Malcolm Gladwell Quotes

I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.

Malcolm Gladwell

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• What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Freedom
  • Expression
  • Without

• Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • Intelligent
  • Try

• Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Best
  • Worst
  • Prepare

• I just want to live on the road. I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night. If I'm not performing every night, I get totally depressed. I know that sounds really weird, but I hate sitting at home and not having a 1 A.M. performance now. It kills me.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Live
  • Home
  • Night

• I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Life
  • Father
  • Sweet

• Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • True
  • Free
  • Strong

• I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Play
  • Professional
  • First

• The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • People
  • Children
  • Free

• Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Character

• Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Why

• Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • World
  • Man
  • Comedy

• I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Hope
  • Career
  • Win

• If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Help
  • Pretty
  • Parent

• When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Knowledge

• I did a shoot with massive iguanas in Costa Rica when I was modeling back then. They were like little dinosaurs, and they sat right across my arms and by my face. The guy told me not to make any sudden movements because they had enormous claws. The guy said he would rip my skin if he attacked.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Said

• It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Red
  • Say
  • Texas

• You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Truth
  • You
  • Woman

• You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Respect
  • Rights
  • Have

• Contrary to Western evangelicalism’s obsession with the individual, discipleship is and always was a group project. No one in the New Testament followed independent of other followers.

  

  Ed Stetzer
  • Independent
  • Obsession
  • Followers

• I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Research
  • Scene
  • Through

• My research clearly reveals that if we want to put inner-city workers to work immediately, we just can't rely on the private sector. They don't want to touch them; they don't want to hire them.

  

  William Julius Wilson
  • Want
  • Research
  • Cities

• Any time you can be with like-minded people, laughing or crying over the same joke or the same scene... For me it's therapeutic. You just feel a little less alone on the planet.

  

  Michael De Luca
  • Time
  • Scene
  • Crying

• I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Research
  • Academic
  • Storyteller