When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.
From Malcolm Gladwell
If you're last in your class at Harvard, it doesn't feel like you're a good student, even though you really are. It's not smart for everyone to want to go to a great school.
If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!
I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.
I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.
A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
Countless religious innovators over the years have played the game of establishing an identity for themselves by accentuating their otherness.
When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to reduce economic anxiety and uncertainty.
The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.
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