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From Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell
- 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…
- Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.
- 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…
- People don't rise from nothing,
- You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a…
- Where they come from matters. They're products of particular places and environments.
- 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…
- Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.
- I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing....It is only by asking where…
- Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he…
- The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best…
- Re-reading is much underrated. I've read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold once every five years since I was 15. I only started…
- The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people of the book."…
- Anyone who has ever scanned the bookshelves of a new girlfriend or boyfriend- or peeked inside his or her medicine cabinet- understands this implicitly; you…
- The sense of possibility so necessary for success comes not just from inside us or from our parents. It comes from our time: from the…
- The particular skill that allows you to talk your way out of a murder rap, or convince your professor to move you from the morning…
- From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate.
- A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.
- Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country…
- When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to reduce economic anxiety…
- In my mid-adolescence, my friend Terry Martin and I became obsessed with William F. Buckley. This makes more sense when you realize that we were…
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