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Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Our power of thin-slicing and snap judgment are extraordinary.but even the giant computer in our unconscious need a moment to do its work. -- Malcolm Gladwell
If we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition -- Malcolm Gladwell
Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions ... by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions. -- Malcolm Gladwell
There is a concept in cognitive psychology called the channel capacity, which refers to the amount of space in our brain for certain kinds of information. -- Malcolm Gladwell
If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money. -- Malcolm Gladwell
[ ... ] the sense of entitlement [ ... ] is an attitude perfectly suited to succeeding in the modern world -- Malcolm Gladwell
Our acquaintances - not our friends - are our greatest source of new ideas and information. the internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency. -- Malcolm Gladwell
It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Because there is complexity, autonomy, and a relationship between effort and reward in doing creative work, -- Malcolm Gladwell
The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.(p.115) -- Malcolm Gladwell
I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Occasions when you can change your mind should be cherished, because they mean you're smarter than you were before. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Change your mind about something significant every day. -- Malcolm Gladwell
In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours. -- Malcolm Gladwell
There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice. -- Malcolm Gladwell
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. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Mediocre people find their way into positions of authority ... because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are a good deal less rational than we think. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The first is that much of what we consider valuable in our world arises out of these kinds of lopsided conflicts, because the act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty. And second, that we consistently get these kinds of conflicts wrong. -- Malcolm Gladwell
He was maxed out. He had no
resources left to do anything else. That's what happens
when you're tired. Your decision-making skills erode. You
start missing things - things that you would pick up on
any other day. -- Malcolm Gladwell
paesani of Roseto worked in the marble quarries in the surrounding hills, or cultivated the fields in the terraced valley below, walking four and five miles down -- Malcolm Gladwell
I recently talked to an eighteen-year-old - a huge FIFA fan - and realized that he spends more time playing the FIFA video game than he does watching actual FIFA games. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Incompetence annoys me. Overconfidence terrifies me. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Away from or classed differently from a main or related body 2: a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample 1. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Broken Windows theory and the Power of Context are one and the same. They are both based on the premise that an epidemic can be reversed, can be tipped, by tinkering with the smallest details of the immediate environment. This -- Malcolm Gladwell
As it may be - matters. How you feel about your abilities - your academic "self-concept" - in the context of your classroom shapes your willingness to tackle challenges and finish difficult tasks. It's a crucial element in your motivation and confidence. -- Malcolm Gladwell
That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first. -- Malcolm Gladwell
What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer. And those are quite separate domains of achievement. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Anyone who has ever scanned the bookshelves of a new girlfriend or boyfriend- or peeked inside his or her medicine cabinet- understands this implicitly; you can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Our unconscious reactions come out of a locked room, and we can't look inside that room. but with experience we become expert at using our behavior and our training to interpret - and decode - what lies behind our snap judgment and first impressions. -- Malcolm Gladwell
It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient you are the more valuable you'll be. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head. -- Malcolm Gladwell
For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Gosh darn it," Gau said, "if you don't try, you'll never succeed." 10. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I think when one's working, one works between absolute confidence and absolute doubt, and I got a huge dallop of each. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Any fool can spend money. But to earn it and save it and defer gratification - then you learn to value it differently. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The name given to that one dramatic moment in an epidemic when everything can change all at once is the Tipping Point. -- Malcolm Gladwell
To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting. -- Malcolm Gladwell
In a country that never wins anything: in Canada, if one of our athletes so much as makes the final in a World Championship, we declare a national holiday. -- Malcolm Gladwell
You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world. -- Malcolm Gladwell
It's the rich who get the biggest tax breaks. It's the best students who get the best teaching and most attention. And -- Malcolm Gladwell
I think overall it's a disadvantage," Jeb Bush once said of what it meant for his business career that he was the son of an American president and the brother of an American president and the grandson of a wealthy Wall Street banker and US senator. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Whenever we have something that we are good at
something we care about
that experience and passion fundamentally change the nature of our first impressions. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I have a new way of doing things, and I don't care if you think I'm crazy. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The power of positive thinking will overcome so many things -- Malcolm Gladwell
We form our impression not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally, by comparing ourselves to people in the same boat as ourselves. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Farkas's Jewish family trees go on for pages, each virtually identical to the one before, until the conclusion becomes inescapable: Jewish doctors and lawyers did not become professionals in spite of their humble origins. They became professionals because of their humble origins. -- Malcolm Gladwell
the miracle of meaningful work. -- 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
In cross-country skiing, athletes propel themselves over distances of ten and twenty miles - a physical challenge that places intense demands on the ability of their red blood cells to deliver oxygen to their muscles. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The three rules of the Tipping Point - the Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor, the Power of Context - offer a way of making sense of epidemics. They provide us with direction for how to go about reaching a Tipping Point. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The poorer children were, to her mind, often better behaved, less whiny, more creative in making use of their own time, and have a well-developed sense of independence. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Being able to act intelligently and instinctively in the moment is possible only after a long and rigorous of education and experience -- Malcolm Gladwell
Education lays the foundation of a large portion of the causes of mental disorder -- Malcolm Gladwell
Poor parents tend to follow[ ... ] a strategy of "accomplishment of natural growth". -- Malcolm Gladwell
If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me. -- Malcolm Gladwell
A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading. -- Malcolm Gladwell
At three and four and five, children may not be able to follow complicated plots and subplots. But the narrative form, psychologists now believe, is absolutely central to them. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good. -- Malcolm Gladwell
