win.
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
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One of the things I love about music is live performance.
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There's plenty of firm evidence for ethnic diversity in Roman Britain.
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I try to motivate people and align our individual incentives with organizational incentives. And then let people do their best.
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The only purpose in requesting it was to demand the release of the Americans that they’ve detained, given the sensitivity of that subject, I don’t want to go beyond what I said, that I requested the meeting, and I did have a discussion with them, and that’s as much as I can say on it.
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You can't live off of just greasy fatty foods and stayin' up till six in the mornin' just partyin'. You gotta take care of yourself.
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There is no risk factor at all, the odds don't matter at all, because the odds of Law of Attraction are 100%.
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Our greatest asset is the one we distrust the most: the built-in antifragility of certain risk-taking systems.
