Нассим Николас Талеб: Цитаты на английском языке

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“My idea of the modern Stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Источник: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 156

“What I learned on my own I still remember”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Источник: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

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“You may never know what type of person someone is unless they are given opportunities to violate moral or ethical codes.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Источник: Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

“Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

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“Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Источник: Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

“The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today’s employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Источник: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 26

“Remember that you are a Black Swan.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Источник: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

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“Difficulty is what wakes up the genius”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Источник: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

“Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Источник: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 27

“Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Источник: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 4

“The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

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“Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

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“Lucky fools do not bear the slightest suspicion that they may be lucky fools - by definition, they do not know that they belong to such a category.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга Fooled by Randomness

Fooled by Randomness (2001)

“We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга Fooled by Randomness

Fooled by Randomness (2001)

“This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing …”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Источник: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 84

“Love without sacrifice is like theft”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

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