"This is the tragedy of modernity: as with……" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most."
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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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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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I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow…
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More Help Quotes
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As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the…
— Victoria Abril
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Between you and me, I think that may be one of the things that will help with the collaboration, because…
— Robert Asprin
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I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help…
— Rodney Atkins
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the…
— Saint Augustine
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
— Saint Augustine
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
— Saint Augustine
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The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate…
— Teresa of Avila
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I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to…
— Teresa of Avila
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Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious…
— Sai Baba
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