The nature of athletic celebrity is increasingly moving away from the actual field of play.
Malcolm GladwellSix degrees of separation doesn't mean that everyone is linked to everyone else in just six steps. It means that a very small number of people are linked to everyone else in a few steps, and the rest of us are linked to the world through those special few.
Malcolm GladwellI don't think people are averse to thinking about things in a deep way, but we have limited time and opportunity to think about things in a deep way. I think that's why there is an appetite for non-fiction - it gives people the opportunity to reexamine ordinary experience and be smarter about it.
Malcolm GladwellWhen it's easy to make money, you have no incentive to think about development of talent.
Malcolm Gladwell