People in great institutions are occasionally credulous. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Don't get me wrong. I love my mother-in-law. It's her daughter I can't figure out. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Because the people and countries who are wealthy enough to pay for things like really small classes have a hard time understanding that the things their wealth can buy might not always make them better off. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I think actually the marketing community is approaching a crisis: There are just too many messages competing for too little attention. That is the fundamental problem. -- Malcolm Gladwell
It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Gifted children and child prodigies seem most likely to emerge in highly supportive family conditions.In contrast, geniuses have a perverse tendency of growing up in more adverse conditions. -- Malcolm Gladwell
What is learned out of necessity is inevitably more powerful than the learning that comes easily. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Understanding the power of the underdog requires an effort. It requires standing up to conventional wisdom. -- Malcolm Gladwell
If a revolution is not accessible, tangible, and replicable, how on earth can it be a revolution? -- Malcolm Gladwell
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. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Some of us, after all, are very good at expressing emotions and feelings, which means that we are far more emotionally contagious than the rest of us. Psychologists call these people "senders. -- Malcolm Gladwell
To make sense of social epidemics, we must first understand that human communication has its own set of very unusual and counterintuitive rules. -- Malcolm Gladwell
It takes only the smallest of changes to shatter an epidemic's equilibrium. -- Malcolm Gladwell
You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.' -- Malcolm Gladwell
It's challenging, it's not hopeless. You have to come up with something. You have to figure out a way to help them, because people must have hope to live. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Clear writing is universal. People talk about writing down to an audience or writing up to an audience; I think that's nonsense. If you write in a way that is clear, transparent, and elegant, it will reach everyone. -- 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
David and Goliath is a book about what happens when ordinary people confront giants. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The giant's name was Goliath. The shepherd boy's name was David. -- Malcolm Gladwell
A runner needs not just to be skinny but - more specifically - to have skinny calves and ankles, because every extra pound carried on your extremities costs more than a pound carried on your torso. That's why shaving even a few ounces off a pair of running shoes can have a significant effect. -- Malcolm Gladwell
We sometimes think of being good at mathematics as an innate ability. You either have "it" or you don't. But to Schoenfeld, it's not so much ability as attitude. You master mathematics if you are willing to try. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk. -- Malcolm Gladwell
There is a place for hyperbole and I believe it's the back jacket of books -- Malcolm Gladwell
The Four Horsemen: defensiveness, stonewalling, criticism, and contempt. -- Malcolm Gladwell
That the best students from mediocre schools were almost always a better bet than good students from the very best schools. -- Malcolm Gladwell
There are specific situations so powerful that they can overwhelm our inherent predispositions. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Re-reading is much underrated. I've read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold once every five years since I was 15. I only started to understand it the third time. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Without the New York Times, there is no blog community. They'd have nothing to blog about. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Capitalization learning: we get good at something by building on the strengths that we are naturally given. -- Malcolm Gladwell
All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The real me isn't the person I describe, no the real me is the me revealed by my actions. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The sad thing about doping is how much it obscures our appreciation of greatness. -- Malcolm Gladwell
You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly people who want to help others optimize their physical and psychological health, and then have them run a claims-processing operation for insurance companies. -- Malcolm Gladwell
There's this powerful phrase in the legal world, "Difficult cases make bad law." The exception is the difficult case. You can't generalize them by definition. So although they are fascinating, they don't solve any problem because they're so one of a kind. -- Malcolm Gladwell
There is more going on beneath the surface than we think, and more going on in little, finite moments of time than we would guess. -- Malcolm Gladwell
If there is one thing I learned by reading Epstein's "The Sports Gene" it is that world-class athletes are, by definition, abnormal: that is, the kind of person capable of competing at that level is necessarily very different from the rest of us physiologically. They are outliers. -- Malcolm Gladwell
So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field. -- Malcolm Gladwell
In my mid-adolescence, my friend Terry Martin and I became obsessed with William F. Buckley. This makes more sense when you realize that we were living in Bible Belt farming country miles from civilization. Buckley seemed impossibly exotic. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Sesame Street succeeded because it learned how to make television sticky. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Owe no one anything except to love one another; -- Malcolm Gladwell
Gottman has proven something remarkable. If he analyzes an hour of a husband and wife talking, he can predict with 95 percent accuracy whether that couple will still be married fifteen years later. If he watches a couple for fifteen minutes, his success rate is around 90 percent. -- Malcolm Gladwell
We all assume that if you're weak and poor, you're never going to win. In fact, the real world is full of examples where the exact opposite happens, where the weak win and the strong screw up. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The Law of the Few, ... says that one critical factor in epidemics is the nature of the messenger. -- Malcolm Gladwell
In epidemics, the messenger matters: messengers are what make something spread. But the content of the message matters too. And the specific quality that a message needs to be successful is the quality of stickiness. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I suspect people who are indecisive are people who are far too enamored of analysis in all settings and are destroying their ability to make an instinctive judgment through over-analysis
and that's dangerous. -- Malcolm Gladwell
If we want to, say, develop schools in disadvantaged communities that can successfully counteract the poisonous atmosphere of their surrounding neighborhoods, this tells us that we're probably better off building lots of little schools than one or two big ones. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I'm someone who can provide an intellectual framework, but I can't tell people who are trying to sell Product X how to do that because I don't know, and I would be faking it if I attempted to step into that role. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and more importantly, whether you ought to use bombs at all. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Of course, kids don't always like repetition. Whatever they are watching has to be complex enough to allow, upon repeated exposure, for deeper and deeper levels of comprehension. At the same time, it can't be so complex that the first time around it baffles the children and turns them off. -- Malcolm Gladwell
If you play an audiotape of a yawn to blind people, they'll yawn too. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The principle elements of a puzzle all require the application of energy and persistence, which are the virtues of youth. Mysteries demand experience and insight. -- Malcolm Gladwell
You walk into the class in second grade. You can't read. What are you going to do if you're going to make it? You identify the smart kid. You make friends with him. You sit next to him. You grow a team around you. You delegate your work to others. You learn how to talk your way out of a tight spot. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The lesson of the Impressionists is that there are times and places where it is better to be a Big Fish in a Little Pond than a Little Fish in a Big Pond, where the apparent disadvantage of being an outsider in a marginal world turns out not to be a disadvantage at all. -- Malcolm Gladwell
