"I hated school because I liked to daydream……" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that."
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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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More Daydream Quotes
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I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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But we have to understand why we do what we do, not just do what we do. Vision without action…
— Unknown Author
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The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a…
— Daniel Goleman
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Waiting in line is a great opportunity to meet people, daydream, or play.
— Patch Adams
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
— Larry Niven
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The real thing, when done right , is always better than a daydream
— Amy Harmon
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I was unique in that I was a kind of black that white people could accept. I was their daydream.…
— Lena Horne
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I daydream all the time, and I like that quality.
— Shirley Henderson
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If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have…
— Robert Duvall
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I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
— Gaston Bachelard
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