Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Download Open image ““you need a story to replace a story”” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story." "And what if your story doesn't… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Stories are vehicles for conveying who we are, what is important, and what ought to be done..” — David Vermette Copy Share Image
“A story gives people some type of a handhold through their lives. They need to know that what they're doing now has a middle… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Trying to change, avoid, or get rid of that story is often ineffective, time consuming, and focuses our attention on the unhelpful story. Instead,… — Matt Lewis Copy Share Image
“Everyone has a story. It is what defines us. Our stories continue to change as we evolve in-and-out of our own skin, changing and… — Brandon Garic Notch Copy Share Image
“A story is a story, and one may glean from it what one likes. Good sense need not enter into it.” — G. Willow Wilson 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