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Malcolm Gladwell


Canadian
September 3, 1963
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The underdog winning is the romantic position.


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My mother read me biblical stories at night.


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My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.


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The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.


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A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.


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We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.


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An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.
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When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.


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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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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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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 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 older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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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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There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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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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In cross-country skiing, athletes propel themselves over distances of ten and twenty miles - a physical challenge that places intense demands on the ability of their red blood cells to deliver oxygen to their muscles.
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What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
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I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.
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You walk into the class in second grade. You can't read. What are you going to do if you're going to make it? You identify the smart kid. You make friends with him. You sit next to him. You grow a team around you. You delegate your work to others. You learn how to talk your way out of a tight spot.
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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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