Canadian - Author | September 3, 1963 -
If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.
Malcolm Gladwell
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I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
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If I was President of the United States, I'd rather be right than interesting. If I was CEO of a company, I'd rather be right than interesting. But I'm a journalist - what journalist would rather be right than interesting?
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I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.
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I don't want a door bell. I don't want anyone ringing my door bell... seems to be intrusive. They can call me on their cell phones.
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I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.
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You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly people who want to help others optimize their physical and psychological health, and then have them run a claims-processing operation for insurance companies.
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Shallow communities are relatively easy to build.
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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
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For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
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I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.
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All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated.
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