“Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.” Quote by Malcolm Gladwell
“Writing is something I took up rather than anything I had an inclination toward. I like acting -delivering someone else's message - but writing is more of an accomplishment.” WritingActingMessagesAccomplishmentInclinationDelivering Author:Steve Martin
“The instability in the region is not a result of Israel and the Palestinians. That was never the cause of this instability. Instead, the disfunctionality of many of these societies that have failed to modernize.” CausesResultsIsraelRegionsPalestinianInstability Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. If you let the test run for 15 minutes, the Japanese kids will not have given up. You have to take it away.” IfsGivingYearsHardProblemRunningKidsGivenGroupsMinutesGiving UpTestsMathSecondsGiven UpMath Problems Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“I know it sounds hard to believe, but habits laid down by our ancestors persist even after the conditions that created those habits have gone away.” KnowsBelieveHardSoundGoneConditionsHabitAncestorPersistHard To BelieveGone Away Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“Instead of thinking about talent as something that you acquire, talent should be thought of as something that you develop.” ThinkingShouldTalentAcquire Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“You can make peace with an enemy, if the enemy abandons the idea of destroying you. That is the critical test. Democracies fail to understand what I just said.” IfsIdeasEnemyDemocracyFailingTestsCriticalAbandonDestroyingMaking PeaceDestroying You Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“When it's easy to make money, you have no incentive to think about development of talent.” ThinkingEasyTalentDevelopmentMaking MoneyIncentives Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“There is a structural difference between the way that Europe views Israel, and America views Israel. The European view is informed by the importance of colonialism in Europe's past. So for Europeans we are like Belgiums in the Congo, or the French in Alger, or the British in India. Strange interlopers in somebody else's land. But in fact, we [Israeli] have been here for 4,000 years. This is our ancestral homeland.” WayYearsHas BeensFactsAmericaPastDifferencesViewsLandStrangeEuropeIndiaImportanceIsraelBritishColonialismIsraeliHomelandCongo Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“I have totally hitched my wagon to the horse of storytelling, and the idea that none of us know why we're born, or why we're gonna die, or what we're planted here, or what's on the other side of the galaxy, or when time began, or when time end. The whole nature of reality is pretty up for grabs, really.” KnowsIdeasEndsWholeRealityDiesSidesBornHorseStorytellingGalaxyWagons Author:Ethan Hawke
“I believe in the healing restorative power of art and communication. And so that's probably my rule. But that doesn't apply to bedtimes. And stuff like that.” BelieveArtI BelieveStuffHealingCommunicationI Believe InBedtime Author:Ethan Hawke