professionally and -- Malcolm Gladwell
I don't want a door bell. I don't want anyone ringing my door bell ... seems to be intrusive. They can call me on their cell phones. -- Malcolm Gladwell
For every remote miss who becomes stronger, there are countless near misses who are crushed by what they have been through. There are times and places, however, when all of us depend on people who have been hardened by their experiences. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Are in perceptions of the taste and quality of the -- Malcolm Gladwell
Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation -- Malcolm Gladwell
any attempt to downplay or sugarcoat the meaning of what is being said. We mitigate when we're being polite, or when we're ashamed or embarrassed, or when we're being deferential to authority. If you want your boss to do you a favor, you -- Malcolm Gladwell
If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments. -- Malcolm Gladwell
we put the stories of hockey players and the Beatles and -- Malcolm Gladwell
To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success
the fortunate birth dates and the happy accidents of history
with a society that provides opportunities for all. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Policy is driven by more than politics, however. It is equally driven by ideas. -- Malcolm Gladwell
We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken. -- Malcolm Gladwell
If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The most advanced computer science programs in the world, and over the course of the Computer Center's life, thousands of students passed -- Malcolm Gladwell
High-tech companies like Google or Microsoft carefully measure the cognitive abilities of prospective employees out of the same belief: they are convinced that those at the very top of the IQ scale have the greatest potential. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Having a parent incarcerated increases a child's chances of juvenile delinquency between 300 and 400 percent; it increases the odds of a serious psychiatric disorder by 250 percent. -- Malcolm Gladwell
They believed that it was a mistake to separate product development from marketing, as most of their contemporaries did, because to them the two were indistinguishable: the object that sold best was the one that sold itself. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The Stickiness Factor says that there are specific ways of making a contagious message memorable; there are relatively simple changes in the presentation and structuring of information that can make a big difference in how much of an impact it makes. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Next time you meet a doctor, and you sit down in his office and he starts to talk, if you have the sense that he isn't listening to you, that he's talking down to you, and that he isn't treating you with respect, listen to that feeling. You have thin-sliced him and found him wanting. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Gottman has found, in fact, that the presence of contempt in a marriage can even predict such things as how many colds a husband or a wife gets; in other words, having someone you love express contempt toward you is so stressful that it begins to affect the functioning of your immune system. -- Malcolm Gladwell
If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more open to the idea that you can be Ben Fountain and publish your great book at forty-nine. -- Malcolm Gladwell
There is more courage and heroism in defying the human impulse, in taking the purposeful and painful steps to prepare for the unimaginable. -- Malcolm Gladwell
In the past generation, the American educational system has decided not to seek the very best teachers, give them lots of kids to teach, and pay them more - which would help children the most. It has decided to hire every teacher it can get its hands on and pay them less. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs. -- Malcolm Gladwell
In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does world-class neurosurgery. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Minor, seemingly insignificant quality-of-life crimes, they said, were Tipping Points for violent crime. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Grinnell College MIT McGill University Georgia Institute of Technology -- Malcolm Gladwell
The world is not a meritocracy, as much as we may like to pretend that it is. And we have a long way to go before we really reward people based on their own merit. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Before the Memorial Cup final, Gord Wasden - the father of one of the Medicine Hat Tigers - stood -- Malcolm Gladwell
Hey, say you are looking at a chess board. Is there anything you can't see? No. But are you guaranteed to win? Not at all, because you can't see what the other guy is thinking. -- Malcolm Gladwell
It has been said that most revolutions are not caused by revolutionaries in the first place, but by the stupidity and brutality of governments, -- Malcolm Gladwell
There is complexity, autonomy, and a relationship between effort and reward in doing creative work, and that's worth more to most of us than money. -- Malcolm Gladwell
That was it! The whole Redwood City philosophy was based on a willingness to try harder than anyone else. -- Malcolm Gladwell
If your parents are billionaires, that might actually be an obstacle to your own happiness and self-development. If you go to Oxford or Harvard, that might actually thwart your desire to graduate with a science or math degree. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Off to the side were dozens of keypunch machines - what passed in those days for computer terminals. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Greenberg wanted to give his pilots an alternate identity. Their problem was that they were trapped in roles dictated by the heavy weight of their country's cultural legacy. They needed an opportunity to step outside those roles ... and language was the key to that transformation. -- Malcolm Gladwell
What track needs to figure out: how to engage us between the races. Instead, the entire off-the-track conversation is about doping. This is how you kill a sport. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Dis am life; some go up and some go down. -- 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
What Wolf began to realize was that -- Malcolm Gladwell
We are trained to think that what goes into any transaction or relationship or system must be directly related, in intensity and dimension, to what comes out. -- Malcolm Gladwell
An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Anyone who knows the marketing world knows that ideas come and go, and people latch onto things and think of them as a kind of solution ... -- Malcolm Gladwell
year-round. When -- Malcolm Gladwell
Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness. -- Malcolm Gladwell
When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability. -- Malcolm Gladwell
If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior ... you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Extraordinary achievement is less about talent than it is about opportunity. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I grew up in southwestern Ontario in the heart of a Mennonite community. All my family are part of the Mennonite church. -- Malcolm Gladwell
You can't concentrate on doing anything if you are thinking, What's gonna happen if it doesn't go right? -- Malcolm Gladwell
There is something profoundly wrong with the way we make sense of success. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Track is full of the absolute nicest and most polite athletes in all of sports, and where does it get us? -- Malcolm Gladwell
There are five known fundamental tastes in the human palate: salty, sweet, sour, bitter, and umami. -- Malcolm Gladwell
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It is not possible to staff a large company without short people. There simply aren't enough tall people to go around. -- Malcolm Gladwell
It is useful to compare the Branch Davidians with the Mormons of the mid-nineteenth century. The Mormons were vilified in those years in large part because Joseph Smith believed in polygamy. -- Malcolm Gladwell
There's no idea that can't be explained to a thoughtful 14-year-old. If the thoughtful 14-year-old doesn't get it, it is your fault, not the 14-year-old's. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Landowner of those parts. An archway to one side leads to a church, the Madonna del Carmine - Our Lady of Mount Carmine. Narrow stone steps run up the hillside, flanked by closely clustered two-story stone houses with red-tile roofs. For centuries, the paesani of Roseto -- Malcolm Gladwell
