Real world Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Flights are expansive moments when the phone doesn't ring and the Internet doesn't work. The maxim that flying time is wasted time liberates me…

— Etgar Keret

“Jumping out of a perfectly good air plane is like driving through life without a good set of brakes.”

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

“Impulsivity is something akin to spontaneously jumping out of an airplane and not realizing that you forgot something until about five seconds before impact.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Are we really living in a time where we still need to remind people not to smoke on airplanes? Like...For real?

— JoJo

“Who cares who puts whose stick in whose hole? Ultimately, we must all fly our own airplane. Why waste our invaluable time on the…

— Aindra Das

“Sometimes you need to crash a couple of times to learn your mistakes, and then when the smoke clears, sometimes you’re better off in…

— K. Bromberg

“Like any good teacher, she tolerated little dissension. She smoked and talked and ate for an hour without stopping, and I scribbled in my…

— John Green

Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly…

— Henri Bergson

“A lot of impulsive mistakes are made by people who simply aren’t willing to stay bored a little longer.”

— Paul Aurandt

“the absurdity of a smoking skyscraper.”

— Hugh Howey

“For the rest of history, for most of us, our bright promise will always fall short of being actualised; it will never earn us…

— Alain de Botton

“Sometimes the most consequential moments in my life originate from a state of completely witless human auto-pilot.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo