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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 25ccd43 | Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and to be willing to challenge their own preconceptions. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 0a8ccb3 | The Hutterites (who came out of the same tradition as the Amish and the Mennonites) have a strict policy that every time a colony approaches 150, they split it in two and start a new one. "Keeping things under 150 just seems to be the best and most efficient way to manage a group of people," Spokane told me. "When things get larger than that, people become strangers to one another." The Hutterites, obviously, didn't get this idea from conte.. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| b470238 | The mistake we make in thinking of character as something unified and all-encompassing is very similar to a kind of blind spot in the way we process information. Psychologists call this tendency the Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE), which is a fancy way of saying that when it comes to interpreting other people's behavior, human beings invariably make the mistake of overestimating the importance of fundamental character traits and underes.. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| c50d048 | To make sense of social epidemics, we must first understand that human communication has its own set of very unusual and counterintuitive rules. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 910f10f | We have given teens more money, so they can construct their own social and material worlds more easily. We have given them more time to spend among themselves -- and less time in the company of adults. We have given them e-mail and beepers and, most of all, cellular phones, so that they can fill in all the dead spots in their day -- dead spots that might once have been filled with the voices of adults -- with the voices of their peers. That.. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| dac6c6b | When we see the giant, why do we automatically assume the battle is his for the winning? | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 9bc7078 | Owe no one anything except to love one another; | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 2a4244d | The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 5c0e486 | What must underlie successful epidemics, in the end, is a bedrock belief that change is possible, that people can radically transform their behavior or beliefs in the face of the right kind of impetus. This, too, contradicts some of the most ingrained assumptions we hold about ourselves and each other. We like to think of ourselves as autonomous and inner-directed, that who we are and how we act is something permanently set by our genes and.. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 6c8eacd | We have, I think, a very rigid and limited definition of what an advantage is. We think of things as helpful that actually aren't and think of other things as unhelpful that in reality leave us stronger and wiser. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 33af392 | All good parents understand these three principles implicitly. If you want to stop little Johnnie from hitting his sister, you can't look away one time and scream at him another. You can't treat his sister differently when she hits him. And if he says he really didn't hit his sister, you have to give him a chance to explain himself. How you punish is as important as the act of punishing itself. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| dd2ea8f | There are specific situations so powerful that they can overwhelm our inherent predispositions. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| e757829 | He had been told that in America, if you worked hard, anything was possible. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 029b311 | Hazel: Listen babe you have to search for your luck it's nice if it just falls in your lap but I look for my lucky pennies. ... Maggie: What do you do with all your pennies Hazel: I give them away. It's good to spread your luck around and it always comes back to you. | lucky-pennies | Fannie Flagg | |
| 22a784d | I found out I got ringworm from Felix. If it gets in my head, they will have to shave off my hair. I'll be bald just like Eisenhower, and I am a Democrat. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 07331b5 | In 1945, when the male soldiers started coming back home from Europe, she and all the other women pilots that had served as WASPs during the war were unceremoniously told to go home and never received a dime or even thanks from the government. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| bcae8e7 | Claude Pistal is a creep! He is lucky I'm reasonably mild-mannered like Clark Kent. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| fb838cd | Rejoice for a comrade deceased, Our loss is his infinite gain, A soul out of prison released, And free from its bodily chain." ~Smokey Lonesome" | Fannie Flagg | ||
| d97064f | Whom the heart first loves does not know or care if they are related by blood. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| f94bae5 | Later on, still looking, she had tried to get involved with the Women's Community Center. She liked what they stood for but secretly wished they would wear just a little lipstick and shave their legs. She had been the only one in the room in full makeup, wearing pantyhose and earrings. She had wanted to belong, but when the woman suggested that next week they bring a mirror so they could all study their vaginas, she never went back. | females feminists women | Fannie Flagg | |
| 7d8981a | Like I say, it just creeps up on you. One day you're young and the next day your bosoms and your chin drops and you're wearing a rubber girdle. But you don't know you're old. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 951d41a | And her dumplings were so light they would float in the air and you'd have to catch 'em to eat 'em. | jest sarcasm sipsey soul-food | Fannie Flagg | |
| 4b37a49 | To Toot One's Own Horn Is Unattractive. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 2aee5c8 | I'm too young to be old and too old to be young. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 0986f07 | If there is such a thing as complete happiness, it is knowing that you are in the right place. | home | Fannie Flagg | |
| ff897eb | she had learned that being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 1c7fe1f | Trust Jess to get engaged all discreetly and not say a word. I'd have run straight in, saying, "Guess what? Look at my pebble ring!" | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 03ee291 | What if our children are all super-bright and I can't understand what they're saying and they look down on me because I haven't got a PhD? | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| c982b9d | Spoiled?" Mum cuts her off with a laugh. "Nonsense! There's nothing wrong with Minnie, is there, my precious? She knows her own mind!" She strokes Minnie's hair fondly, then looks up again. "Becky, love, you were exactly the same at her age. Exactly the same." | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| e05bf88 | Love. This is a lorry, not a Ferrari. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| f68cce4 | In honor of my goddaughter's christening, I will perform 'The Real Slim Shady,' by Eminem," he says confidently." | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 559d926 | My parents watch too many soap operas, that's their trouble. In fact, they were probably I was pregnant. By my wicked married lover whom they could then murder and bury under the patio. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| fa7df4f | I know friends should be supportive of each other's life decisions and all that. | friendships life supportive | Sophie Kinsella | |
| 49e2e15 | When he was EIGHT. Anne, do you know what teenage parties are like? What if they knife each other and have sex on the trampoline? | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| d407f04 | I hesitate a moment. Wearing his dressing gown seems a bit cutesy. A bit Let me put on your great big manly shirt and allow the sleeves to flap endearingly around my fingers. But I have no choice. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| ac32c29 | But there's no point. He's busy with his life - and I'm busy with mine. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| f6aad3d | He even said you once threw al your husband's clothes onto the street and invited the neighbors to help themselves!" says Ellen with a bright laugh. "He's got such an imagination!" My face flames. Damn. I thought he was asleep when I did that." | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 7c06a6c | The first story is all about the president washing his piano. At least I'm pretty sure that's what presidente and lavoro pieno must mean | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 6e20179 | And then suddenly I hear his footsteps approaching. He's behind me, thirty feet away, at a guess. No wonder I couldn't see him. I should turn. Right now I should turn. This is the moment that it would be natural to swivel round and greet him. Call out a hello; wave my phone in the air. But my feet are rooted to the spot. I can't bring myself to move. Because as soon as I do, it will be time to be polite and matter-of-fact and back to normal.. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 56b258b | As I stare at it,I can feel little invisible strings,silently tugging me toward it. I have to touch it. I have to wear it. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. | feelings invisible shopping strings tugging | Sophie Kinsella | |
| 71869be | Except that stopping mid-sentence is the worst thing people can do. It's, like, totally passive aggressive, because you can't take issue with anything they've said. You have to take issue with what you think they were going to say. | passive-aggresive | Sophie Kinsella | |
| 226849e | Becky, if I had to wait five years, then I would. Or eight -- or even ten." He pauses, and there's complete silence except for a tiny gust of wind, blowing confetti about the churchyard. "But I hope that one day -- preferably rather sooner than that -- you'll do me the honor of marrying me?" | engagement love wedding | Sophie Kinsella | |
| 99c38c2 | People drive by in their colorful convertibles with the roof down, looking all relaxed and friendly, as if you might stroll up to them while they're pausing at the light and start a conversation. It's the opposite of Britain, where everyone's in their own self-contained metal box, swearing at the rain. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| d04d6c1 | Which is just grief, I guess. I've decided that grief is like a newborn baby. It knocks you for six. It takes over your brain with its incessant cry. It stops you sleeping or eating or functioning, and everyone says, "Hang in there, it gets easier." What they don't say is, "Two years on, you'll think it's got easier, but then, out of the blue, you'll hear a certain tune in the supermarket and start sobbing." | Sophie Kinsella |