« All Careerism Quotes
·
Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Page
Careerism Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
1 Careerism quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
More Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb has 219 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's going on.…
-
Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or…
-
Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities…
-
...maximize the serendipity around you.
-
Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.
-
Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
-
He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
-
Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.
-
Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be…
-
This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.
-
Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these…
-
But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.
See all 219 quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb »
More Careerism Quotes
Popular Careerism quotes from across the collection:
-
In an era when careerism dominates the campus, is it too much to expect students to go beyond their private interests, learn…
— Ernest L. Boyer
-
It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving up as…
— Allen Ginsberg
-
The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports…
— Glenn Greenwald
-
Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can…
— Bell Hooks
-
Careerism is the determination to reign in hell rather than serve in heaven.
— Hugh Nibley
-
Liberating oneself from the addiction of consumerism and careerism promotes inner peace.
— David Shi
-
It wasn't that expectations changed. But [teens] went from general expectations of success to having no idea of the right thing to…
— Michael Medved
-
The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
-
Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious…
— Joan Didion
See all Careerism Quotes »
Browse Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes by Category