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My highest compliment is when someone comes up to me to say, "My 14-year-old daughter, or my 12-year-old son read your book and loved it." I cannot conceive of a greater compliment than that - to write something that as an adult I find satisfying, but also that manages to reach a curious 13- or 14-year-old.

Malcolm Gladwell
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Malcolm Gladwell's Popular Quotes

I don't like things that aren't true.

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That's your responsibility as a person, as a human being - to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don't c…

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If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.

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Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.

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If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

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

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Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise.

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It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.

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The biggest mistake we make is trying to square the way we feel about something today with the way we felt about it yesterday. You shouldn’t even bot…

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