Malcolm Gladwell Short Quotes

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In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.

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We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.

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Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

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The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty.

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If you play an audiotape of a yawn to blind people, they'll yawn too.

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Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.

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It's those who lie outside ordinary experience who have the most to teach us.

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It is the new and different that is always most vulnerable to market research.

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When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.

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There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.

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Where they come from matters. They're products of particular places and environments.

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A prediction, in a field where prediction is not possible, is no more than a prejudice.

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Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.

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The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.

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No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.

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The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.

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Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

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A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.

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Decisions made very quickly can be every bit as good as decisions made cautiously and deliberately.

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When people in authority want the rest of us to behave, it matters-first and foremost-how they behave.

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You can't concentrate on doing anything if you are thinking, What's gonna happen if it doesn't go right?

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If we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition

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There is a simple way to package information that, under the right circumstances, can make it irresistible.

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The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom.

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There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.

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An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.

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Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.

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We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

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The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.

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The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

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