Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
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Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community.
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Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.
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In the government's eyes, the Branch Davidians were a threat.
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I don't think I will ever write about politics or foreign policy. I feel like there is so much good writing in those areas that I have little to add. I also like to steer clear of writing about people whom I do not personally like.
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When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to reduce economic anxiety and uncertainty.
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There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.
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An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone.
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If you're skinny and you can't play hockey in Canada, you aren't left with a lot of options. I was left with running.
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We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.
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I grew up in southwestern Ontario in the heart of a Mennonite community. All my family are part of the Mennonite church.
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My rule is that if I interview someone, they should never read what I have to say about them and regret having given me the interview.
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So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field.
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If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?
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We should be firing bad teachers.
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As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid.
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I try to be unafraid of making a fool of myself.
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The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.
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Age-class running, as you know, is completely unreliable. It's based on this artificial thing, which is that people who are the same age have the same level of physical maturity. Which just isn't true.
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My mother read me biblical stories at night.
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You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly people who want to help others optimize their physical and psychological health, and then have them run a claims-processing operation for insurance companies.