Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
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The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
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If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.
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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 be great businessmen.
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Countless religious innovators over the years have played the game of establishing an identity for themselves by accentuating their otherness.
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All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated.
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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
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If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!
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It is useful to compare the Branch Davidians with the Mormons of the mid-nineteenth century. The Mormons were vilified in those years in large part because Joseph Smith believed in polygamy.
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Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.
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Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.
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People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.
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In my mid-adolescence, my friend Terry Martin and I became obsessed with William F. Buckley. This makes more sense when you realize that we were living in Bible Belt farming country miles from civilization. Buckley seemed impossibly exotic.
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We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.
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The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
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That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.
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You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.
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I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.
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The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.
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From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate.
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I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care.