"A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention."

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Source : Malcolm Gladwell (2013). “David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants”, p.85, Hachette UK

Malcolm Gladwell

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“Chance favors the connected mind.”

Source : Steven Johnson (2010). “Where Good Ideas Come From”, p.110, Penguin
“By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in.”

Source : Carl Andre, James Sampson Meyer (2005). “Cuts: Texts 1959-2004”, p.85, MIT Press
“I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.”
“Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the lower ranges. In other words, you almost have to hit a home run. You can hit a triple, maybe, but nobody's interested in a single.”
“I was attracted to climbing mountains because of the physical dangers, but also the challenges, like 'mental fortitude, physical fortitude, judgement.' It's the intensity of the experience, at a sustained level. The experience is incredibly intense because it is so dangerous.”
“We need to be kinder with one another, more gentle and forgiving. We need to be slower to anger and more prompt to help. We need to extend the hand of friendship and resist the hand of retribution. In short, we need to love one another with the pure love of Christ, with genuine charity and compassion and, if necessary, shared suffering, for that is the way God loves us.”

Source : Howard W. Hunter (1994). “That We Might Have Joy”, Shadow Mountain
“Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus: We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes.”
“No one ever loved you like him. And no one ever took it away so completely. But it's here. Look around.”

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