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I should point out that I have a picture of Asbel Kiprop as the screensaver on my phone. Is that embarrassing?

Malcolm Gladwell

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Malcolm Gladwell
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 3
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Malcolm Timothy Gladwell
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My earliest memories of my father are of seeing him work at his desk and realizing that he was happy. I did not know it then, but that was one of the most precious gifts a father can give his child.
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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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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'm a purist: I start to wrinkle my nose when the Cold War ends.
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Jenny Simpson loses her shoe in the women's fifteen hundred, with a lap and a half to go, destroying her chances to repeat as world champion, and she gives the most gracious interview afterward about how she's had a wonderful career already. Great for Jenny Simpson. Bad for the sport! We need drama!
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Our world requires that decisions be sourced and footnoted, and if we say how we feel, we must also be prepared to elaborate on why we feel that way...We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that - sometimes - we're better off that way.
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If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.
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Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.
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Courage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all.
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Whenever we have something that we are good at--something we care about--that experience and passion fundamentally change the nature of our first impressions.
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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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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 don't really collect books. I tend to lose interest in them the minute I've read them, so most of the books I've read are left in airplanes and hotel rooms.
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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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We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don't matter at all.
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We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.
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When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.
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The nature of athletic celebrity is increasingly moving away from the actual field of play.
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If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.
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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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