Malcolm Gladwell Quotes

If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.

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• Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • People
  • Believe
  • Today

• I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.

  

  Wale
  • Me
  • Learning
  • Famous

• For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Most
  • Page
  • Twitter

• I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.

  

  Vince Carter
  • Want
  • Respect
  • Need

• I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Gym
  • Diet
  • Vegetarian

• My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Hero
  • White
  • Worship

• Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

  

  O. Henry
  • Life
  • Smiles
  • Sniffles

• I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • True
  • Myself
  • Afraid

• I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Love
  • Acting
  • Filmmaking

• It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Good
  • Power
  • Game

• The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Time
  • America
  • Water

• I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Up
  • May
  • Day

• Archery requires very sensitive muscles.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Very
  • Sensitive
  • Muscles

• When someone says something in an interview, the beauty of Twitter is that it's a platform for instantaneous response.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Beauty
  • Someone
  • Interview

• The Supreme Court, in 2005, emphasized and contrasted the great power of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce versus much more limited federal power under the discarded Articles of Confederation.

  

  Barbara Ann Radnofsky
  • Great
  • Power
  • Supreme Court

• The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Sweet
  • Dying
  • Sensation

• If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Believe
  • You
  • Mistake

• It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Good
  • Done
  • Reality

• He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Life
  • Men
  • Long

• Albert Grossman called my office and spoke with my partner Richard Leacock and asked if we'd be interested in making a film with his client, Bob Dylan.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Film
  • Partner
  • Office

• I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Music
  • Books
  • Lie

• Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • History
  • Me
  • Big

• Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different.

  

  Wendy Lesser
  • Different
  • Reading
  • Literature

• If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
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