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Malcolm Gladwell is a Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker known for his thought-provoking books on psychology and social science. His works, such as "The Tipping Point" and "Outliers," explore the hidden patterns behind success and human behavior. He has become a leading voice in popularizing complex ideas for a wide audience. Here are 96 of his quotes:

Acquaintances, in sort, represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.

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Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!

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understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled.

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Outliers are those who have been given opportunities-and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.

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Look at the world around you. It may seem like an immovable, implacable place. It is not. With the slightest push-in just the right place-it can be tipped.

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If you make a great number of predictions, the ones that were wrong will soon be forgotten, and the ones that turn out to be true will make you famous.

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"Outlier” is a scientific term to describe things or phenomena that lie outside normal experience. In the summer, in Paris, we expect most days to be somewhere between warm and very hot. But imagine if you had a day in the middle of August where the temperature fell below freezing. That day would be outlier. And while we have a very good understanding of why summer days in Paris are warm or hot, we know a good deal less about why a summer day in Paris might be freezing cold. In this book I'm interested in people who are outliers-in men and women who, for one reason or another, are so accomplished and so extraordinary and so outside of ordinary experience that they are as puzzling to the rest of us as a cold day in August.

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You're always, as a journalist, walking this fine line between faithfully representing the complexity of the thing you're writing about and retaining your readers. The finest piece of journalism in the world is of no use if no one reads it. And getting people to read it requires compromises and sacrifices and all kinds of things. It is very hard to get it perfectly right. But I feel like over time, most good journalists, I think, do a pretty good job of balancing those things...

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The problems with framing it in terms of race is not that it is inaccurate, it absolutely is effective...but the minute you raise race, you derail the conversation and it becomes possible to dismiss this whole story as a story about a racist cop. Now he may be a racist cop, but that is not the issue, the issue is that the system with the best intentions set him up in a certain way.

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...You can't separate race from police shooting cases, but you also can't say that's the whole story. There's something out of whack with the way we've structured relationships-not just between police officers and civilians, but between strangers of all kinds.

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If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?

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It's those who lie outside ordinary experience who have the most to teach us.

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It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.

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Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig. (150)

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

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If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.

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It is the new and different that is always most vulnerable to market research.

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The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.

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Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation.

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Courage is not something that you already have that makes you brave when the tough times start. Courage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all.

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As the playwright George Bernard Shaw once put it: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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Any fool can spend money. But to earn it and save it and defer gratification-then you learn to value it differently.

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