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Play Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell
- If you play an audiotape of a yawn to blind people, they'll yawn too.
- Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social…
- We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't.
- 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…
- Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to…
- Achievement is talent plus preparation. The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the…
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