Quotes About Event

One vicious attribute is that the longer these animals can go without encountering the rare event, the more vulnerable they will be to it.

The occurrence of a highly improbable event is the equivalent of the nonoccurrence of a highly probable one

Remember that for an event to be a Black Swan, it does not just have to be rare, or just wild; it has to be unexpected, has to lie outside our tunnel of possibilities. You must be a sucker for it.

Black Swan is a sucker's problem. In other words, it occurs relative to your expectation

Memory is more of a self-serving dynamic revision machine: you remember the last time you remembered the event and, without realizing it, change the story at every subsequent remembrance.

the longer these animals can go without encountering the rare event, the more vulnerable they will be to it.

It qualified as a Black Swan, but I did not know the expression then.

try to benefit from rare events, events that do not tend to repeat themselves frequently, but, accordingly, present a large payoff when they occur.

When he blew up, close to a couple of decades of performance were overshadowed by a single event that only lasted a few minutes.

The payoff, what happens to you (the benefits or harm from it), is always the most important thing, not the event itself.

Well, boys," she said, "here it is. The worst is happening at last.

We are parts of one universe, true enough. We stand within an almost infinite network of relationships. Yet each of us is a single point of consciousness, a unique event, a private, unrepeatable world. This is the essence of our aloneness.

But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghostlike, the spot where some great and marked event has given the color to their lifetime; and still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.

I said, but now, that there could be no good event for him, or thee, or me, who are here wandering together in this gloomy maze of evil, and stumbling, at every step, over the guilt wherewith we have strewn our path.

But it were folly to lay any stress on stories of this kind, which are sure to spring up around such an event as that now related, and which, as in the present case, sometimes prolong themselves for ages afterwards, like the toadstools that indicate where the fallen and buried trunk of a tree has long since mouldered into the earth.

When a group of frontiersmen camped on the middle fork of Elkhorn Creek heard about the militiamen's deaths in Massachusetts, they decided to name their outpost for the historic event. That is why what was then a part of Virginia is known today as Lexington, Kentucky.

then it was on to Boston and a big parade. "Finding this ceremony was not to be avoided though I had made every effort to do it," Washington recorded in his diary

Top Ramen, my favorite comfort food—because it's comforting to know that in the event of nuclear fallout, my food has enough MSG and preservatives to out-survive all of mankind.

Everyone's going to remember where they were when the taps went dry, I think. Like when a president is assassinated.

It's an Event. Events bypass anger, straight to damage control.

Tonight we witness the spectacle of human folly and tragedy," he said. "Tomorrow, we shall live it.

Perhaps… but you can't deny this is a turning point in your life, and every turning point must be marked by an event—one that burns itself into you as indelibly as a brand.

After 1492 the world's ecosystems collided and mixed as European vessels carried thousands of species to new homes across the oceans. The Columbian Exchange, as Crosby called it, is the reason there are tomatoes in Italy, oranges in the United States, chocolates in Switzerland, and chili peppers in Thailand. To ecologists, the Columbian Exchange is arguably the most important event since the death of the dinosaurs.

The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type of solidity, has oscillated like a thin crust beneath our feet; and in seeing the laboured works of man in a moment overthrown, we feel the insignificance of his boasted power.