Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.

Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has.

Change is the only constant in this unsteady world.

Football is a changeable game. From one day to another, everything could change.

I like change. I've never really had much consistency in my life, you know, from everyday work to my living situation to whether or not I'm going to be in L.A. The one constant thing in my life is my friends and family, which is all I need.

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.

I have had a pretty hardcore crash course on living out of a suitcase. Some people take consistency in their lives for granted. When you have little to none, you discover it's kind of a nice thing.

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.

Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

It's not very fashionable, but I love life, and I believe that things disappear and reappear and nothing ever solidifies, no matter how middle-class, housebroken, staid, and solitary someone's life seems to be. That, I think, is what I'm writing about.

In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing.

There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind.

Anything can change in show business; you know how it goes, everything changes from one day to the other.

History is a fickle lady.

This plan is subject to change without notice as all plans are.

The clammy hand of consistency has never rested for long upon my shoulder.

Nothing is guaranteed.

You can't get too comfortable and relax, because your world can flip overnight.

The world is unpredictable.

It's amazing how quickly things can change.

I don't look further than next year because in our world, anything can happen.