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The goal of storytelling should be to make stories as ubiquitous as music.

Malcolm Gladwell

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Malcolm Gladwell
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 3
Journalist
Screenwriter
Sociologist
Writer
Malcolm Timothy Gladwell
Ubiquitous
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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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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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if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition
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I worry that track is going to enter into an impossibly complicated stage, where our understanding of the complexities of human physiology - and our ability to accentuate and exploit them - is going to make the notion of pure competition impossible.
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In a country that never wins anything: in Canada, if one of our athletes so much as makes the final in a World Championship, we declare a national holiday.
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When it's easy to make money, you have no incentive to think about development of talent.
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If we think about emotion this way - as outside-in, not inside out - it is possible to understand how some people can have an enormous amount of influence over others. Some of us, after all, are very good at expressiing emotions and feelings, which means that we are far more emotionally contagious than the rest of us.
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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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Innovation-the heart of the knowledge economy-is fundamentally social.
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The key to good decision making is not knowledge... It's whether our work fulfills us.
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I'm a purist: I start to wrinkle my nose when the Cold War ends.
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We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.
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When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.
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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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Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard.
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Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation.
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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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When writing, you can't break physical rules. You can't have people come back from the dead. That's cheating. I am a kind of narrative fundamentalist in many ways.
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If you look at the careers of great entrepreneurs and you look at the moment they took their plunge, the plunge is rarely a great financial or material risk, it’s a social risk. At the moment they started their new businesses, everyone around them said ‘you’re an idiot’.
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What track needs to figure out: how to engage us between the races. Instead, the entire off-the-track conversation is about doping. This is how you kill a sport.
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