Malcolm Gladwell Quotes

Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.

Malcolm Gladwell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FollowTraitorsAssumeWorseErrors

I thank my mom... I thank God for my mom every day because I think if it wasn't for her, who knows?

Joanna Krupa

GodDayMomThank GodThinkHer

I thought it was quintessentially American - very hip, very late-'60s. I was absolutely stunned when a German production company asked me if I could do a 'Sesame Street' in Germany. It was absolutely the happiest surprise.

Joan Ganz Cooney

MeThoughtSurpriseAmericanStreet

I was a monkey child. I was like a clown.

Andrew Garfield

ChildMonkeyClownLike

If I feel like if there's a few too many people on that path with me, then I want to jump off and find another one.

Maxine Peake

PathPeopleMeFeelFindJump

The original entrepreneur may initiate the initial purpose, but, in a sense, like a parent that has children, the children have their own destiny, and at some point, that can veer off away from the wishes the parent might have for it.

John Mackey

ChildrenPurposeDestinyParentOwn

This fundraising is consuming us. It's impossible to overstate, I think, what it's doing to members and their ability to just focus on the job that they were elected to do. The collective concentration of the institution is being undermined every day by the need to fund-raise.

John Sarbanes

FocusDayJobImpossibleThinkNeed

Sustainability has to be a way of life to be a way of business.

Anand Mahindra

LifeBusinessSustainabilityWay

I am anti-Halloween.

Mary H.K. Choi

I AmAm

It kind of irritates me that I'm seen as this pretty face. People also say I'm too thin. The truth is pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas.

Mischa Barton

TruthPeopleMeTruth IsFaceKind

I think what's great about your community is that it's different than anyone else's. Look around. What do you want to change? What needs to be built, or what's valuable and needs to be maintained? Is it the people? Local animals? Your parks or gardens? Hospitals?

Debby Ryan

ChangeCommunityGreatPeopleThink

We hear people talk about putting a price on carbon, but they won't talk about how much that price of carbon is.

Cory Gardner

PeoplePriceTalkCarbonHearMuch

It's a very short walk to go from making jokes to getting on a soapbox and going on a diatribe.

Wyatt Cenac

WalkShortGoJokesGoingMaking

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