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Instinct is the gift of exper...

Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good.

Malcolm Gladwell 316 quotes

Clear writing is universal. P...

Clear writing is universal. People talk about writing down to an audience or writing up to an audience; I think that's nonsense. If you write in a way that is clear, transparent, and elegant, it will reach everyone.

Malcolm Gladwell 316 quotes

We have the kind of self-made...

We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.

Malcolm Gladwell 316 quotes

We overlook just how large a ...

We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't.

Malcolm Gladwell 316 quotes

You don't start at the top if...

You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.

Malcolm Gladwell 316 quotes

You can learn as much - or mo...

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 316 quotes

Those three things - autonomy...

Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.

Malcolm Gladwell 316 quotes

I don't really collect books....

I don't really collect books. I tend to lose interest in them the minute I've read them, so most of the books I've read are left in airplanes and hotel rooms.

Malcolm Gladwell 316 quotes

If you're in business it's bo...

If you're in business it's both a promise and a warning. It says that sometimes little things can cause some little guy to have an overnight success.

Malcolm Gladwell 316 quotes

Giants are not what we think ...

Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.

Malcolm Gladwell 316 quotes

Cultural legacies are powerfu...

Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.

Malcolm Gladwell 316 quotes

There is more going on beneat...

There is more going on beneath the surface than we think, and more going on in little, finite moments of time than we would guess.

Malcolm Gladwell 316 quotes

Sometimes [genius] is just th...

Sometimes [genius] is just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table.

Malcolm Gladwell 316 quotes

The entire principle of a bli...

The entire principle of a blind taste test was ridiculous. They shouldn't have cared so much that they were losing blind taste tests with old Coke, and we shouldn't at all be surprised that Pepsi's dominance in blind taste tests never translated to much in the real world. Why not? Because in the real world, no one ever drinks Coca-Cola blind.

Malcolm Gladwell 316 quotes

The issue isn't the accuracy ...

The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and more importantly, whether you ought to use bombs at all.

Malcolm Gladwell 316 quotes

extreme visual clarity, tunne...

extreme visual clarity, tunnel vision, diminished sound, and the sense that time is slowing down. this is how the human body reacts to extreme stress.

Malcolm Gladwell 316 quotes

Asian culture has a profoundl...

Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.

Malcolm Gladwell 316 quotes

When the students were asked ...

When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the negative stereotypes associated with African Americans and academic achievement. If a white student from a prestigious private high school gets a higher SAT score than a black student from an inner-city school, is it because she’s truly a better student, or is it because to be white and to attend a prestigious high school is to be constantly primed with the idea of “smart”?

Malcolm Gladwell 316 quotes

If your parents are billionai...

If your parents are billionaires, that might actually be an obstacle to your own happiness and self-development. If you go to Oxford or Harvard, that might actually thwart your desire to graduate with a science or math degree.

Malcolm Gladwell 316 quotes

When we become expert in some...

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

Malcolm Gladwell 316 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....