Malcolm Gladwell Quotes

What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.

Malcolm Gladwell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: September 3, 1963

Topics

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I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.

Mavis Staples

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The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher.

Amy Chua

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I try to be happy, but I'm never happy. I don't believe in happiness. I was happy yesterday, but today and tomorrow is a different story.

Sirio Maccioni

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It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

Sissy Spacek

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As an actor, if I just did sci-fi, I think it would get limiting, like if you just play lawyers or doctors, over and over. It's a lot more fun, if you get to play lots of different types of characters.

Tricia Helfer

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I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

Roger Kahn

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Each of my career decisions has been very much about doing what I wanted to achieve in the role and then finding another challenge.

Chris Liddell

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I've just always sort of been mesmerized by our minds and how people think and how people react differently.

Chris Wood

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By the age of nine, I had a thorough knowledge of contemporary Polish literature as well as of foreign literature in Polish translation, and I began to write poems in honour of a lady of thirty years. Naturally, she knew nothing about them.

Wladyslaw Reymont

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A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

Todd Gitlin

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People with 401(k)s need to be very conservative. Picking bottoms should be for insiders and traders.

Rick Santelli

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I met Steve Austin at an airport in 2005, and he gave me the best piece of advice I could ever receive - to keep running my mouth and never stop talking! I took that advice to heart, and it has helped me get where I am today.

Kevin Owens

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