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Firsts Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell
- Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If…
- 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.
- You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first…
- Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs…
- So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first…
- We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.
- The answer is that we are not helpless in the face of our first impressions. They may bubble up from the unconscious - from behind…
- Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions . . . by changing…
- Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone first engages in hours of highly…
- Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are products of history…
- People are in one of two states in a relationship,†Gottman went on. “The first is what I call positive sentiment override, where positive emotion…
- That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.
- our unconscious reactions come out of a locked room, and we can't look inside that room. but with experience we become expert at using our…
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