Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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PeopleWinTryNeverTwoSame

If you've been on top of the food chain in the Armed Forces, that's who you are. You're used to dealing with your life in a particular way.

Joe Morton

LifeFoodYouWayTopUsed

Selling wine is all about sizing people up, and it takes a certain amount of chutzpah. The tableside bottle sell is a very funny thing - you take a look at the guy's blazer, what kind of shoes he's wearing, what kind of broad he's with. Is he trying to be a hero?

Joe Bastianich

FunnyShoesHeroPeopleWineLook

Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to safety, to consensus. It's not individualism.

John Patrick Shanley

GreatMoneySafetyIndividualWhere

The more important a call to action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel about answering it. But to yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.

Steven Pressfield

SoulActionFeelBornEvolution

We like epic stories, we like adventure, we like epic fights, so if you can mix a great story that can also really teach someone about a different experience, you have the potential to really help people.

Tomi Adeyemi

GreatExperienceAdventurePeople

Good home-school educational plans have the kids in groups with other children often and consistently. Because common sense dictates that isolating people is never good and home-schooled children really benefit from being in those type of programs.

Rosalind Wiseman

GoodChildrenPeopleCommon Sense

Unseasonal clothing actually only stands out when it's visibly uncomfortable.

Russell Smith

UncomfortableClothingOutOnly

There is a major problem with reliance on placebos, like most vitamins and antioxidants. Everyone gets upset about Big Science, Big Pharma, but they love Big Placebo.

Michael Specter

LoveScienceProblemUpsetEveryone

No one has ever seen God. So, for me, it is acceptable that if you don't understand a thing, just call it God.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

GodMeYouUnderstandCallSeen

I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating.

Louise Brown

GoodCookingEatingBecauseBooks

I like to talk. That's why I can't karaoke in a private room. Those types of shenanigans are only good in a public space. I got to say, though, with smartphones and instant upload of everything, our generation and definitely the next generation coming up, it's going to be hard to act a fool.

Liza Lapira

GoodFoolSpaceGenerationSayWhy

I'd rather have head stomps and kicks to the head on the ground rather than elbows because I think to kick someone in the head while they're laying on their back is very hard. Elbows are easy. You can be here, and I just cut you and won the fight.

Demetrious Johnson

FightThinkSomeoneEasyYouBack

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