"Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we……" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies."
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219 Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb has 219 quotes on this site.
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I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's…
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Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a…
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Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in…
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...maximize the serendipity around you.
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Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who…
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Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
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He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
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Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.
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Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d…
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This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the…
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Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades).…
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But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the…
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More Cherries Quotes
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My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole…
— Mario Batali
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for…
— Joseph Addison
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The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all…
— Halle Berry
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I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
— H. Rap Brown
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Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out…
— Nicolas Chamfort
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A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top.
— Jennifer Aniston
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Just as cherry, plum, peach and damson blossoms all possess their own unique qualities, each person is unique. We cannot…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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Despite my inability to qualify to qualify in South Africa, I did really appreciate the support I got from the…
— Benjamin Boukpeti
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Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long…
— Yoshida Kenko
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On a moonlit night, after a snowfall, or under cherry blossoms, it adds to our pleasure if, while chatting at…
— Yoshida Kenko
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His four year contract renewal: As always, I remain hopeful that Don Cherry won't be offered the same length contract.
— Unknown Author
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I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they…
— Robert Southey
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