"Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and……" — Malcolm Gladwell
"Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and that's because they don't understand how complex and paradoxical our snap judgments are. It's hard to measure new songs."
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219 Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell
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[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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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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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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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
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Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result…
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I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more…
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The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its…
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The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and…
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Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty…
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The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry. But we live in a complex world where you're…
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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification…
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Life is too complex to compress into soundbites. Every situation is different.
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My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex…
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The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
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I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.
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