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Emotion is contagious.

Malcolm Gladwell

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Malcolm Gladwell
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 3
Journalist
Screenwriter
Sociologist
Writer
Malcolm Timothy Gladwell
Contagious
Entrepreneur
Emotion
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That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.
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The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.
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Track is full of the absolute nicest and most polite athletes in all of sports, and where does it get us?
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That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop thinking and introspecting so much and do a little more acting.
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Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.
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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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Father: 'Anything but journalism.' I rebelled.
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I have a new way of doing things, and I don’t care if you think I’m crazy.
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We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.
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The poorer children were, to her mind, often better behaved, less whiny, more creative in making use of their own time, and have a well-developed sense of independence.
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Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.
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It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.
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You may hate Hillary Clinton and you may have good reason for hating Hillary Clinton, but Hillary Clinton is one person who even if she's elected will be gone one day and you still have the task of keeping American democracy going.
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Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. If you let the test run for 15 minutes, the Japanese kids will not have given up. You have to take it away.
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We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.
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There’s this powerful phrase in the legal world, “Difficult cases make bad law.” The exception is the difficult case. You can’t generalize them by definition. So although they are fascinating, they don’t solve any problem because they’re so one of a kind.
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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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There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.
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People can't do much about the fate part, but we can certainly do a lot about the man part.
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To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success--the fortunate birth dates and the happy accidents of history--with a society that provides opportunities for all.
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