Disdain Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Download Open image “Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disdain Greatness Hatred Polite Replacements
Greatness is never appreciated in youth, called pride in midlife, dismissed in old age, and reconsidered in death. Because we cannot tolerate greatness in… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Greatness is a joruny it start wit the inposible and turns to the unforgetable — Elliot Stella Copy Share Image
Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it. — Lionel Richie Copy Share Image
True greatness merely refuses to change in the face of bad actions against one—and a truly great person loves his fellows because he understands… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Greatness comes from those who find away to express it regardless of how limited their resources maybe.. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind. — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Greatness is a journey that begins with the impossible and turns in to the unforgettable. — Miguel Torres Copy Share Image
Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“One needs to go out and buy a lottery ticket in order to win. Does it mean that the work involved in the trip… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“If you are looking for your misplaced wallet in your living room, in a trial and error mode, you exercise rationality by not looking… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Most humans manage to squander their free time, as free time makes them dysfunctional, lazy, and unmotivated—the busier they get, the more active they… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you increase the number of rockets you build and you buy, then it's the scale of the economy, the price is going to… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.” — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
In each human heart terror survives The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear All that they would disdain to think were true: Hypocrisy… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts.… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
It seems I have a hard time being attracted to someone unless I respect what they do on some level. Otherwise, I would feel… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for. — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
I've always found that word [“hipster”] is used with such disdain, like it's always used by chubby bloggers who aren't getting laid anymore and… — Gavin McInnes Copy Share Image
I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
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