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World Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell
- We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair
- The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.
- Six degrees of separation doesn't mean that everyone is linked to everyone else in just six steps. It means that a very small number of…
- 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…
- You need to have the ability to gracefully navigate the world.
- The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
- There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure…
- 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…
- To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success--the fortunate birth dates and…
- our world requires that decisions be sourced and footnoted, and if we say how we feel, we must also be prepared to elaborate on why…
- 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…
- We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and…
- ...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)
- You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle…
- The entire principle of a blind taste test was ridiculous. They shouldn't have cared so much that they were losing blind taste tests with old…
- The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden…
- The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
- A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.
- In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does world-class neurosurgery.
- 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…
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach