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Malcolm Gladwell Inspirational Quotes (166)

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That was it! The whole Redwood City philosophy was based on a willingness to try harder than anyone else.
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What is learned out of hard work and trial is inevitably more powerful than what is learned easily.
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What must underlie successful epidemics, in the end, is a bedrock belief that change is possible, that people can radically transform their behavior or beliefs in the face of the right kind of impetus.
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It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.
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There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.
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Sometimes constraints actually create success. Not being able to swim made me run. And running taught me the discipline I needed as a writer.
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Our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. the internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency.
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If a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in charge. Soon, more windows will be broken, and the sense of anarchy will spread from the building to the street on which it faces, sending a signal that anything goes.
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The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.
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We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.
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Six degrees of separation doesn't mean that everyone is linked to everyone else in just six steps. It means that a very small number of people are linked to everyone else in a few steps, and the rest of us are linked to the world through those special few.
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Have you ever wondered... how religious movements get started? Usually, we think of them as a product of highly charismatic evangelists... but the spread of any new and contagious ideology also has a lot to do with the skillful use of group power.
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For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it.
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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
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What happens when two people talk? That is really the basic question here, because, that's the basic context in which all persuasion takes place.
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It's as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani.
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The conventional wisdom is often wrong. Crime didn't keep soaring in the 1990s, money alone doesn't win elections, and - surprise - drinking eight glasses of water a day has never actually been shown to do a thing for your health. Conventional wisdom is often shoddily formed and devilishly difficult to see through, but it can be done.
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The people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.
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As human beings, we always expect everyday change to happen slowly and steadily, and for there to be some relationship between cause and effect.
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Flom had the same experience...He didn't triumph over adversity. Instead, what started out as adversity ended up being an opportunity.
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If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.
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being able to act intelligently and instinctively in the moment is possible only after a long and rigorous of education and experience
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So long as the stereotype is used as a way of understanding how to fix the problem as opposed to demonizing a people or writing them off, then I think it's OK.
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Change your mind about something significant every day.
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