The world we could have is so much richer than the world we have settled for. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The tallest oak in the forest is the tallest not just because it grew from the hardiest acorn; it is the tallest also because no other trees blocked its sunlight, the soil around it was deep and rich, no rabbit chewed through its bark as a sapling, and no lumberjack cut it down before it matured. We -- Malcolm Gladwell
There are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can offer a much better means of making sense of the world. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The striking thing about Ericsson's study is that he and his colleagues couldn't find any "naturals," musicians who floated effortlessly to the top while practicing a fraction of the time -- Malcolm Gladwell
Our notion that it is the best and the brightest who effortlessly rise to the top is much too simplistic. -- Malcolm Gladwell
A Maven is someone who wants to solve other people's problems, generally by solving his own," Alpert said, which is true, although what I suspect is that the opposite is also true, that a Maven is someone who solves his own problems - his own emotional needs - by solving other people's problems. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors. -- Malcolm Gladwell
His becoming a true outlier, we have to know a lot more about him than that. -- Malcolm Gladwell
It is easier and far more satisfying to retreat and compose yourself after every score - and execute perfectly choreographed plays - than to swarm about, arms flailing, and contest every inch of the basketball court. Underdog strategies -- Malcolm Gladwell
Testers for 7-Up consistently found consumers would report more lemon flavor in their product if they added 15% more yellow coloring TO THE PACKAGE. -- Malcolm Gladwell
But MacCurdy's idea about near and remote misses suggests something quite different - that courage is in some sense acquired. -- Malcolm Gladwell
When you remove time," de becker says, "you are subject to the lowest-quality intuitive reaction -- 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
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. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Why are man hole covers around? If you don't knwo the answer to the questions, you're not smart enough to work at microsoft -- Malcolm Gladwell
What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Age-class running, as you know, is completely unreliable. It's based on this artificial thing, which is that people who are the same age have the same level of physical maturity. Which just isn't true. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Nobody accomplishes success by themselves. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Emotion goes inside-out. Emotional contagion, though, suggests that the opposite is also true. If I can make you smile, I can make you happy. If I can make you frown, I can make you sad. Emotion, in this sense, goes outside-in. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I don't golf. I've never golfed. I will never golf. -- 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
University of Oklahoma. He spent his summers on a farm in Pennsylvania, not far from Roseto - although that, of course, didn't mean much, since Roseto -- Malcolm Gladwell
It's just strange to think that so much of our enjoyment from sports comes from the elevation of arbitrary differences. -- Malcolm Gladwell
When the law is applied in the absence of legitimacy, it does not produce obedience. It produces the opposite. It leads to backlash. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Roseto Valfortore lies one hundred miles southeast of Rome in the Apennine foothills -- Malcolm Gladwell
Write down as many different uses that you can think of for the following objects: a brick a blanket This is an example of what's called a divergence test -- Malcolm Gladwell
We tell ourselves that skill is the precious resource and effort is the commodity. It's the other way around. Effort can trump ability-relentl ess effort is in fact something rarer than the ability to engage in some finely tuned act of motor coordination. -- 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
The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert - in anything, writes the neurologist Daniel Levitin. -- Malcolm Gladwell
We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Self-consciousness is the enemy of interestingness. -- Malcolm Gladwell
We talk a lot here about grit and self-control. The kids know what those words mean -- Malcolm Gladwell
I remember as a kid watching one of the Olympic games, and I was cheering for a big track athlete. He was the favorite to win, and he lost. I realized in that moment the pain he felt was so much greater than the pain that those who never thought they were going to win would have felt had they lost. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Just as Tom Gau could, through the persuasive force of his personality, serve as a Tipping Point in a word-of-mouth epidemic, the people who die in highly publicized suicides-whose deaths give others "permission" to die-serve as the Tipping Points in suicide epidemics. -- Malcolm Gladwell
From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate. -- Malcolm Gladwell
If you think about the class-size puzzle this way, then what seems baffling starts to make a little more sense. -- Malcolm Gladwell
When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Schools work. The only problem with school, for the kids who aren't achieving, is that there isn't enough of it. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent. -- Malcolm Gladwell
There were history's gifts to my family-and if the resources of that grocer, the fruits of those riots, the possibilities of that culture, and the privileges of that skin tone had been extended to others, how many more would now live a life of fulfillment, in a beautiful house high on a hill? -- Malcolm Gladwell
Popeils had been doing for most of the century, and what all the experts said couldn't be done in the modern economy. He dreamed up something new in his kitchen and went out and pitched it himself. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Knowledge of a boy's IQ is of little help if you are faced with a formful of clever boys. -- Malcolm Gladwell
A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention. -- Malcolm Gladwell
To a worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish. -- Malcolm Gladwell
There is a simple way to package information that, under the right circumstances, can make it irresistible. All you have to do is find it. -- Malcolm Gladwell
For younger kids, repetition is really valuable. They demand it. When they see a show over and over again, they not only are understanding it better, which is a form of power, but just by predicting what is going to happen, I think they feel a real sense of affirmation and self-worth. -- Malcolm Gladwell
An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts. -- Malcolm Gladwell
It is the new and different that is always most vulnerable to market research. -- Malcolm Gladwell
When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake. -- Malcolm Gladwell
But sometimes genius is anything but rarefied; sometimes it's just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen. (p313) -- 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
We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall. -- Malcolm Gladwell
We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Six 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 Gladwell
Garment trade. Neighboring Bangor was largely Welsh and English, and the next town over was overwhelmingly German, which meant - given the fractious relationships between the English and Germans and -- Malcolm Gladwell
We should be firing bad teachers. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Much of what we consider valuable in our world arises out of (these) one-sided conflicts. Because the act of facing overwhelming odds, produces greatness and beauty. -- Malcolm Gladwell
You master mathematics if you are willing to try. That's what Schoenfeld attempts to teach his students. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The simplest way that respect is communicated is through tone of voice, -- Malcolm Gladwell
But in the end it comes down to a matter of respect, and the simplest way that respect is communicated is through tone of voice, and the most corsive tone of voice that a doctor can assume is a dominant tone. -- Malcolm Gladwell
If we want groups to serve as incubators for contagious messages, then ... we have to keep groups below the 150 Tipping Point. Above that point, there begin to be structural impediments to the ability of the group to agree and act with one voice. -- Malcolm Gladwell
