"The willingness to be self-critical in England is……" — Malcolm Gladwell
"The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America."
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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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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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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just…
— Paul Auster
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What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear…
— Desi Arnaz
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When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
— Arthur Ashe
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
— Bashar al-Assad
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Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and…
— Bashar al-Assad
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There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful…
— Chinua Achebe
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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
— John James Audubon
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