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Nassim Nicholas Taleb has 219 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's going on.…
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Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or…
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Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities…
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...maximize the serendipity around you.
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Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.
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Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
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He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
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Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.
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Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be…
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This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.
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Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these…
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But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.
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When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work…
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I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did…
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I was sort of traumatized by girls in the third grade. Because there was a girl in my third grade class I…
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I'd rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
— E E Cummings
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Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Haters are just confused admirers.
— Justin Bieber
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Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves!
— Constantin Stanislavski
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The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say…
— Angus Wilson
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Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and…
— Benjamin Moser
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I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly…
— Flannery O'Connor
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