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Thinking Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile…
- Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.
- We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.
- Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
- I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
- The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
- I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too…
- They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding…
- The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the…
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- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think. — J. J. Abrams
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I don't think I have a signature. — J. J. Abrams
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- The soul never thinks without a picture. — Aristotle
- I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I… — J. J. Abrams
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams