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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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It takes knowledge to know something. It takes guts to do what you know.
— Pete Wentz
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Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.
— Seth Godin
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Thoughts are things. Negativity is what kills you... It's tough to do, but you've got to work at living, you know? Most…
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Why do the easy expected thing? It takes guts to follow your dreams. Courage. Many people, even those who love you, don't…
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To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.
— Queen Rania of Jordan
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We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while…
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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.
— Robert H. Schuller
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Staring down hard truth takes guts.
— Joan Bauer
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It's so easy to laugh It's so easy to hate It takes guts to be gentle and kind
— Steven Morrissey
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Total commitment," I said. "You know, the idea of discovering something that, for all intents and purposes, goes against your abilities, and…
— Sarah Dessen
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Being young is easy, you know, but it takes guts to be old.
— Blaize Clement
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Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday…
— Pema Chodron
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