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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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Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The most radical question which anyone can be asked is not how much their possessions cost, but whether they have found something…
— Alister E. McGrath
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Hugs are part of everybody life for me. Hug all sorts of people - I don't worry about it looking unmanly or…
— A J McLean
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I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. CATS, he…
— Terry Pratchett
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Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped…
— Brené Brown
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By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.
— Susan Lieberman
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I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while? Death thought about it Cats,…
— Terry Pratchett
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Hugs are part of everybody life for me. Ill hug all sorts of people- I dont worry about it looking unmanly or…
— AJ McLean
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Who are we to judge another when we ourselves are held accountable for so many different wrongs, accept people for who they…
— Ayjee Grogan
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MARRIAGE, Is only compatible when the man makes a living and his wife makes living worthwhile;
— Nikhil Saluja
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