Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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ThinkNeverVolatilityStability

What's fantastic is that there's a real growing appreciation for performance-capture technology as a tool for acting.

Andy Serkis

TechnologyAppreciationActingReal

Vision looks inward and becomes duty.

Stephen Samuel Wise

VisionLooksDutyInwardBecomes

'Grimm,' I think, is a unique show in a lot of ways. There is certainly nothing on TV that looks like 'Grimm'.

Silas Weir Mitchell

ThinkUniqueLooksNothingShowTV

Tap dancing and basketball started at the same time, and when I was eight, I just kind of made the decision that entertainment was really where I wanted to be.

Trevor Jackson

TimeDecisionBasketballKindSame

I really admire Airbnb as a pioneer of the sharing economy and for building community. They've found an elegant way to help hosts make more money and for guests to have authentic experiences. It brings those people together in a unique way.

Logan Green

CommunityMoneyTogetherPeopleHelp

People want to rap about having a good time.

Juicy J

GoodTimePeopleHaving A Good Time

For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning.

Josiah Royce

LifeMeaningKnowNowIndividual

Some of the most hard-working, generous people I've met in my whole life didn't really want to vote for him but did. My calling is to step onto the other side and humanise and portray the struggles of many Trump voters.

Chloe Zhao

LifeStepPeopleWantVoteHim

We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead.

Philip Gibbs

PeaceLieWorldDieRewardEarth

My grandma used to call my mother 'Tuppence' as a term of affection, but she was worried when my parents actually put it on my birth certificate. She thought I might get bullied.

Tuppence Middleton

MotherParentsThoughtAffectionShe

I'm in love with cities. I find them amazing, the quiet co-ordination of thousands of people, going about what we're trying to do, and that organism of the city nurturing human aspiration, and the actual city fabric itself being a special thing rather than just infrastructure.

Thomas Heatherwick

LovePeopleCityAmazingTrying

My hopes are laid up within my own bosom, for he is not alone with whom the Lord is; when he falls, he shall not be dashed to pieces, for the Lord sustains him in his hand.

Thomas Becket

AloneHandMy OwnHimWithinOwn

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