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Only Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell
- 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…
- 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…
- In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary genius. But if…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.
- 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…
- Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you…
- Character isn't what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn't a stable, easily identifiable set of closely related…
- being able to act intelligently and instinctively in the moment is possible only after a long and rigorous of education and experience
- The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle