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„A nehézség az, ami felébreszti a zsenit.”

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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 könyv Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Forrás: 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 könyv 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

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

“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 könyv 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 könyv Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Forrás: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

“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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Forrás: Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

“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 könyv 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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“The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

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

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“Things always become obvious after the fact”

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“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 könyv The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Forrás: 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

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

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

Forrás: 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 könyv The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

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

“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 könyv 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 könyv 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 könyv Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

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

“Love without sacrifice is like theft”

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“Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse.”

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

Forrás: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 30

“Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

“When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.”

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

“The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were in your place. You would be surprised at the difference”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb könyv Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

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“If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.”

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

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“Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.”

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

Forrás: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 60

“The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.”

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“People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up”

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“The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb könyv Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

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“A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see”

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