Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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BusinessCalmYouLateToo Late

We must always remember that all medical interventions have risk, and very little can be asserted with 100 percent certainty.

Joel Fuhrman

MedicalRememberRiskCertaintyMust

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

John Polanyi

JourneyScienceEndYouDissent

If you aren't a reader and you have a kid with his face buried in books, it can be a bit threatening. My parents viewed my reading as somewhat effeminate, but also subversive on some level.

Stephen McCauley

ParentsReadingFaceYouKidLevel

The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens.

Tom Vilsack

FutureGovernmentSecurityHealthcare

The most objective measurement we have is that the market actually valued the two split Ethereums more than it valued the one original Ethereum; the market viewed it as a good thing, and I don't see it as any sort of disaster whatsoever.

Roger Ver

GoodMoreTwoDisasterSeeOriginal

I think that's the real reason, sometimes, that people talk about my stories as being scary, because if you compare what goes on in my stories to what goes on in popular movies and popular songs, it's very mild.

Mary Gaitskill

PeopleThinkYouSometimesMovies

You have to pretend to live in those clothes that they lived in, to live within the climate that they had then. You have to imagine with the help, obviously, of all the other technicians that are around - the writer, the director, the other actors.

Derek Jacobi

LiveHelpClothesYouDirector

From the time I was six years old, I wanted to be a BMX Racer and be the best.

Donny Robinson

TimeBestOldYearsSixWanted

You have to focus on the future and know that you can succeed in life, and you have to keep working hard.

Dele Alli

LifeFutureFocusSucceedYouKnow

When I portray Stabler, I have to shave every day and cut my hair every week! And then, I really like to change my looks for films like 'Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle' where I have the pleasure of playing the ugliest man in the world.

Christopher Meloni

ChangeDayManHairWorldWeek

The point to have a child is to introduce them to this planet that is in some ways dying and hopefully, this new generation, these new untainted brains, will be the people to fix some of these things that this generation can't.

Brie Larson

ChildPeopleGenerationNewWill

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

Arthur Erickson

ArchitectureTransparencyNewEurope

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