“It changes you a little bit every time you either break someone’s heart or get your heart broken.”
—Amanda Seyfried.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Feel a little bit lost
“We need to feel a little bit lost somewhere, physically or intellectually, at least once a day.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
Ernest Newman: Inspired
“The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.”
—Ernest Newman.
Simon Sinek: People are still people
“We can learn about our future from our past because, regardless of technology or the speed of innovation, people are still people.”
—Simon Sinek.
Ed Harris: Reaction based on fear
“There’s always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you’re criticizing a decision to go to war, then you’re saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case.”
—Ed Harris.
Claude Levi-Strauss: Naive or dishonest
“One must be very naive or dishonest to imagine that men choose their beliefs independently of their situation.”
—Claude Levi-Strauss, anthropologist.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Rare events
“The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare.”
—Nassim Nicholas Taleb.