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The particular skill that allows you to talk your way out of a murder rap, or convince your professor to move you from the morning to the afternoon section, is what the psychologist Robert Sternberg calls "practical intelligence." To Sternberg, practical intelligence includes things like "knowing what to say to whom, knowing when to say it, and knowing how to say it for for maximum effect.

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

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

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

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

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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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