"We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for."

-- Malcolm Gladwell

#Success Quotes #Problem Quotes #Storytelling Quotes

“Worse than being blind would be to be able to see but not have any vision.”
“B*tch: a reflection of peopleâ€™s lack of creativity & inability to acknowledge & embrace a powerful woman; a woman who wonâ€™t comply.”
“I wasn't the brightest kid in school. I was a backbencher troubling the frontbencher, and eventually I failed in my 10th grade. But then in higher secondary, there were only three people who got first division in arts, and I was one of them. So this tells you, where you put your mind and heart into, that's where you go.”
“That's the conditions that prevail!”

Source : "Current Biography: Who's News and Why". Book by Anna Rothe (p. 168), 1946.
“Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans, most of them white. And they did so on the same campusâ€”and at the very same timeâ€”that state officials were conducting the infamous Tuskegee syphilis studies.”

Source : Rebecca Skloot (2010). “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, p.97, Broadway Books
“I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.”
“But this is Miami, you can't come to Miami and not show any skin. You gotta show something. If you're all covered up in this heat, you're gonna make me pass out out just to look at you. It's sweaty in Miami - but the diamonds will keep me cool.”
“Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.”

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