Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.
Quotes to Explore
-
Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
-
I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
-
We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
-
I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.
-
In America, music is more tightly categorized.
-
The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
-
If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
-
It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.
-
I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
-
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
-
Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.
-
The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.
-
I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
-
Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
-
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
-
I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
-
If you're on a budget, Sweetgreen is a new chain of salad bars that are very good but inexpensive. You choose from a menu or customise your own, with some protein, a healthy salad and a great dressing.
-
My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
-
Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.
-
It's hard sometimes if you think a character should look a certain way and you're being pushed to do it differently. I've had fights over that. That's why it's so important that you work with good people.
-
I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.
-
They even want unelected panels of bureaucrats to decide who gets what life-saving medical care and who is just too old or it’s too expensive to be worth saving.
-
The mentality has taken over because of the way we've promoted things. It's been accepted, to live with fear, and to fear that it's going to be terrible, prepare for the worst. The meat and potato of our existence right now is influenced by what happened after 9/11 - we put our thinking into protecting borders.
-
I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.
