Malcolm Jenner Quotes

He simply preferred the sensation of soil beneath his feet and wind in his hair, of fresh, non-recycled air which carried on it the scent and taste of life. He preferred what was solid and real, where if you could see it you could touch it, feel its texture between the tips of your fingers. As far as he knew, no one had ever touched a star. Not even her. ~ G.S. Jennsen

History and experience ought to teach us to be suspicious of Goliaths, because the very thing that makes the giant so terrifying is also the source of his weakness. David understood that, as he sized up his opponent long ago in the Valley of Elah. And in a different time and in a very different age, ~ Malcolm Gladwell

Sometimes I think my own brain might be a bitch whose sole purpose is to make me feel shitty. To quote Malcolm from Malcolm in the Middle, "Why won't my brain let me be happy? ~ L. H. Cosway

In Steiger's case, of course, his high connectedness is a function of his versatility as an actor and, in all likelihood, some degree of good luck. But in the case of Connectors, their ability to span many different worlds is a function of something intrinsic to their personality, some combination of curiosity, self-confidence, sociability, and energy. ~ Malcolm Gladwell

I am like a decapitated pine. Pine trees do not regenerate their tops. They stay twisted, crippled.They grow in thickness, perhaps, and that is what I am doing. ~ Malcolm Gladwell

I've realized through the years that I just find happiness in other things, whether it's my dogs or my friends or, like, looking at the sunset. So if I were to wish for something else, it would just to be happy all the time, to have a superpower of not letting things affect me, and to be true to who I am, always. ~ Kylie Jenner

The world we could have is so much richer than the world we have settled for. ~ Malcolm Gladwell

Innovation-the heart of the knowledge economy-is fundamentally social. ~ Malcolm Gladwell

My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that. ~ Malcolm Gladwell

Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything from juvenile delinquency to premature senility. ~ Malcolm Muggeridge

Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches. ~ Malcolm Boyd

I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But they are very well-meaning, actually. I've done a couple of Star Trek conventions, and they've only been really welcoming. ~ Malcolm McDowell

Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms. ~ Malcolm X

Everyone in the valleys knew me and because of that, so many people used my name in the valleys that there must have been at least a hundred times a night that the name 'Malcolm Price' was used. ~ Stephen Richards

Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention. ~ Malcolm Fraser

If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing. ~ Malcolm Gladwell

But this same dilemma comes up again and again in our own lives, and often we don't choose so wisely. The inverted-U curve reminds us that there is a point at which money and resources stop making our lives better and start making them worse. ~ Malcolm Gladwell

As human beings, we always expect everyday change to happen slowly and steadily, and for there to be some relationship between cause and effect. ~ Malcolm Gladwell

What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of those who handle its children? ~ Malcolm Gladwell

You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor. ~ Malcolm X

Dicing with death is one man's cup of tea, but another man's poison. I just didn't fear anything. ~ Stephen Richards

The dream was ennobling but doomed. It was Malcolm's curse to see this before the most of the rest of us; it was the beginning of his sainthood that when black Americans reached that point--when they arrived, that is to say, at their blackness--Malcolm was already there. ~ Peter Goldman

I've had guns pointed at me, and I can tell you that it's not the right place to be standing if some is really mad at you! ~ Stephen Richards

Everything happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. - Malcolm Muggeridge1 ~ J. Scott McElroy

Obsession is just a variety of addiction ~ Ian Malcolm ~ Michael Crichton

Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them. ~ Malcolm Gladwell

Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation ~ Malcolm Gladwell

Why is the fact that each of us comes from a culture with its own distinctive mix of strengths and weaknesses, tendencies and predispositions, so difficult to acknowledge? Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from - and when we ignore that fact, planes crash. ~ Malcolm Gladwell

How good people's decisions are under the fast-moving, high-stress conditions of rapid cognition is a function of training and rules and rehearsal. ~ Malcolm Gladwell

The answer is that we are not helpless in the face of our first impressions. They may bubble up from the unconscious - from behind a locked door inside of our brain - but just because something is outside of awareness doesn't mean it's outside of control. ~ Malcolm Gladwell

It's like someone cutting up a loved one in front of you, all the time insisting they've got your best interests at heart. They're very devious nowadays. ~ Malcolm Wilson

To be honest with you, being Bruce isn't easy. ~ Bruce Jenner

I am not gay. I am, as far as I know, heterosexual. I've never been with a guy. ~ Bruce Jenner

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. ~ Malcolm Forbes Jr.