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I've always been baffled by h...

I've always been baffled by how much we over-rate the statistically insignificant differences that separate competitors at the top end of the distribution.

Malcolm Gladwell 316 quotes

My father read Charles Dicken...

My father read Charles Dickens to us as children, and at the end of virtually every novel he would choke up and start to cry - and my father NEVER cried. It always made me love him all the more.

Malcolm Gladwell 316 quotes

It changes how people read yo...

It changes how people read you if you believe in God. It gives insight into your motivation, how you look at problems and how you deal with people.

Malcolm Gladwell 316 quotes

Economists often talk about t...

Economists often talk about the 80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the “work” will be done by 20 percent of the participants. In most societies, 20 percent of criminals commit 80 percent of crimes. Twenty percent of motorists cause 80 percent of all accidents. Twenty percent of beer drinkers drink 80 percent of all beer. When it comes to epidemics, though, this disproportionality becomes even more extreme: a tiny percentage of people do the majority of the work.

Malcolm Gladwell 316 quotes

It takes ten thousand hours t...

It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient you are the more valuable you'll be.

Malcolm Gladwell 316 quotes

Success has to do with delibe...

Success has to do with deliberate practice. Practice must be focused, determined, and in an environment where there's feedback.

Malcolm Gladwell 316 quotes

If you don't contradict yours...

If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

Malcolm Gladwell 316 quotes

The single most important thi...

The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families.

Malcolm Gladwell 316 quotes

In fact, researchers have set...

In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.

Malcolm Gladwell 316 quotes

The conventional explanation ...

The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people of the book." There is surely something to that. But it wasn't just the children of rabbis who went to law school. It was the children of garment workers. And their critical advantage in climbing the professional ladder wasn't the intellectual rigor you get from studying the Talmud. It was the practical intelligence and savvy you get from watching your father sell aprons on Hester Street.

Malcolm Gladwell 316 quotes

Through embracing the diversi...

Through embracing the diversity of humans beings, we will find a sure way to true happiness.

Malcolm Gladwell 316 quotes

Our acquaintances—not our fri...

Our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. the internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency.

Malcolm Gladwell 316 quotes

The values of the world we in...

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

Malcolm Gladwell 316 quotes

Courage is what you earn when...

Courage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all.

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I suspect people who are inde...

I suspect people who are indecisive are people who are far too enamored of analysis in all settings and are destroying their ability to make an instinctive judgment through over-analysis and that's dangerous.

Malcolm Gladwell 316 quotes

Good writing does not succeed...

Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.

Malcolm Gladwell 316 quotes

Outlier are those who have be...

Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.

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I know it sounds hard to beli...

I know it sounds hard to believe, but habits laid down by our ancestors persist even after the conditions that created those habits have gone away.

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When people in authority want...

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

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Success is a function of pers...

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.

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

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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....