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“The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.”

Gains Opposites Disorder Fragile Robust

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.”

People Asks Strong Gains Opposites Disorder Fragile Resilient Robust Adaptable

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.”

Mind Wells Subjects Style Opposites Rewards Obsession Disorder Right Time Right Place Pretense

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.”

“But for me there is neither Monday nor Sunday: there are days which pass in disorder, and then, sudden lightning like this one. Nothing has changed and yet everything is different. I can't describe it, it's like the Nausea and yet it's just the opposite: at last an adventure happens to me and when I question myself I see that it happens that I am myself and that I am here; I am the one who splits in the night, I am as happy as the hero of a novel.”

I Can Different Happens Lasts Night Novel Changed Adventure Hero Opposites Sunday Disorder Splits Lightning Monday Here I Am Nausea

Book:Nausea

Source: Nausea

“People who think that grammar is just a collection of rules and restrictions are wrong. If you get to like it, grammar reveals the hidden meaning of history, hides disorder and abandonment, links things and brings opposites together. Grammar is a wonderful way of organising the world how you'd like it to be.”

People Ifs Thinking World Way Together Wonderful Opposites Collections Links Disorder Grammar Abandonment Restriction Hidden Meaning

Author:Delphine de Vigan

“Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the most opposite of the plan of a wise superintendent, impress mankind with the strongest sentiments of religion.”

Religion Wise Plans Mankind Opposites Miracle Sentiments Strongest Disorder Impress Prodigies Superintendents

Book:The Natural History of Religion

Source: The Natural History of Religion

“I kinda have the opposite of ADD. I have a hyper-focused disorder, where if there's a given task in front of me I really concentrate on that.”

Ifs Given Fronts Tasks Opposites Add Focused Disorder Hyper

Author:Jared Leto

“If there is one thing I will never have, it is an eating disorder. I won't have girls - even if it is just one or two who care - thinking that. Because it is a serious sickness, not something to plaster on the cover of a magazine. And I am the opposite. I want girls to love themselves. I want them to feel good about who they areThe thing is, I'm lucky because I was loved. But I have seen so many young women who can't feel good about themselves because they just don't have that love.”

Ifs Thinking Want Feels Two Care Young Girl One Thing Serious Lucky Eating Opposites Feel Good Magazines Just One Sickness Disorder Young Women Who Cares Eating Disorder Plasters I Want A Girl

Author:Kate Hudson