Malcolm Gladwell quote: "Take the great example of the four-minute mile. One guy breaks it, then all of a sudden everyone breaks it. And they break it in such a short period of time that it can't be because they were training harder. It's purely that it was a psychological barrier, and someone had to show them that they could do it."

A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.
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I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do ...
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An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little...
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The underdog winning is the romantic position.
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Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability...
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As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid.
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The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he...
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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petul...
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I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse....
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In cross-country skiing, athletes propel themselves over distances of ten and twenty miles - a physi...
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What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't jud...
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You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly peo...
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Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technol...
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It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.
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If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you ru...
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We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leader...
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That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have...
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Achievement is talent plus preparation
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We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal...
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Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.
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There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.
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A runner needs not just to be skinny but - more specifically - to have skinny calves and ankles, bec...
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There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of i...
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I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ...
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The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens door...
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Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all t...
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We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't...
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The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
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..... it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and ...
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If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social ...
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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And t...
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The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
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The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a ben...
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I don't want a door bell. I don't want anyone ringing my door bell... seems to be intrusive....
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Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
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Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize th...
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In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten t...
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People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.
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You walk into the class in second grade. You can't read. What are you going to do if you're ...
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If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious...
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You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposu...
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We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations...
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The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emoti...
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It is the new and different that is always most vulnerable to market research
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It is quite possible for people who have never met us and who have spent only twenty minutes thinkin...
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It would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and comes ...
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There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - bec...
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There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is ver...
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I hope I have encouraged people in business to expand the way they make sense of human behavior.
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It was not the privileged and the fortunate who took in the Jews in France. It was the marginal and ...
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That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victor...
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We all assume that if you're weak and poor, you're never going to win. In fact, the real wor...
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So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innov...
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Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.
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The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in t...
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Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fai...
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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 best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is...
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When we make a split-second decision,” Payne says, “we are really vulnerable to being guided by ...
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Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can ...
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Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily...
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A critic looking at these tightly focused, targeted interventions might dismiss them as Band-Aid sol...
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Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profound...
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Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one ...
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You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.
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In life, most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. All the improvisation teacher has to d...
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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a han...
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We live in a world that assumes that the quality of a decision is directly related to the time and e...
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The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former...
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Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But tha...
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That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice t...
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the single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people...
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PEOPLE are experience rich and theory poor. People who are busy doing things ? as opposed to people ...
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Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and that's because they don't understand how com...
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Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis a...
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It is useful to compare the Branch Davidians with the Mormons of the mid-nineteenth century. The Mor...
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Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.
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Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most pe...
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I suspect people who are indecisive are people who are far too enamored of analysis in all settings ...
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What do we tell our children? ... Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't jud...
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A country that displays an almost ruthless commitment to efficiency and performance in every aspect ...
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[Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we ...
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...legitimacy is based on three things. First of all, the people who are asked to obey authority hav...
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In Hamburg we played for 8 hours a day! John Lennon, regarding experience in honing talents
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Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation...
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We are all of us not merely liable to fear, we are also prone to be afraid of being afraid, and the ...
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We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always ...
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If a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no ...
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S.J.’s second wife, Eloise, decided to have him killed, so she hired two hit men — one of whom, ...
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I grew up in southwestern Ontario in the heart of a Mennonite community. All my family are part of t...
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In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight...
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Both Jim and I are interested in the limits of conventional decision-making. The idea that an expert...
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically ga...
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The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, ...
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We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred t...
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best in...
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Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and op...
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if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid co...
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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In my mid-adolescence, my friend Terry Martin and I became obsessed with William F. Buckley. This ma...
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors...
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In the six degrees of separation, not all degrees are equal.
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Six degrees of separation doesn't mean that everyone is linked to everyone else in just six steps. I...
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I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he c...
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The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism ca...
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It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one—not rock stars, not...
MALCOLM GLADWELL

Anyone who has ever scanned the bookshelves of a new girlfriend or boyfriend- or peeked inside his o...
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We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too...
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It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special...
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The answer is that we are not helpless in the face of our first impressions. They may bubble up from...
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If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a com...
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Character isn't what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn't a stable, easily ide...
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For almost a generation, psychologists around the world have been engaged in a spirited debate over ...
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No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.
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Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside o...
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When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.
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It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether o...
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We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes ...
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Emotion is contagious.
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Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind o...
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...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the...
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It made me realize that I'd changed what I thought was a trivial aspect of who I was but it profound...
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It's the boiling point. It's the moment when the line starts to shoot straight upwards.
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The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect ...
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Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two ...
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Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!
MALCOLM GLADWELL

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
MALCOLM X

I've always thought that gaming and YouTube and the web is a very post-punk extravaganza.
MALCOLM MCLAREN

America preaches integration and practices segregation.
MALCOLM X

You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by th...
MALCOLM X

Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divor...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more ...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

To ask if I am mischievous is the understatement of all time.
MALCOLM GETS

Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pret...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

Study after study has demonstrated that people are better off financially, healthier, happier if the...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

Mitt Romney speaking to a $50,000-a-plate Republican fundraiser says he doesn't have to worry ab...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press re...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.
MALCOLM TURNBULL

The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that&#...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

I do not believe we can effectively move Australia to a lower emission economy, which is what we nee...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make su...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of ...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the hones...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

It's not a 24-hour news cycle, it's a 60-second news cycle now, it's instantaneous. It h...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matte...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it&#...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

In economics, one of the most important concepts is 'opportunity cost' - the idea that once ...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adop...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

He was not only a bore; he bored for England.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then th...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people co...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is ...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to g...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN

Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or c...
MALCOLM MCLAREN

I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.
MALCOLM MCLAREN

I saw a picture of Elvis in blue lame, and thought that if I could recreate that suit and walk down ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN

Sid Vicious began the age of participation in which everyone could be the artist. Sid proved that yo...
MALCOLM MCLAREN

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've ju...
MALCOLM MCLAREN

I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some...
MALCOLM MCLAREN

The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
MALCOLM MCLAREN

Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
MALCOLM MCLAREN

I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN

Don't kill the golden goose.
MALCOLM MCLAREN

Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN

There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn righ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN

Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN

What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may ch...
MALCOLM MCLAREN

I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN

I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I love doing every role I do!
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limi...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

There are no great scripts - just great films.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there'...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I don't worry about whether I'm making a masterpiece, because I know that if you get just on...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

If you dunk your head in cold water, you can't stay under for more than five seconds. I mean, th...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherw...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

If you look a little punkish, then they're going to give you the parts. And if you play an iconi...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I'm not quite as buoyant as I was in my youth.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are jus...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try ...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous inte...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
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