"Last year, the journalist Malcolm Gladwell conducted a survey of chief executive officers of Fortune 500 companies for his book Blink. He discovered that while in the US population 14.5 per cent of all men are 6ft (1.83m) or taller, among CEOs of Fortune 500 companies the proportion is 58 per cent. And while 3.9 per cent of American adults are 6ft 2in or taller, almost a third of the CEOs were that tall."

-- Daniel Finkelstein

#Book Quotes #Men Quotes #Years Quotes

“I'm not disappointed with bronze. It's always good to come away with a medal.”
“As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.”
“The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.”
“The most important thing I have done is to combine something esoteric with a practical issue that affects many people.”
“Here's a riddle: When is a croquet mallet like a billy club? I'll tell you: Whenever you want it to be!”

Source : "Fictional character: Cheshire Cat". Video Game "Alice", www.imdb.com. 2000.
“Only when he has published his ideas and findings has the scientist made his contribution, and only when he has thus made it part of the public domain of scholarship can he truly lay claim to it as his own. For his claim resides only in the recognition accorded by peers in the social system of science through reference to his work.”
“I worked with a mime coach. I did weapons training. I did weight training.”
“We tend to think of the problems of globalization and cultural identity as peculiar to our times. In fact they are rooted in ancient problems of civic belonging.”

Source : Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.3, Rowman & Littlefield

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