Canadian - Author | September 3, 1963 -
My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.
Malcolm Gladwell
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You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?
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We should be firing bad teachers.
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The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
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If you're skinny and you can't play hockey in Canada, you aren't left with a lot of options. I was left with running.
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Take the great example of the four-minute mile. One guy breaks it, then all of a sudden everyone breaks it. And they break it in such a short period of time that it can't be because they were training harder. It's purely that it was a psychological barrier, and someone had to show them that they could do it.
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I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.
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An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.
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If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.
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If you're last in your class at Harvard, it doesn't feel like you're a good student, even though you really are. It's not smart for everyone to want to go to a great school.
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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