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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3e30849 | You are young, and rich, and have friends, and at such an age I know it is hard to die! | wealth youth | James Fenimore Cooper | |
| 5f60187 | The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearance of haste | hurry | James Fenimore Cooper | |
| a8db40a | It hit me right there and then that these antifragile hormetic responses were just a form of redundancy, and all the ideas of Mother Nature converged in my mind. It is all about redundancy. Nature likes to overinsure itself. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| cace46c | Look into your own existence. Count the significant events, the technological changes, and the inventions that have taken place in our environment since you were born and compare them to what was expected before their advent. How many of them came on a schedule? Look into your own personal life, to your choice of profession, say, or meeting your mate, your exile from your country of origin, the betrayals you faced, your sudden enrichment or.. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| d2e6ca0 | So you become numb to insults, particularly if you teach yourself to imagine that the person uttering them is a variant of a noisy ape with little personal control. Just keep your composure, smile, focus on analyzing the speaker not the message, and you'll win the argument. An ad hominem attack against an intellectual, not against an idea, is highly flattering. It indicates that the person does not have anything intelligent to say about you.. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 753ce32 | Too much success is the enemy, too much failure is demoralizing. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 3474f42 | People do not realize that the media is paid to get your attention. For a journalist, silence rarely surpasses any word. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 5ed4c8f | I will set aside the point that I see no special heroism in accumulating money, particularly if, in addition, the person is foolish enough to not even try to derive any tangible benefit from the wealth (aside from the pleasure of regularly counting the beans). | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 1e6bc2b | Beware of the person who gives advice, telling you that a certain action on your part is "good for you" while it is also good for him, while the harm to you doesn't directly affect him." | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 6e9376f | Hunger (or episodic energy deficit) strengthens the body and the immune system and helps rejuvenate brain cells, weaken cancer cells , and prevent diabetes. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 8683ffc | Recall that the fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 21fa681 | There is asymmetry. Those who die do so very early in the game, while those who live go on living very long. Whenever there is asymmetry in outcomes, the average survival has nothing to do with the median survival. | probability success-failure-work | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | |
| 1a135dc | The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology. | modernity technology | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | |
| ded4a41 | In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 157953b | A mathematician starts with a problem and creates a solution; a consultant starts by offering a "solution" and creates a problem." | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 8b6fc20 | We ingest probiotics because we don't eat enough "dirt" anymore." -- | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| a195a02 | The chief ethical rule is the following: Thou shalt not have antifragility at the expense of the fragility of others. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 076ab54 | If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 09283f3 | The problem with information is not that it is diverting and generally useless, but that it is toxic. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| b0f65ad | For I have a single definition of success: you look in the mirror every evening, and wonder if you disappoint the person you were at 18, right before the age when people start getting corrupted by life. Let him or her be the only judge; not your reputation, not your wealth, not your standing in the community, not the decorations on your lapel. If you do not feel ashamed, you are successful. All other definitions of success are modern constr.. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| a00c1f2 | The only definition of rationality that I've found that is practically, empirically, and mathematically rigorous is the following: what is rational is that which allows for survival. Unlike modern theories by psychosophasters, it maps to the classical way of thinking. Anything that hinders one's survival at an individual, collective, tribal, or general level is, to me, irrational. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 2d7ae50 | How much you truly "believe" in something can be manifested only through what you are willing to risk for it." | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 9b63f4c | Rational flaneur (or just flaneur): Someone who, unlike a tourist, makes a decision opportunistically at every step to revise his schedule (or his destination) so he can imbibe things based on new information obtained. In research and entrepreneurship, being a flaneur is called "looking for optionality." | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 3b3381f | When you don't know what to do with yourself, do something for someone else. | Lilian Jackson Braun | ||
| ede491d | I'm beginning to be skeptical of my own skepticism. | Lilian Jackson Braun | ||
| 9ceb5f4 | You hate me now. I knew you'd be upset at the choice being taken away but I couldn't see you die. | Lynsay Sands | ||
| 3c413db | He had never fainted in his life, and while he knew it was this whole life-mate, mind-blowing-sex business, it was still damned demoralizing to be fainting like a breathless virgin at the end of every encounter. | Lynsay Sands | ||
| b216b5b | Harper: "What are FM shoes?" Drina: "Ahh. These are FM shoes." Harper: "And the FM stands for?" Drina: "Fuck Me." | Lynsay Sands | ||
| 701ee34 | Everything's all fun and games until someone gets an ax in the chest. | Lynsay Sands | ||
| 17a5287 | Winkie? Flesh flute? Tallywhacker? Baby maker? Quiver bone? Joystick? Fun stick? Lap rocket? Love muscle? Wedding tackle? One-eyed wonder weasel? Helmet head? Wang? Trouser snake? Giggle stick? Schlong? Mushroom head? Love rod? Pecker? Thundersw--" "Enough!" Lucian barked, and when Bricker paused and glanced to him questioningly, he said, "I do not know what alarms me more, that you have so many names for cock or what it means in regard to .. | lucian | Lynsay Sands | |
| af9554e | He smiled all the way to physics class. He almost laughed out loud when he passed through the door and saw her shadowy, hunched-over form casting around for a seat in the back. She was in his class; this was excellent. Maybe she'd call him a name if he struck up another conversation. Even curse him out. That might fun. God, he'd probably earn himself a restraining order if he tried to sit next to her. He was so tired of saccharine smiles an.. | cloying hunched maladjusted-people saccharine school wheelchair | Francine Pascal | |
| be04b2a | She needed to get out of there. Her brains, thankfully, were still safely in her skull, but her emotions were splattered on the pavement. | emotions pavement splattered | Francine Pascal | |
| 077bde7 | Egyptians undergo an odd personality change behind the wheel of a car. In every other setting, aggression and impatience are frowned upon. The unofficial Egyptian anthem "Bokra, Insha'allah, Malesh" (Tomorrow, God Willing, Never Mind) isn't just an excuse for laziness. In a society requiring millennial patience, it is also a social code dictating that no one make too much of a fuss about things. But put an Egyptian in the driver's seat and .. | egypt insha-allah middle-east taxis | Tony Horwitz | |
| 76fae72 | They wanted their girls to be safe. To do what they had to do to conform, to defer, to survive, to grow up. They wanted their girls never to grow up. Never to stop burning. They wanted their girls to say fuck it, to see through the lies, to know their own strength. They wanted their girls to believe the things could be different this time, and they wanted it to be true. They wondered, sometimes, if they'd made a mistake. If it was dangerous.. | feminine-power feminism gender-deivide girl power sexuality woman women | Robin Wasserman | |
| bb2b971 | In dreams you can become everything you're not. You can reverse the most fundamental truths of your life. You can taste death, the ultimate opposite. | lia-kahn shattered | Robin Wasserman | |
| 1d12df8 | A fundamentalist is someone who wants to substitute what he believes for what you believe," Max said. "And someone who thinks he knows the will of God better than anyone else." | religion | Robin Wasserman | |
| d978a03 | The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played. | jacqueline-carey kushiel-s-chosen music | Jacqueline Carey | |
| 47917e1 | How do you want to die, Admiral? We are D'Angeline. At the hand of numbers, or dreams? | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 55b7ba8 | The gods use their chosen hard, but reveal little to them. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 63564d3 | Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| e9b314e | those of us who wish to draw near to God should not be surprised when our vision goes cloudy, for this is a sign that we are approaching the opaque splendor of God. If we decide to keep going beyond the point where our eyes or minds are any help to us, we may finally arrive at the pinnacle of the spiritual journey toward God, which exists in complete and dazzling darkness. | Barbara Brown Taylor | ||
| 4c364c2 | If seeing her an hour before her last Weak cough into all blackness I could yet Be held by chalk-white walls - | belsen death disease guilt wwii | Mervyn Peake | |
| 0e5dc5c | The sun sank with a sob and darkness waded in from all horizons so that the sky contracted and there was no more light left in the world, when, at this very moment of annihilation, the moon, as though she had been waiting for her cue, sailed up the night. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| a624e7f | As Pat Riley, the basketball coach, said, "Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse." | Brian Tracy |