"Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment." — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment."
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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 Entrapment Quotes
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one of 9 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Drug offenses ... may be regarded as the prototypes of non-victim crimes today. The private nature of the sale and…
— John Kaplan
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When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So…
— K D Lang
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Apparently when we enter the Earth existence, the third dimensional reality, we exist with a façade as actors playing various…
— Dolores Cannon
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free…
— Ma Jian
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Perhaps it’s time, I muse, to close those chapters and remember the enduring lesson of my entrapment: that relationships, not…
— Aron Ralston
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The anger. The terror. The feeling of entrapment. the profound distrust of people.The wistful, plaintive conviction that a window, a…
— Flora Rheta Schreiber
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Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Once you create a self-justifying storyline, your emotional entrapment within it quadruples.
— Pema Chodron
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