Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all.

I think people think I'm harder and more arrogant and cocky than I am - because I know how to put on a front, but it's nothing like who I am inside.

It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

One thing that I am proud of: I am really capable of laughing at myself.

It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

Although men are accused of not knowing their weakness, yet perhaps as few know their strength.

I think women are amazing for being able to show what they feel. I admire women who do. I think it's a mistake when women cover their emotions to look tough. I say let's own who we are and use it as a strength.

To me, a strong sense of self isn't believing in a lot.

There's the Draymond Green you see out on the floor. But that's not me. I mean, it is, but there's more. People see the fiery guy, the competitive guy, the trash talk and everything. But they don't see the love and compassion. They don't see the person. They don't see the real me, who values his friends and puts people first.

The Funkasaurus character was great and it taught me about being humble, about the character, about not being concerned with what people think you should be.

Being vulnerable is not a sign of weakness. It's a sign of strength.

When you know you're vulnerable, and you know... your strength and your weakness, you can see life with better perspective.

Sometimes, my weakness is where the strength really is, and it leads me to depend in the areas where I really should.

People who are comfortable in their own skin I admire, but you don't know what's really going on. If you meet someone who says they nail being a human, they are as far away from nailing it as a human as you can possibly imagine.

I'm comfortable with myself now, and I understand how goofy I am, how stupid I can be, how emotional I can be, or how focused I can be.

I don't think I am fearless. I am just me.

My father had a way of exposing himself, of showing weakness and still retaining his dignity.

True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses.

It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.

I'm tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he's not a predator. He doesn't have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain't. I'm tough.

There was a time when I just felt like a superwoman. I was like, 'I got Jesus! I ain't afraid!' But, the truth is, I want to do things right, and sometimes I am afraid that I'm not good enough or that I'm not going to handle something right.

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.