Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
William Bruce Cameron
Quotes
Taleb on writing only inspired prose
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a very smart man, probably a brilliant man. He is the author of The Black Swan and Antifragile: Things that
Unknown
If you are patient in one moment of anger you will save a thousand days of sorrow.
Elizabeth Gilbert
I was taught how to work. I think that’s everything. Creativity and imagination alone are not going to get you there.
So hard being son of billionaire?
Antoine Arnault spent his youth enjoying the spoils of being the LVMH titan’s eldest son. But by successfully betting on high-end men’s wear as
Matthew Day Jackson
‘What’s under assault right now?’ he asks. ‘How a writer’s intellectual property is distributed, and how their work finds itself in the world, is
Height over time
Average height of men: 1856-60 – 5, 5.0 1896-1900 – 5, 6.5 1936-1940- 5, 7.5 1976-1980 – 5, 10.0
Sonny Rollins
If I don’t get to practice, work on my embouchure and scales, then I can’t play correctly, and if I can’t play correctly, I
Paul Harding
Be comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your soul means that you are still alive, still
‘The Book of Schmaltz’, by Michael Ruhlman
Fat doesn’t make us fat—eating too much makes us fat. Eating all that processed crap, and cleaning our overfilled plates at chain restaurants, makes