"Learn to fail with pride - and do……" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part."
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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 Cleanly Quotes
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The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern…
— John le Carre
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I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship.…
— Jennifer Aniston
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Waiting is worse than knowing. Grief rends the heart cleanly, that it may begin to heal; waiting shreds the spirit.
— Morgan Llywelyn
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I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
— Catullus
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly,…
— Yann Martel
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F8 And Be There! For years, this was the cry of the photojournalist. It meant that 90% of a great…
— Dewitt Jones
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Please, compete in the spirit of fair play, mutual understanding and respect. And above all, please compete cleanly by refusing…
— Jacques Rogge
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I was after a set of pictures, so that when people looked at them they would say, ‘This is war’-that…
— W. Eugene Smith
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The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness…
— Ernest Gaines
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I was the first woman to paint cleanly, and that was the basis of my success. From a hundred pictures,…
— Tamara de Lempicka
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Writing is like praying, because you stop all other activities, descend into silence, and listen patiently to the depths of…
— Helen Prejean
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You need flawless balance on the recovery. You need white hot focus and the concentration to row square blades cleanly…
— Brad Alan Lewis
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