Injury Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Download Open image “Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Injury Life Life is Modern Modern life Stress
Stress is a disease of the 21st century. It axes years from your life. Stress affects work output, causing failure and unhappiness. We need… — Jaya Row Copy Share Image
Stress is extremely harmful to the body. Even mainstream medicine is recognizing how many diseases stress causes. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a stress-free life. No evidence has ever been presented which suggests that a stress-free life can ever be… — Gudjon Bergmann Copy Share Image
Stress is not a state of mind... it's measurable and dangerous, and humans can't seem to find their off-switch. — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Stress-free moments certainly exist, but that is the extent of it. People, who have bought into the idea of a stress-free life, believe they should be happy and positive all the time. They have been sold a damaging falsehood. As the first sentence in M. Scott Peck’s The Road Less Travelled famously said: “Life is difficult.” Learning to deal effectively… — Gudjon Bergmann Copy Share
“Chronic stress rewires your brain for self-protection, not self-production.” — Felecia Etienne Copy Share Image
“In just a few decades, dramatic changes have occurred in our relationship to stress. There are many illnesses that are now associated with stress—and… — Henry Emmons Copy Share Image
“Stress is a natural and normal part of being alive. Stress-free promises set people up for failure. Even when used with good intentions and… — Gudjon Bergmann 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
When my main character in 'Heat' climbs the tower, the highest diving platform, hoping to resume competitive diving after an injury, I am there… — Michael Cadnum Copy Share Image
Forgetting your Self is the greatest injury; all the calamities flow from it. Take care of the most important, the lesser will take care of itself. You do not tidy up a dark room. You open the windows first. Letting in the light makes everything easy. So, let us wait with improving others until we see ourselves as we are/… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share
I've played lots of games carrying an injury, but people don't value what I do for Barcelona. — Rivaldo Copy Share Image
I just have to deal with it [injuries] if and when problems happen. It's obviously a concern and I've been very careful with my… — Greg James Copy Share Image
The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless… — Colin Greenwood Copy Share
I'm pretty cautious and not very athletic, so I've only had really dumb injuries, like sprained ankles and allergic reactions. I did have to… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
Aerobic dancing is already adjusting to injury problems and will probably phase out to some extent. — Kenneth H. Cooper Copy Share Image
After I got hurt, animals to me were a great comfort, because I went through a very long, dismal period where I just felt… — Ken Wahl Copy Share Image
I think anytime you have any sort of injury, you know I've come back from a pulled hamstring in college one time, foot injuries.… — J. J. Redick Copy Share Image
Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that… — Elvis Stojko Copy Share Image