If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151) -- Malcolm Gladwell
General intelligence and practical intelligence are "orthogonal": the presence of one doesn't imply the presence of the other. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Extreme visual clarity, tunnel vision, diminished sound, and the sense that time is slowing down. this is how the human body reacts to extreme stress. -- Malcolm Gladwell
My social circle is, in reality, not a circle. It is a pyramid. And at the top of the pyramid is a single person - Jacob - who is responsible for an overwhelming majority of the relationships that constitute my life. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts. -- Malcolm Gladwell
We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail. -- Malcolm Gladwell
He watched David approach, first with scorn, then with surprise, and then with what can only have been horror - as it dawned on him that the battle he was expecting had suddenly changed shape. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from. -- Malcolm Gladwell
If you're skinny and you can't play hockey in Canada, you aren't left with a lot of options. I was left with running. -- Malcolm Gladwell
though? Not something expensive or impossible to find; not something encoded in DNA or hardwired into the circuits of their brains. They lacked something that could have been given to them if we'd only known they needed it: a community around them that prepared them properly -- Malcolm Gladwell
[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I'm convinced that ideas and behaviors and new products move through a population very much like a disease does. -- Malcolm Gladwell
People are experience-rich and theory-poor. -- Malcolm Gladwell
If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The goal of storytelling should be to make stories as ubiquitous as music. -- Malcolm Gladwell
leads to a church, the Madonna del Carmine - Our Lady of Mount Carmine. Narrow stone steps run -- Malcolm Gladwell
Some pretend to be rich, yet have nothing; others pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth. -- Malcolm Gladwell
My father read Charles Dickens to us as children, and at the end of virtually every novel he would choke up and start to cry - and my father NEVER cried. It always made me love him all the more. -- Malcolm Gladwell
We are approaching levels - if we're not beyond levels - of threshold for the number of messages that consumers can take in in a given day. There is a kind of hunger for some kind of new approach to getting the word out about something. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Innovation-the heart of the knowledge economy-is fundamentally social. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Everything that can be tested must be tested, -- Malcolm Gladwell
Historians start with Cleopatra and the pharaohs and comb through every year in human history ever since, looking in every corner of the world for evidence of extraordinary wealth, and almost 20 percent of the names they end up with come from a single generation in a single country. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The point about Connectors is that by having a foot in so many different worlds, they have the effect of bringing them all together. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking. -- Malcolm Gladwell
But is the commercial theory of learning true? Daniel Anderson says that new research suggests that children actually don't like commercials as much as we thought they did because commercials don't tell stories, and stories have a particular salience and importance to young people. -- Malcolm Gladwell
In a devastating critique, the sociologist Pitirim Sorokin once showed that if Terman had simply put together a randomly selected group of children from the same kinds of family backgrounds as the Termites - and -- Malcolm Gladwell
People are ruined by challenged economic lives. But they are ruined by wealth as well because they lose their ambition and they lose their pride and they lose their sense of self-worth -- Malcolm Gladwell
They have a national policy where they have no ability grouping until the age of ten. Denmark waits to make selection decisions until maturity differences by age have evened out. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Success has to do with deliberate practice. Practice must be focused, determined, and in an environment where there's feedback. -- Malcolm Gladwell
To appreciate the power of epidemics, we have to abandon this expectation about proportionality. We need to prepare ourselves for the possibility that sometimes big changes follow from small events, and that sometimes these changes can happen very quickly. -- Malcolm Gladwell
My earliest memories of my father are of seeing him work at his desk and realizing that he was happy. I did not know it then, but that was one of the most precious gifts a father can give his child. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Our world requires that decisions be sourced and footnoted, and if we say how we feel, we must also be prepared to elaborate on why we feel that way ... We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that - sometimes - we're better off that way. -- Malcolm Gladwell
My great-great-great-grandmother -- Malcolm Gladwell
You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano? -- Malcolm Gladwell
Of the three, the third trait - the idea that epidemics can rise or fall in one dramatic moment - is the most important, because it is the principle that makes sense of the first two and that permits the greatest insight into why modern change happens the way it does. The -- Malcolm Gladwell
Hey hey its Brooke im 12 and having trouble my teacher told me to get on here sooo yaaa see ya soon pic uplaodin soon!!!!!!!!!!!! -- Malcolm Gladwell
From experience, we gain a powerful gift, the ability to act instinctively, in the moment. -- Malcolm Gladwell
My rule is that if I interview someone, they should never read what I have to say about them and regret having given me the interview. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Lesson Number One: The Importance of Being Jewish -- Malcolm Gladwell
I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Our unconscious is really good at quick decision-making - it often delivers a better answer than more deliberate and exhaustive ways of thinking. -- Malcolm Gladwell
When I saw the kouros for the first time," he said, "I felt as though there was a glass between me and the work. -- Malcolm Gladwell
are many studies that say they can't find a statistically significant effect of some policy change," Hoxby says. "That doesn't mean that there wasn't an effect. It just means that they couldn't find it in the data. In this study, I -- Malcolm Gladwell
But as is so often the case with outliers, buried in that setback was a golden opportunity. -- Malcolm Gladwell
It changes how people read you if you believe in God. It gives insight into your motivation, how you look at problems and how you deal with people. -- Malcolm Gladwell
We overlook just how large a role we all play
and by 'we' I mean society
in determining who makes it and who doesn't. -- Malcolm Gladwell
As human beings we are a lot more sophisticated about each other than we are about the abstract world. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Sometimes the most modest changes can bring about enormous effects. -- Malcolm Gladwell
all that much. 3 Clear first described his ideas some years ago in a research paper entitled -- Malcolm Gladwell
Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and that's because they don't understand how complex and paradoxical our snap judgments are. It's hard to measure new songs. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Choking is about thinking too much. Panic is about thinking too little. Choking is about loss of instinct. Panic is reversion to instinct. They may look the same, but they are worlds apart. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Performance ought to improve with experience, and pressure is an obstacle that the diligent can overcome. -- Malcolm Gladwell
No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest. -- Malcolm Gladwell
run up the hillside, flanked by closely clustered two-story -- Malcolm Gladwell
When people are overwhelmed with information and develop immunity to traditional forms of communication, they turn instead for advice and information to the people in their lives whom they respect, admire, and trust. The cure for immunity is finding Mavens, Connectors, and Salesmen. -- Malcolm Gladwell
We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The school year in the United States is, on average, 180 days long. The South Korean school year is 220 days long. The Japanese school year is 243 days long. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good. -- Malcolm Gladwell
