Antifragile Quotes

#1. For the antifragile, shocks bring more benefits (equivalently, less harm) as their intensity increases (up to a point).

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. Is the most antifragile place on the planet; it benefits from shocks that take place in the rest of the world.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#3. Recall that the fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#4. Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I'd rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#5. The process of discovery (or innovation, or technological progress) itself depends on antifragile tinkering, aggressive risk bearing rather than formal education.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#6. Seneca and stoicism as a back door to explain why everything antifragile has to have more upside than downside

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#7. With few exceptions, those who dress outrageously are robust or even antifragile in reputation; those clean-shaven types who dress in suits and ties are fragile to information about them.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#8. Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#9. 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

#10. Curiosity is antifragile, like an addiction, and is magnified by attempts to satisfy it - books have a secret mission and ability to multiply, as everyone who has wall-to-wall bookshelves knows well.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#11. It is often the mistakes of others that benefit the rest of us and, sadly, not them ... For the antifragile, harm from errors should be less than the benefits.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#12. And we can almost always detect antifragility (and fragility) using a simple test of asymmetry: anything that has more upside than downside from random events (or certain shocks) is antifragile; the reverse is fragile.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#13. Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#14. Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#15. Don't aim to be perfect! Aim to be antifragile

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#16. Writing a book is the most difficult, anxiety-prone aspect of my life because the words that I put on paper are very serious to me.

Frank Luntz

#17. I want to take a few years out, maybe make a couple of more films or whatever.

Tom Felton

#18. Kids are kids and not little adults. They're watching and listening to you all the time. They're figuring out the game plan but still don't know all the rules. Talk straight to them and they'll respect you for it.

Carew Papritz

#19. Suffering becomes beautiful whenever a person bears great calamities with cheerfulness.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#20. I have a body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.

Spike Milligan

#21. I don't need David Haye and his antics to earn money.

Tyson Fury

#22. Vampire have their own understanding what freedom is because they just live much longer and they feel they are a superior race and they have their own understanding and their understanding represents the understanding of some people, that - who has the power of course has to rule the world.

Timur Bekmambetov

#23. Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I knew there was milk and toast and honey and a bowl of oranges, too.

Joni Mitchell

#24. If you believe in yourself, it doesn't matter what others might be telling you is impossible. It's all up to you!

Ne-Yo

#25. Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved,it would be much simpler, but much less magical

Trey Parker