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

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Tags: Aphorisms and apothegms, Human behavior, Management, Psychology, Reference, maxims, General, etc, Human behavior - Quotations, Self-Help, Quotations, Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781400069972
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2010-11-30T01:16:40.356185+00:00

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Most people need to wait for another person to say “this is beautiful art” to say “this is beautiful art”; some need to wait for two or more.

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Almutanabbi boasted that he was the greatest of all Arab poets, but he said so in the greatest of all Arab poems.

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Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

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In classical renderings of prominent figures, males are lean and females are plump; in modern photographs, the opposite.

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Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators.

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