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Malcolm Gladwell has 220 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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.
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The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and more importantly,…
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Shortly after the birth control pill was approved for public distribution, one woman wrote to John Rock, its inventor, "You should be…
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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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For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of…
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We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair
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The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.
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Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a…
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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…
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Living a long life, the conventional wisdom at the time said, depended to a great extent on who we were-that is, our…
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Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen.
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I've been in auditions without screens, and I can assure you that I was prejudiced. I began to listen with my eyes,…
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So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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Man has but little heeded the advice of the wise men. He has been - fatefully, if not willingly - less virtuous,…
— Ralph Bunche
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We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless:…
— Dan Ariely
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For in the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion. By a kind of Greshams law the more…
— Walter Lippmann
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When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.
— Jules de Goncourt
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If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone…
— Gloria Steinem
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Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity a a whole is changeful, mystical,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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...mediocre people find their way into positions of authority...because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Writers do not want to think they are less rational than other people, and at the mercy of compulsions, but in their…
— Hilary Mantel
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