A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The sense of possibility so necessary for success comes not just from inside us or from our parents. It comes from our time: from the particular opportunities that our place in history presents us with. -- Malcolm Gladwell
In 52 percent of crashes, the pilot at the time of the accident has been awake for twelve hours or more, meaning that he is tired and not thinking sharply. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I'm necessarily parasitic in a way. I have done well as a parasite. But I'm still a parasite. -- Malcolm Gladwell
For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Look at the world around you. It may seem like an immovable, implacable place. It is not, With the slightest push - in just the right place - it can be tipped. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Acquaintances, in sort, represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are. -- Malcolm Gladwell
If I am still a somber man, incapable of laughing whole-heartedly, -- Malcolm Gladwell
We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don't matter at all. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The palace of the Saggese family, once the great landowner of those parts. An archway -- Malcolm Gladwell
The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story. -- Malcolm Gladwell
In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Those who are successful at creating social epidemics do not just do what they think is right. They deliberately test their intuitions. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I've been in auditions without screens, and I can assure you that I was prejudiced. I began to listen with my eyes, and there is no way that your eyes don't affect your judgement. The only true way to listen is with your ears and your heart. (p.251) -- Malcolm Gladwell
A prediction, in a field where prediction is not possible, is no more than a prejudice. -- Malcolm Gladwell
University University of Toronto University of Nebraska -- Malcolm Gladwell
The people at the top don't just work harder. They work much, much harder. -- Malcolm Gladwell
talked to every person aged twenty-one -- Malcolm Gladwell
Situation is. The flight engineer points to the empty fuel gauge, and makes a throat-cutting gesture with his finger.* But he says nothing. Nor does anyone else for the next five minutes. There's radio chatter and routine business, and then the flight engineer cries -- Malcolm Gladwell
Countless religious innovators over the years have played the game of establishing an identity for themselves by accentuating their otherness. -- Malcolm Gladwell
People who are busy doing things - as opposed to people who are busy sitting around, like me, reading and having coffee in coffee shops -don't have opportunities to kind of collect and organize their experiences and make sense of them. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Arousal leaves us mind-blind. -- Malcolm Gladwell
In life, most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. All the improvisation teacher has to do is to reverse this skill and he creates very 'gifted' improvisers. Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Of the seventy-five names, an astonishing fourteen are Americans born within nine years of one another in the mid-nineteenth century. Think about that for a moment. Historians start with Cleopatra and the -- Malcolm Gladwell
psychologist Timothy -- Malcolm Gladwell
If people disobey, don't ask what is wrong with them, ask what's wrong with their leaders. -- Malcolm Gladwell
But remember, the logic of the inverted-U curve is that the same strategies that work really well at first stop working past a certain point, and that's exactly what many criminologists argue happens with punishment. -- Malcolm Gladwell
That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop thinking and introspecting so much and do a little more acting. -- Malcolm Gladwell
People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The underdog winning is the romantic position. -- Malcolm Gladwell
But we need to remember that our definition of what is right is, as often as not, simply the way that people in positions of privilege close the door on those on the outside. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis. -- Malcolm Gladwell
One of the most important tools in contemporary educational research is value added analysis. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The Band-Aid is an inexpensive, convenient, and remarkably versatile solution to an astonishing array of problems. -- Malcolm Gladwell
If a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in charge. Soon, more windows will be broken, and the sense of anarchy will spread from the building to the street on which it faces, sending a signal that anything goes. -- Malcolm Gladwell
dietary practices -- Malcolm Gladwell
What is learned out of hard work and trial is inevitably more powerful than what is learned easily. -- Malcolm Gladwell
My mother read me biblical stories at night. -- Malcolm Gladwell
As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid. -- Malcolm Gladwell
There is a set of advantages that have to do with material resources, and there is a set that have to do with the absence of material resources- and the reason underdogs win as often as they do is that the latter is sometimes every bit the equal of the former. -- Malcolm Gladwell
An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The excessive use of force creates legitimacy problems, and force without legitimacy leads to defiance, not submission. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Success is deeply rooted in time and place. You may have the drive to read tons of books on biology. But if there are no books on biology in your library, and the library is never open, your drive is meaningless. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Wolf and Bruhn had to convince the medical establishment to think about health and heart attacks in an entirely new way: they had to get them to realize that they wouldn't be able to understand why someone was -- Malcolm Gladwell
All the outliers we've looked at so far were the beneficiaries of some kind of unusual opportunity. Lucky breaks don't seem like the exception with software billionaires and rock bands and star athletes. They seem like the rule. -- Malcolm Gladwell
They lacked something that could have been given to them if we'd only known they needed it: a community around them that prepared them properly for the world. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Humans socialize in the largest groups of all primates because we are the only animals with brains large enough to handle the complexities of that social arrangement. -- Malcolm Gladwell
In the Big Pond chapter, I talked about the fact that being on the outside, in a less elite and less privileged environment, can give you more freedom to pursue your own ideas and academic interests. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Flom had the same experience ... He didn't triumph over adversity. Instead, what started out as adversity ended up being an opportunity. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Each of us has his or her own distinct personality. But overlaid on top of that are tendencies and assumptions and reflexes handed down to us by the history of the community we grew up in, and those differences are extraordinarily specific. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I'm totally engaging in cultural stereotyping, no question about it. But I think it's OK because I'm doing it for a reason, for a good reason. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The nature of athletic celebrity is increasingly moving away from the actual field of play. -- Malcolm Gladwell
So long as the stereotype is used as a way of understanding how to fix the problem as opposed to demonizing a people or writing them off, then I think it's OK. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I try to be unafraid of making a fool of myself. -- Malcolm Gladwell
If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience! -- Malcolm Gladwell
We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair -- Malcolm Gladwell
In the government's eyes, the Branch Davidians were a threat. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Epidemics are a function of the people who transmit infectious agents, the infectious agent itself, and the environment in which the infectious agent is operating. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Our intuitions, as humans, aren't always very good. Changes that happen really suddenly, on the strength of the most minor of input, can be deeply confusing. -- Malcolm Gladwell
