"What I learned on my own I still remember"

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#Remember Quotes #Stills Quotes

“We know that hockey is where we live, where we can best meet and overcome pain and wrong and death. Life is just a place where we spend time between games.”

Source : "Walking Together Forever: The Broad Street Bullies, Then and Now". Book by Jim Jackson, January 5, 2005.
“You're really creative when you're in an environment that you don't know how to handle. So collaborating was like that for me. I think that was one of the reasons why I knew I was gonna get a challenging reaction.”
“I've always known that the best part of writing occurs before you've picked up a pen. When a story exists only in your mind, its potential is infinite; it's only when you start pinning words to paper that it becomes less than perfect. You have to make your choices, set your limits. Start whittling away at the cosmos, and don't stop until you've narrowed it down to a single, ordinary speck of dirt. And in the end, what you've made is not nearly as glorious as what you've thrown away.”
“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.”
“There is scarcely a man who is not conscious of the benefits which his own mind has received from the performance of single acts of benevolence. How strange that so few of us try a course of the same medicine!”

Source : John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.3
“The Anthropocene essentially would be the time of human influence on the planet. That's controversial though, because geology is a retrospective discipline. The rocks of the Anthropocene haven't been deposited yet, really.”

Source : "What's The Anthropocene?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 30, 2016.
“A good rule in organizational analysis is that no meeting of the minds is really reached until we talk of specific actions or decisions. We can talk of who is responsible for budgets, or inventory, or quality, but little is settled. It is only when we get down to the action words-measure, compute, prepare, check, endorse, recommend, approve-that we can make clear who is to do what.”

Source : Joseph M. Juran (1964). “Managerial breakthrough: a new concept of the manager's job”, McGraw-Hill Companies
“In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.”

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