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Malcolm Gladwell
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 3
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The key to good decision making is not knowledge... It's whether our work fulfills us.
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The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.
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You need to have the ability to gracefully navigate the world.
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We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
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People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency.
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Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation.
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Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.
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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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I have a new way of doing things, and I don’t care if you think I’m crazy.
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understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled.
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Success has to do with deliberate practice. Practice must be focused, determined, and in an environment where there's feedback.
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A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.
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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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I've been in auditions without screens, and I can assure you that I was prejudiced. I began to listen with my eyes, and there is no way that your eyes don't affect your judgement. The only true way to listen is with your ears and your heart. (p.251)
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One of the things I think the police have to do is to stop behaving like armies.
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Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?
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The Band-Aid solution is actually the best kind of solution because it involves solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort and time and cost.
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We tend to credit those who create an idea, not those who perfect it, forgetting that it is often only in the perfection of an idea that true progress occurs. Putting sixty-four transistors on a chip allowed people to dream of the future. Putting four million transistors on a chip actually gave them the future.
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My writing model is my mother, who is a writer as well. She always valued clarity and simplicity above all else. If someone doesn't understand what you're writing, then everything else you do is superfluous. Irrelevant. If any thoughtful, curious reader finds what I do impenetrable, I've failed.
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