Nassim Taleb Antifragile Quotes

#1. Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.

Giraldus Cambrensis

#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. Children are easily influenced, and I always want to do things I can be proud to show my kids someday.

Faith Hill

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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#7. It is a remarkable fact, a scientific fact, that the healthiest children come from the happiest mothers.

L. Ron Hubbard

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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#9. Gone

She had only meant
to go to sleep
but the sea;
it rocked her
and in its waves
she drowned
in a sadness
so sweet
it engulfed her
(4:22AM)

Mae Krell

#10. 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

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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#13. 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

#14. There were time when I was into method acting that I did have moments of residual character emotions, because the method bases your emotional responses as a character on emotional experiences from your real life.

Corin Nemec

#15. 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

#16. Most other documents leaked to WikiLeaks do not carry the same explosive potential as candid cables written by American diplomats.

Evgeny Morozov

#17. Give your dog something to do before you share food, water, toys or affection. This way the dog earns his treat. For example, have him or her perform the "sit" or "down" command.

Cesar Millan

#18. 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

#19. Design truly is a contact sport. It demands that we bring all of our senses to the task, and that we apply the very best of our thinking, our feeling and our doing to the challenge that we have at hand.

Tom Wujec

#20. 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

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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#22. Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.

Emile M. Cioran

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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#24. 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

#25. The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#26. Believe in things impossible, love the magic of a place, mystery in a person, passion in a relationship and seek adventures in life.. Live the life don't go through it..

Anubhav Mishra