Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
-
More modern poetry is written than read.
-
Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
-
There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.
-
When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
-
Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
-
The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
-
The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong.
-
Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'
-
I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
-
When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
-
Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We've made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable.
-
The '$O$' phase, it was like, 'Save Our Souls': we didn't know how we were going to get out of our situation... It was our last chance just to go all out. 'Ten$ion' was another phase, to maintain the tension we had, just to pretend nothing had happened and stay in that same furious, hungry zone.
-
Human nature is above all things lazy.
-
I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
-
I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
-
Health food makes me sick.
-
Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
-
Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
-
Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
-
We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
-
At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
-
My first memory of the Rolling Stones is listening to 'Satisfaction' at a sixth-grade slumber party at a friend's house in Ankara, Turkey, where my family was living at the time. In the middle of our sleepover, my friend's dad stopped the record when he heard the words 'girlie action!'
-
You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
