"People are experience-rich and theory-poor."

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Source : "The man who can't stop thinking" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2008.

Malcolm Gladwell

#People Quotes #Experience Quotes #Rich Quotes

“Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.”
“I once had a letter from a man who asked to do something very weird. He told me he wanted to sit on my shoulders and for me to then walk around his town to raise money for charity. He described himself as being 6ft and I was thinking, 'I'm only 5ft 4in, and you want to sit on my shoulders?' How bizarre.”
“God is best known in not knowing him.”
“If St. Andrews is the home of golf, I think Pebble Beach feels like the home of American golf, like the home of championship golf. It has a real sense of history here.”
“The nature of the world is inherently obvious, if you remain in a state of total psycho-physical oneness with whatever and all that presently arises.”
“Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on a smaller scale and lacks the advantage of having made enormous soft-money campaign contributions to political candidates.”
“I grew up watching films. Film has been part of my life since I was a child.”
“The Universe is a grand book which cannot be read until one first learns to comprehend the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics.”

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