"Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense,……" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad -- at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity."
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219 Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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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Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.
— Ludwig von Mises
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Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is…
— Bill Moyers
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Change isn't always bad; we should always be learning and improving. But the change I was seeing involved principles, not…
— Tony Dungy
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An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.
— Alain de Lille
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise…
— Lord Acton
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Self knowledge is always bad news.
— John Barth
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Realism in so far as it means Reality to life is always bad art.
— Sherwood Anderson
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The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the…
— Denis Diderot
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only…
— Lord Acton
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Darkness is not always bad, just as light is not always good.
— P. C. Cast
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Whenever I investigate a smell, I find that the answer is always bad. It's never: 'What is that? *sniff* muffins!'
— Demetri Martin
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And is an ending always bad? it asked. Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?"There is no need to…
— Brandon Sanderson
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