Malcolm Gladwell Quotes

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• [Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet.
• The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and more importantly, whether you ought…
• Shortly after the birth control pill was approved for public distribution, one woman wrote to John Rock, its inventor, "You should be afraid to meet…
• The people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.
• For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it.
• We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair
• The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.
• Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If…
• Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and that's because they don't understand how complex and paradoxical our snap judgments are. It's hard to measure…
• Living a long life, the conventional wisdom at the time said, depended to a great extent on who we were-that is, our genes. It depended…
• Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen.
• 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…
• 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.
• To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fisher got to that elite level in less than…
• There is more going on beneath the surface than we think, and more going on in little, finite moments of time than we would guess.
• I have a new way of doing things, and I don’t care if you think I’m crazy.
• Courage is what you earn when you’ve been through the tough times and you discover they aren’t so tough after all,
• When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the negative…
• The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom.
• Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.

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