Malcolm Gladwell

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“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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“The lucky person passes for a genius.” — Euripides

“Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.” — Margaret Laurence

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

“A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.” — Martin H. Fischer

 

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“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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“If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.” — Malcolm Gladwell

“Don’t try to figure out what you want to do with the rest of your life. You are going to be a very different person in two or three years, and that person will have his own ideas. All you can really figure out is what you want to do right now.” — William Deresiewicz

“The larger question is, as virologist Jonas Salk once asked, ‘Are we being good ancestors?'” — Steven Johnson, How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

“I used to keep my college roommate from reading my personal mail by hiding it in her textbooks.” — Joan Walsh Anglund

 

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“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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“The prettier the garden, the dirtier the hands of the gardener.” — B. E. Barnes

“But remember, doubts are not the enemy of belief; they are its companion.” — Malcolm Gladwell

“When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.” — Maya Angelou

“We don’t just have egg on our face; we have omelette all over our suits.” — Tom Brokaw

 

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“The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.” — Alain de Botton

“How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.” — J.R.R. Tolkien

“You can learn as much – or more – from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.” — Malcolm Gladwell

“I’d be the only dad keeping his kids home from school to teach me how to get to the next level on a video game.” — Clinton Jackson

 

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“Criticism is a privilege that you earn — it shouldn’t be your opening move in an interaction.” — Malcolm Gladwell

“‘True fact.’ Technically speaking, that expression is a pleonasm — a redundant description — since all facts are, by definition, true.” — Kathryn Schulz

“I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed.” — Bryce Courtenay

“The four most beautiful words in our common language: ‘I told you so.’” — Gore Vidal

 

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“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.” — Jessamyn West

“Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.” — Grenville Kleiser

“We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.” — Malcolm Gladwell

“Why is there an interstate highway in Hawaii?” — Gallagher

 
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“It is impossible to sling mud with clean hands.” — Confucius

“There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.” — Malcolm Gladwell

“Still there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.” — Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

“I wasn’t affected by inflation, I had nothing to inflate.” — Gerald Barzan

 

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“You can’t choose the ways in which you’ll be tested.” — Robert J. Sawyer

“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new.” — Ursula K. Le Guin

“The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.” — Malcolm Gladwell

“Old age is like everything else; to make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.” — Theodore Roosevelt

 

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“You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.” — Jim Rohn

“Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.” — Malcolm Gladwell

“How beautiful it is to find someone who asks for nothing but your company.” — Brigitte Nicole

“The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.” — Sam Ewing

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“Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.” — Malcolm Gladwell

“Within every acorn there is the dream of an oak tree.” — JBR inspired by Sue Monk Kidd

“If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.” — Emile Zola

“My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.” — Quentin Crisp