Quote by Malcolm Gladwell Download Open image ““put down the roots, and the rabbits and lumberjacks they were lucky enough to avoid? This is not”” — Malcolm Gladwell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Those rabbits stopped fighting the system, because it was easier to take the loss of freedom, to forget what it was like before the… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“those roots were made for walking. And that’s not all they do.” — Christopher L. Bennett Copy Share Image
“All backwoods folks were poor by material standards; they knew how to make do. They were not wanting to tame the wildness, in themselves… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“In many ways, this place wasn’t so different from the lumberyards his men had recently escaped.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Our backs hut from gathering them: how hard they were to find among the concealing leaves, the frosted deceiving grass.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Farming, I discovered, is a great and ongoing war. The farmers are continually fighting to keep nature behind the hedgerow, and nature is continually… — Kristin Kimball Copy Share Image
“Another item that appeared in the backyard was rabbits. Bear would chase them away.” — J. Wesley Porter Copy Share Image
“The stunted pines elude capture in a thousand sidetracked increments. The wind will never understand them. Like us it is forced to go on.” — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
“...when all the time it was that grand tree, taking up half the garden with its roots and not allowing anything else to grow.” — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Roots, I sometimes think, are a conservative myth, designed to keep us in our places.” — Salman Rushdie 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. After that, what economists call “diminishing marginal returns” sets in. If your family makes seventy-five thousand and your neighbor makes a hundred thousand, that extra twenty-five thousand a year means that your neighbor can drive a… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
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 many auditions, says. "Other people look awful when they play but sound great. Other people have that belabored look when they play, but you can't hear it in the sound. There is always this dissonance between… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
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 book." There is surely something to that. But it wasn't just the children of rabbis who went to law school. It was the children of garment workers. And their critical advantage in climbing the professional ladder… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share