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Malcolm Gladwell
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 3
Journalist
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Malcolm Timothy Gladwell
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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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In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.
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Happiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference.
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You need to have the ability to gracefully navigate the world.
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If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.
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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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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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You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in 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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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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An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.
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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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So the first task of a police force is not to fight crime and enforce the law. It is to establish legitimacy with the law-abiding citizenry and then fight crime and enforce the law.
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All artists have to do that at a certain point. This shift that has to happen between the initial moment of creation and then the consideration of what has been created.
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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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I know it sounds hard to believe, but habits laid down by our ancestors persist even after the conditions that created those habits have gone away.
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The difference isn't resources, it's attitude.
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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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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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I have a new way of doing things, and I don’t care if you think I’m crazy.
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