from centuries past, as well as contemporary billionaires, such -- Malcolm Gladwell
We have, I think, a very rigid and limited definition of what an advantage is. We think of things as helpful that actually aren't and think of other things as unhelpful that in reality leave us stronger and wiser. -- Malcolm Gladwell
We [people] can't do much about the fate part, but we can certainly do a lot about the man part. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I mean, it's ridiculous," Dhuey says. "It's outlandish that our arbitrary choice of cutoff dates is causing these long-lasting effects, and no one seems to care about them. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Power has an important limitation. It has to be seen as legitimate, or else its use has the opposite of its intended effect. -- Malcolm Gladwell
IQ is a measure, to some degree, of innate ability. But social savvy is knowledge. It's a set of skills that have to be learned. It has to come from somewhere, and the place where we seem to get these kinds of attitudes and skills is from our families. -- Malcolm Gladwell
We need to accept our ignorance and say 'I don't know' more often. -- Malcolm Gladwell
We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves. -- Malcolm Gladwell
What we do as a community, as a society, for each other, matters as much as what we do for ourselves. It sounds a little trite, but there's a powerful amount of truth in that, I think. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Forgiveness is a religious imperative: forgive those who trespass against you. But it is also a very practical strategy based on the belief that there are profound limits to what the formal mechanisms of retribution can accomplish. -- Malcolm Gladwell
If I was President of the United States, I'd rather be right than interesting. If I was CEO of a company, I'd rather be right than interesting. But I'm a journalist - what journalist would rather be right than interesting? -- Malcolm Gladwell
The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Shallow communities are relatively easy to build. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The first person who throws the rock is a lot more radical than a hundredth person.By the time the riot has attracted a hundred people, you don't have to be nearly as much of a daredevil or a hothead or committed or any of those things to want to engage in a riot. -- Malcolm Gladwell
In the general American population, 3.9 percent of adult men are six foot two or taller. Among my CEO sample, almost a third were six foot two or taller. -- Malcolm Gladwell
People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation. -- Malcolm Gladwell
community, which -- Malcolm Gladwell
What happens when two people talk? That is really the basic question here, because, that's the basic context in which all persuasion takes place. -- Malcolm Gladwell
If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing? -- Malcolm Gladwell
We have, in short, somehow become convinced that we need to tackle the whole problem, all at once. But the truth is that we don't. We only need to find the stickiness Tipping Points, -- Malcolm Gladwell
Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew! -- Malcolm Gladwell
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. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Father: 'Anything but journalism.' I rebelled. -- Malcolm Gladwell
In winter, the lazy man freezes to death. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family. She -- Malcolm Gladwell
We all know that successful people come from hardy seeds. But do we know enough about the sunlight -- Malcolm Gladwell
miles down the mountain in the morning and then making the long journey back up the hill at night. Life was hard. The townsfolk were barely literate and desperately poor and without much hope for economic betterment until word reached Roseto at the end -- Malcolm Gladwell
If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Under time pressure, they began to behave just as people do when they are highly aroused. they stopped relying on the actual evidence of their senses and fell back on a rigid and unyielding system, a stereotype. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Come to me, that I may give your flesh to the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the field, -- Malcolm Gladwell
I'm a purist: I start to wrinkle my nose when the Cold War ends. -- Malcolm Gladwell
It's as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary gland that causes an overproduction of human growth hormone. And throughout history, many of the most famous giants have all had acromegaly. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I don't really collect books. I tend to lose interest in them the minute I've read them, so most of the books I've read are left in airplanes and hotel rooms. -- Malcolm Gladwell
To play by David's rules you have to be desperate. You have to be so bad that you have no choice. -- Malcolm Gladwell
There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria. -- Malcolm Gladwell
And when the law is applied in the absence of legitimacy, it does not produce obedience. It produces the opposite. It leads to backlash.6 -- Malcolm Gladwell
You need to have the ability to gracefully navigate the world. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Contagiousness is in larger part a function of the messenger. Stickiness is primarily a property of the message. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I became convinced that knowing lots of people was kind of skill, something that the diligent can overcome. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Sometimes constraints actually create success. Not being able to swim made me run. And running taught me the discipline I needed as a writer. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make -- Malcolm Gladwell
Courage is not something that you already have that makes you brave when the tough times start. Courage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all. -- Malcolm Gladwell
But the better answer is that Hotchkiss has simply fallen into the trap that wealthy people and wealthy institutions and wealthy countries - all Goliaths - too often fall into: the school assumes that the kinds of things that wealth can buy always translate into real-world advantages. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues ... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time. -- Malcolm Gladwell
When we talk about analytic versus intuitive decision making, neither is good or bad. What is bad is if you use either of them in an inappropriate circumstance. -- Malcolm Gladwell
It would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions. -- Malcolm Gladwell
What Hartshorne and May concluded, then, is that something like honesty isn't a fundamental trait, or what they called a "unified" trait. A trait like honesty, they concluded, is considerably influenced by the situation. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Have you ever wondered ... how religious movements get started? Usually, we think of them as a product of highly charismatic evangelists ... but the spread of any new and contagious ideology also has a lot to do with the skillful use of group power. -- Malcolm Gladwell
They were unconvinced of the power of giants. -- Malcolm Gladwell
There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Works were expected to be microscopically accurate, properly 'finished' and formally framed, with proper perspective and all the familiar artistic conventions, -- Malcolm Gladwell
And do you know who wrote much of the software that allows you to access the Internet? Bill Joy. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I don't think I will ever write about politics or foreign policy. I feel like there is so much good writing in those areas that I have little to add. I also like to steer clear of writing about people whom I do not personally like. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The power of knowing, in that first two seconds, is not a gift given magically to a fortunate few. It is an ability that we can all cultivate for ourselves. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom. -- Malcolm Gladwell
There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never. -- Malcolm Gladwell
It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one - not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses - ever makes it alone. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Just dumb enough to be fearless, just bright enough to be dangerous, -- Malcolm Gladwell
Students who attend what they considered to be their first-choice school were less likely to persist in a biomedical or behavioral science major, they write. You think you want to go to the fanciest school you can. You don't. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Contagiousness is an unexpected property of all kinds of things. -- Malcolm Gladwell
[Practical intelligence is] practical in nature: that is, it's now knowledge for its own sake. It's knowledge that helps you read situations correctly and get what you want. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I found if I go to bed with a question on my mind, all I have to do is concentrate on the question before I go to sleep and I virtually always have the answer in the morning. -- Malcolm Gladwell
All my books are optimistic! -- Malcolm Gladwell
Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out. -- Malcolm Gladwell
That's like being a hockey player born on January I. -- Malcolm Gladwell
We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that - sometimes - we're better off that way. 1. -- Malcolm Gladwell
If you're in business it's both a promise and a warning. It says that sometimes little things can cause some little guy to have an overnight success. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game? -- Malcolm Gladwell
I should point out that I have a picture of Asbel Kiprop as the screensaver on my phone. Is that embarrassing? -- Malcolm Gladwell
We are what we read. It's probably better that way. -- Malcolm Gladwell
He was an underdog and a misfit, and that gave him the freedom to try things no one else even dreamt of. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Visionaries are limited by their visions. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Those born in the last quarter of the year might as well give up on hockey too. -- Malcolm Gladwell
1: something that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body -- Malcolm Gladwell
We spend a lot of time thinking about the ways that prestige and resources and belonging to elite institutions make us better off. We don't spend enough time thinking about the ways in which those kinds of material advantages limit our options. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Working really hard is what successful people do ... -- Malcolm Gladwell
We have a definition in our heads of what an advantage is - and the definition isn't right. And what happens as a result? It means that we make mistakes. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The difference isn't resources, it's attitude. -- Malcolm Gladwell
the 10,000hr rule is a definite key in success -- Malcolm Gladwell
Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen. -- Malcolm Gladwell
It is quite possible for people who have never met us and who have spent only twenty minutes thinking about us to come to a better understanding of who we are than people who have known us
for years. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Man evolved to feel strongly about few people, short distances, and relatively brief intervals of time; and these are still the dimensions of life that are important to him. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research ... for ways of augmenting story-telling. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I've always been baffled by how much we over-rate the statistically insignificant differences that separate competitors at the top end of the distribution. -- Malcolm Gladwell
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. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Sometimes [genius] is just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table. -- Malcolm Gladwell
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
We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I worry that track is going to enter into an impossibly complicated stage, where our understanding of the complexities of human physiology - and our ability to accentuate and exploit them - is going to make the notion of pure competition impossible. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Through embracing the diversity of humans beings, we will find a sure way to true happiness. -- Malcolm Gladwell
one. It's the kind of really hard question that comes at the end of the Raven's. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing ... It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't. -- Malcolm Gladwell
People don't rise from nothing, -- Malcolm Gladwell
What are we seeing here? One very real possibility is that these are the educational consequences of the differences in parenting styles that we talked about in the Chris Langan chapter. Think back to Alex Williams, the nine-year-old whom Annette Lareau studied. -- Malcolm Gladwell
a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample -- Malcolm Gladwell
A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap. -- Malcolm Gladwell
When crime drops dramatically in New York for no apparent reason, or when a movie made on a shoestring budget ends up making hundreds of millions of dollars - we're surprised. I'm saying, don't be surprised. This is the way social epidemics work. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers are those who have been given opportunities - and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them. -- Malcolm Gladwell
When you're an underdog, you're forced to try things you would never otherwise have attempted. -- Malcolm Gladwell
They were not really afraid. They were just afraid of being afraid. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Successful people don't do it alone. Where they come from matters. They're products of particular places and environments. -- Malcolm Gladwell
One harder than the one before it, and IQ is calculated based -- Malcolm Gladwell
That late bloomers bloom late because they simply aren't much good until late in their careers. -- Malcolm Gladwell
In the six degrees of separation, not all degrees are equal. -- Malcolm Gladwell
You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it. -- Malcolm Gladwell
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Achievement is talent plus preparation -- Malcolm Gladwell
A vervet, in other words, is very good at processing certain kinds of vervetish information, but not so good at processing other kinds of information. -- Malcolm Gladwell
You have to be outside the establishment - a foreigner new to the game -- Malcolm Gladwell
Epidemics are sensitive to the conditions and circumstances of the times and places in which they occur. -- Malcolm Gladwell
We tell rags-to-riches stories because we find something captivating in the idea of a lone hero battling overwhelming odds. -- Malcolm Gladwell
By shifting the balance away from the individual we open the door for the individual. Because we make it obvious that anyone can do it given the right circumstance. -- Malcolm Gladwell
So what does correlate with brain size? The answer, Dunbar argues, is group size. If you look at any species of primate-at every variety of monkey and ape-the larger their neocortex is, the larger the average size of the groups they live with. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Taleb's hero, on the other hand, is Karl Popper, who said that you could not know with any certainty that a proposition was true; -- Malcolm Gladwell
The trickster is not a trickster by nature. He is a trickster by necessity. -- Malcolm Gladwell
With his trademark counterintuitive logic how the habits of highly successful people pale in -- Malcolm Gladwell
Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking. -- Malcolm Gladwell
that made the unfamiliar familiar. -- Malcolm Gladwell
If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The music critic Harold Schonberg goes further: Mozart, he argues, actually "developed late," since he didn't produce his greatest work until he had been composing for more than twenty years. -- Malcolm Gladwell
When people in authority want the rest of us to behave, it matters - first and foremost - how they behave. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Happiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Emotion is contagious. -- Malcolm Gladwell
But what truly distinguishes their histories is not their extraordinary talent but their extraordinary opportunities. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Snap judgments are, first of all, enormously quick: they rely on the thinnest slices of experience. But they are also unconscious. -- Malcolm Gladwell
The actual experience of the thing that was feared is a lot less scary than the person imagined. -- Malcolm Gladwell
My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, a four-volume work so dense that its readers were evenly divided between those who understood it and thought it was brilliant and those who did not understand it and thought it was brilliant. -- Malcolm Gladwell
All positive traits, states, and experiences have costs that at high levels may begin to outweigh their benefits. -- Malcolm Gladwell
selection decisions until maturity -- Malcolm Gladwell
Words belong to the person who wrote them -- Malcolm Gladwell
