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Makes Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities invaluable because you…
- What kills me makes others stronger,
- An elephant is vastly more efficient, metabolically, than a mouse. It's the same for a megacity as opposed to a village. But an elephant can…
- If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask…
- The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because…
- If there is something in nature you don't understand, odds are it makes sense in a deeper way that is beyond your understanding. So there…
- Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also…
- Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.
- If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts…
More Makes Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch. — Mary Kay Ash
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. — Lucius Accius
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. — David Attenborough
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. — Saint Augustine