Entrapment Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Download Open image “Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Entrapment Inspirational Procrastination Soul Spirituality
Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Procrastination is the kidnapper of souls and the recruiting-officer of hell. — Edward Irving Copy Share Image
Procrastination is a sin of lawyers, trial judges, reporters, appellate judges, in brief, everyone connected with the machinery of criminal law. — Macklin Fleming Copy Share Image
Procrastination is assassination on the amazing future God has for you. — Perry Noble Copy Share Image
Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task — William James Copy Share Image
Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
I don't think of it as procrastination. I think of it as allowing my work to accumulate urgency. — Maud Newton 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
But that hair? That is comedy entrapment. People are not attacking your hair, they are defending themselves from something that appears like it's about… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a… — K. D. Lang Copy Share Image
Apparently when we enter the Earth existence, the third dimensional reality, we exist with a façade as actors playing various roles. For some it… — Dolores Cannon Copy Share Image
I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
Perhaps it’s time, I muse, to close those chapters and remember the enduring lesson of my entrapment: that relationships, not accomplishments, are what’s important… — Aron Ralston Copy Share Image
Even in my town, even in San Francisco, thousands of gay men were arrested usually using entrapment techniques every single year for sexual behavior… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The anger. The terror. The feeling of entrapment. the profound distrust of people.The wistful, plaintive conviction that a window, a thing, was more important… — Flora Rheta Schreiber Copy Share Image
“People's behaviors are messages, not a diagnosis because I can no longer discern the world's version of insanity.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Drug offenses ... may be regarded as the prototypes of non-victim crimes today. The private nature of the sale and use of these drugs… — John Kaplan Copy Share Image
Once you create a self-justifying storyline, your emotional entrapment within it quadruples. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
