Quotation Collection

Our minds are not quite designed to understand how the world works, but, rather, to get out of trouble rapidly and have progeny. Nicholas Taleb

• reason

The media is paid to get your attention. Nicholas Taleb

• advertising

If an event is important enough, it will find its way to my ears. Nicholas Taleb

• attention

We are not made to view things as independent from each other. When viewing two events A and B, it is hard not to assume that A causes B, B causes A, or both cause each other. Our bias is immediately to establish a causal link. Nicholas Taleb

• science
• reason

It is amazing how much both happiness and efficiency can be increased by the cultivation of an orderly mind, which thinks about a matter adequately at the right time rather than inadequately at all times. When a difficult or worrying decision has to be reached, as soon as all the data are available, give the matter your best thought and make your decision; having made the decision, do not revise it unless some new fact comes to your knowledge. Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile. Bertrand Russell

• focus
• decisiveness