"We should reward people, not ridicule them, for……" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible."

— 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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More Impossible Quotes

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But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be… — Aristotle
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. — Matthew Arnold
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi
All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve -… — David Attenborough
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish. — Marcus Aurelius
I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible. — Teresa of Avila
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else… — Richard Bach
Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love… — Kevin Bacon
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that… — Douglas Adams
It is impossible to love and to be wise. — Francis Bacon
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins. — Arthur Baer

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