Compromiso In English Quotes & Sayings

Proud, then, clear-eyed and laughing, go to greet Death as a friend! — Rupert Brooke

Aside from the movies, examples of positive-Black Swan businesses are: some segments of publishing, scientific research, and venture capital. In these businesses, you lose small to make big. You have little to lose per book and, for completely unexpected reasons, any given book might take off. The downside is small and easily controlled. The problem with publishers, of course, is that they regularly pay up for books, thus making their upside rather limited and their downside monstrous. (If you pay $10 million for a book, your Black Swan is it not being a bestseller.) Likewise, while technology can carry a great payoff, paying for the hyped-up story, as people did with the dot-com bubble, can make any upside limited and any downside huge. It is the venture capitalist who invested in a speculative company and sold his stake to unimaginative investors who is the beneficiary of the Black Swan, not the "me, too" investors. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I don't even know if people even care what a 27-year-old Jewish kid thinks about politics. — Joe Mande

It's funny how you can hear only a few cords from a song and it'll transport you back in time to a particular person or place. — Janelle Smith Toussant

Never follow a dog act. You know you're on the skids when you play yourself in the movie version of your life. — Erica Jong

Devotion means constantly thinking about God or your teacher. It is like always thinking about your beloved. — Choa Kok Sui