David And Goliath Malcolm Gladwell Quotes & Sayings

Self-deprecation is the appropriate response of any new convert, as he matches his stained soul against the purity of God. — Philip Zaleski

He claimed he had read the book so many times that the words had fallen out of it and the pages were all blank so he had to read the book to put the words back in or the book would be forlorn and naked. — Brian Doyle

A real lion hunt, is as much a mind game as it is a physical explosion of violence. — Sameh Elsayed

Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long. — Malcolm Gladwell

That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger. — Malcolm Gladwell

We are so lonely here, with only our loved ones for company. We kill, maim, insult our loved ones, or dream of doing so, to keep from going mad. And then disaster strikes. God, how we love disaster. — Jincy Willett

Israeli minister of defense Moshe Dayan - the architect of Israel's astonishing victory in the 1967 Six-Day War - also wrote an essay on the story of David and Goliath. According to Dayan, David fought Goliath not with inferior but (on the contrary) with superior weaponry; and his greatness consisted not in his being willing to go out into battle against someone far stronger than he was. But in his knowing how to exploit a weapon by which a feeble person could seize the advantage and become stronger. — Malcolm Gladwell

...Chief without soldiers is just a very lonely man in a big bloody field — Joe Abercrombie

David and Goliath is a book about what happens when ordinary people confront giants. — Malcolm Gladwell

Twenty years ago, I wrote a book called 'It Takes a Village.' And a lot of people looked at the title and asked, 'What the heck do you mean by that?' This is what I mean. None of us can raise a family, build a business, heal a community or lift a country totally alone. — Hillary Clinton

The wine sparkled in his eyes — Edgar Allan Poe

If I have sinned so much, if I have been since then so solitary, if my soul has taken such a swirling and solitary movement, if I have doubted everyting, if I have been fatalist and have been a pessimistic child who awaits death every day and who almost seeks it out, if I have opened myself slowly and late to happiness, and if I am still a somber man incapable of laughing wholeheartedly it is because you left me ... — Malcolm Gladwell

Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path. — Dalai Lama

The giant's name was Goliath. The shepherd boy's name was David. — Malcolm Gladwell

I think I'm actually in denial that I'm famous, it only sinks in when people crowd in the streets. My friends treat me like a regular person, which is what I wanted. — Emma Watson

If you want to pontificate, I'm certainly willing to pontificate. That's why Joely was laughing because you don't know what you asked for. Malcolm Gladwell, in his newest book "David and Goliath," writes about how sometimes things that we think of as handicaps often times are just the opposite. Or the reverse is also true. — Bruce Greenwood