"[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight,……" — Malcolm Gladwell
"[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet."
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219 Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell has 219 quotes on this site.
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The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and…
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Shortly after the birth control pill was approved for public distribution, one woman wrote to John Rock, its inventor, "You…
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The people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much…
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For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word…
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We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair
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The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who…
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Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I…
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Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and that's because they don't understand how complex and paradoxical our snap judgments…
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Living a long life, the conventional wisdom at the time said, depended to a great extent on who we were-that…
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Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen.
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I've been in auditions without screens, and I can assure you that I was prejudiced. I began to listen with…
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Whenever we have something that we are good at--something we care about--that experience and passion fundamentally change the nature of…
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Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a…
— Dan Aykroyd
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The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's…
— Bob Beauprez
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Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable…
— Warren Buffett
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Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s.…
— James Buchan
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There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil…
— James Buchan
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They wanna bury me im worried. Im loosin my mind look down the barrel of my nine and my visions…
— Tupac Shakur
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As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet…
— Kevin Keegan
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During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant…
— Abraham Lincoln
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When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs…
— J P Donleavy
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I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting…
— Isak Dinesen
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Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Im straight... But my girl a faggot... Potato on the barrel... Potato salad
— Lil Wayne
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