Bad thing Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Download Open image “This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bad thing Bad things Illusion Life Randomness Risk
“Here’s what we all know, deep down, even though we might wish it weren’t true: Change is going to happen, whether we like it… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
“Here’s what we all know, deep down, even though we might wish it weren’t true: Change is going to happen, whether we like it… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
I think that’s what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by.… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
We pride ourselves on being the only species that understands the concept of risk, yet we have a confounding habit of worrying about mere… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
“Conventional wisdom nor scientific, mathematical prove of randomness in life could do nothing to deter human's curiosity for the unknown, however small the chance… — Vann Chow Copy Share Image
Our lives are not totally random. We make commitments, we cause things to happen. — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
Randomness has an incredibly powerful place in our culture. If you think about it, you can see it driving the algorithms that run our… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
“We humans are the victims of an asymmetry in the perception of random events. We attribute our successes to our skills, and our failures… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about. — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design. — Richard Dawkins 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
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
I think the people I talk about are generally so stupid that they don't even know I'm saying bad things about them. I've run… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things: Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you're around… — Nick Saban Copy Share Image
I'm not going to pretend that bad things don't happen. I just hope my daughter has enough understanding that when they do, just give… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
I've heard some pretty bad things in my life. I'm just one of those people I've gotten to a point where I don't want… — Sophia Bush Copy Share Image
Like everybody, you get nights where you feel completely depressed. You start thinking about all the bad things and think about the glass half… — Lights Copy Share Image
Be Thankful for all things in life. Even for the bad things. SOMETIMES the worst situations in life turn out to be the best… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my business, you should be very strong in mind. You have to be sure about yourself and about your work and your career,… — Irina Shayk Copy Share Image
“I don’t know why I latched onto the idea of being friends, but it sits right with my gut. I want Hartley in my… — Erin Watt Copy Share Image
I'm just grateful to people who are willing to admit how bad things feel for them. — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
I love it when television is shot in a cinematic way and I think to aspire to that is no bad thing. — Matthew Rhys Copy Share Image