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Malcolm Gladwell Quotes

Canadian - Author | September 3, 1963 -

From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate.

Malcolm Gladwell

Birds Flight Know Capable Medieval

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

Malcolm Gladwell

Imagination World Visionary Clean

The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.

Malcolm Gladwell

People Underdog Opportunities Doors

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

Malcolm Gladwell

Appreciate Know Mean First Always

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

Malcolm Gladwell

Beautiful Struggle World Most About

The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.

Malcolm Gladwell

Anger Criticism Be Nice Nice Used

There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.

Malcolm Gladwell

Justice World Fairness Illusion

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.

Malcolm Gladwell

Challenge Red Skiing Blood Places

A runner needs not just to be skinny but - more specifically - to have skinny calves and ankles, because every extra pound carried on your extremities costs more than a pound carried on your torso. That's why shaving even a few ounces off a pair of running shoes can have a significant effect.

Malcolm Gladwell

Shoes Why More Shaving Skinny Off

The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

Malcolm Gladwell

Fear Lose Say Understand Way More

If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?

Malcolm Gladwell

Value Forward Someone Doing You Go

I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care.

Malcolm Gladwell

Life Love Health Quality Medical

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