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"That's a huge gamble." "We're long past the time for careful certainty." — Peter F. Hamilton The Evolutionary...

Never cross a river if it is on average four feet deep — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Antifragile:...

You cannot do anything with knowledge unless you know where it stops, and the costs of using it. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Black Swan:...

Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have - or don't have - in their portfolio. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Antifragile:...

Yes, there what we would consider 'emergent circumstances.' — Lisa Scottoline Accused

It was necessary that I leave Schruns and go to New York to rearrange publishers. I did my business in New York and when I got back to Paris I should have caught the first train from the Gare de l'Est that would take me down to Austria. But the girl I was in love with was in Paris then, and I did not take the first train, or the second or the third. — Ernest Hemingway A Moveable Feast

It was a very bad idea. It was a terrible idea. It was the worst idea he had ever heard. It was irresistible. — Cassandra Clare The Runaway...

There's a quick and easy way to test whether an activity involves skill: ask whether you can lose on purpose. — Michael J. Mauboussin The Success...

I may say, without undue egotism, that when I make up my mind to do something, it is done quickly. — Elizabeth Peters Crocodile on the...

Value the cost of not taking action — Timothy Ferriss Weapons of...

Annie's latest book, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts, focuses on strategies for great decision-making. — Timothy Ferriss Tribe of...

I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a matter of faith. — Emily Giffin Love the One...

You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know. — Ann Rinaldi Numbering All...

Every choice brings wisdom in its wake. If you got to have the wisdom first, it wouldn't be a choice — just policy — Gregory Maguire Out of Oz

Later we can go to dinner. I suppose that might work, she said. She sounded so damn casual, he thought. As if the decision she had just made weren't staggering in its implications. As if it weren't going to alter destinies and change the fate of nations. — Jayne Ann Krentz Summer in...

The trap many people fall into is to allocate their time to whoever screams loudest, and their talent to whatever offers them the fastest reward. That's a dangerous way to build a strategy. — Clayton M. Christensen How Will You...

A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction. — Annie Proulx The Shipping...

When a man showed up you didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at yours, because it's painful to see somebody so clear that it's like...

You need to be so careful when there is one simple diagnosis that instantly pops into your mind that beautifully explains everything all at once. That's when you need to stop and check your thinking...Beware of the delirious guy in the emergency unit with the long history of alcoholism, because you will say, 'He's just drunk,' and you'll miss the subdural hematoma. — Michael Lewis The Undoing...

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