"Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you……" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood."

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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219 Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb has 219 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's…
Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a…
Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in…
...maximize the serendipity around you.
Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who…
Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.
Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d…
This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the…
Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades).…
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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What is an adult? A child blown up by age. — Simone de Beauvoir
Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than… — Margaret Cho
If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Creating a world that is truly fit for children does not imply simply the absence of war... It means having… — Carol Bellamy
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and… — Sydney J. Harris
The tough thing about adulthood is it starts before you even know it starts. — Robert Redford
Calculated is the truth of adulthood, whereas honest is the truth of a child. — Wes Fesler
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career… — Charles Lindbergh
The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched… — Tom Brokaw
Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste ears, trying to get someone… — Lois McMaster Bujold
A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl
People whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood, who were protected, respected, and treated with honesty by their parents,… — Alice Miller

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