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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: lebanese
Birth: 1960

Topics

Day Reading Think Short Long Crisis

But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice.

Joel Hodgson

Creative People Cool Think You Nice

Rather than make excuses for their failures, resilient people learn from each mistake. They identify skills, ideas, and life lessons that can be gained from each failed opportunity.

Amy Morin

Life Opportunity People Ideas Learn

You have to know how to keep things in perspective.

Tony Parker

Perspective You Know Things Keep

I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on the gate, stare at the vegetable beds and ponder.

Tom Hodgkinson

Rain Day Gardening I Am Wind Gate

I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a muscle - the more you use it, the stronger it gets.

Rodman Philbrick

Change Imagination Believe Stronger

I've made movies that are real boy movies - but I've had so much fun over the years working with women and getting good performances with women and with strong female characters.

Michael Lehmann

Good Women Fun Strong Movies Boy

When you look at yourself in a mirror, do you like what you see, or do you judge your body and use the word to tell yourself lies? If you believe that you are not attractive enough, then you believe a lie, and you are using the word against yourself, against the truth.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Truth Mirror Lie Yourself Believe

Ribosomes contain RNA, messenger RNA provides the information, transfer RNAs brings the amino acids; so the protein-making machinery is an RNA machinery, completely.

Christian de Duve

Information Messenger Transfer Brings

Our career path has tended to be the most perverse and contrary approach to the entertainment industry imaginable, while at the same time doing the kinds of things that you have to do, the videos, the photos and all that sort of stuff.

Peter Garrett

Path Time Doing You Career Same

There's certainly a loss of connection with folks on the ground who I care for and love and I want to spend time with.

Scott Kelly

Love Time Care Loss Connection Want

I'm undefeated in Scrabble. I can figure out an opponent's strategy and mold mine to offset theirs. I play a couple times a week, and I'll often play a game on my bed by myself against myself, which I realize sounds completely mad.

Ryan Kwanten

Myself Game Strategy Week Mad Play

Among the things I know is that Trump voters were played for suckers.

Richard Cohen

Know Things Trump Played Voters