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  • A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.

    Swans   Bird   Black  
    'Satires' no. 6, l. 165
  • Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.

    Lakes   Swans   Black  
  • Last year when "Black Swan," "True Grit" and "King's Speech" all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make daring movies. You know, and not do the same old you-know-what.

    "Harvey Weinstein On Hollywood's Heated Oscar Race". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 2, 2011.
  • Everything will be better in the morning. It always is.

  • People who think they know what is going to happen next are fools. Surprises - or what the brilliant author Nassim Taleb calls 'Black Swans' - are inevitable. Some are likely to be desperately unpleasant too

  • Ideas come and go, stories stay.

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.31, Random House
  • Perfection is not just about control, it is also about letting go.

  • Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.

    Running   Ideas   Missing  
    "This column will change your life: do you own gadgets - or do they own you?" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2013.
  • So the world is much more correlated than we give credit to. And so we see more of what Nassim Taleb calls "black swan events" - rare events happen more often than they should because the world is more correlated.

    Source: bigthink.com
  • With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.

    Swans   Scary   Black  
  • I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or "incentives" for skill.

    Errors   Skills   People  
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.25, Random House
  • No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.

    Swans   White   Black  
  • Slashing its way to the finish line, Black Swan is the first ballet movie for highbrow horror fans for whom ballet itself signifies little to nothing. Those of us who know and love ballet can only look on it with a different kind of horror.

    Swans   Ballet   Black  
    "Swan Down: James Wolcott's Review". "Opera Chic" blog, December 06, 2010.
  • In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term.

    Swans   Long   Black  
  • A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan.

    Swans   Bird   Black  
  • Remember that you are a Black Swan.

    Swans   Black   Remember  
  • The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare.

  • The only person standing in your way is you.

  • I have this really morbid, awesome love for the movie Black Swan.

    Swans   Black   Morbid  
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