Annoying Quote by Malcolm Gladwell Download Open image “Incompetence annoys me. Overconfidence terrifies me.” — Malcolm Gladwell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Annoying Incompetence Overconfidence
The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself. — Orrin Woodward Copy Share Image
One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself. — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“Incompetence has one other advantage. Not only does it reduce what others expect and demand of you, it reduces what you expect or even… — John Holt Copy Share Image
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. Think about it. People aren't out to get you, they're just stupid. — Jane Espenson Copy Share Image
“I know the word "incompetent" from my father. He uses it when there's something political on TV, or when he and Uncle Miki are… — Saša Stanišić Copy Share Image
“Overconfidence leads to carelessness, which leads just as surely to disaster.” — Sally MacKenzie Copy Share Image
When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“The scholars who research happiness suggest that more money stops making people happier at a family income of around seventy-five thousand dollars a year.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating.They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Some people look like they sound better than they actually sound, because they look confident and have good posture," once musician, a veteran of… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“neighborhood was filled with engineers from Hewlett-Packard, then as now one of” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“People are ruined by challenged economic lives. But they are ruined by wealth as well because they lose their ambition and they lose their… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people of the… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
At Epcot Center the Disney corporation has focused its attention on two things greatly in need of Disneyfication: the tedious future and the annoying… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The book it reminded me of most is Henry Miller’s The Books in My Life. Like Miller, Shields manages to convey his affection for… — Andre Alexis Copy Share Image
When you're standing around for an hour doing stand up it's no big deal but when you're standing around watching a show for an… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Die, enemies of Ra!" Sekhemet yelled. "Perish in agony!" "She's almost as annoying as you," I told Horus. "Impossible," Horus said. "No one bests… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
...Be grateful for what you have to be thankful for instead of complaining about the little things that annoy you. — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Would you want people walking up to you and pointing at your d--k? I can't believe I'm still talking about this. But I've worn… — Jon Hamm Copy Share Image
I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
WikiLeaks is irritating and annoying for Germany, but not a threat. From an international perspective, I see their actions as totally irresponsible. — Thomas de Maiziere Copy Share Image