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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
Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen.
— 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
If we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition
— 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
Those who are successful at creating social epidemics do not just do what they think is right. They deliberately test their intuitions.
— Malcolm Gladwell
Emotion is contagious.
— Malcolm Gladwell
[ ... ] the sense of entitlement [ ... ] is an attitude perfectly suited to succeeding in the modern world
— Malcolm Gladwell
There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.
— Malcolm Gladwell
You have to be outside the establishment - a foreigner new to the game
— 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
Capitalization learning: we get good at something by building on the strengths that we are naturally given.
— 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
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— Malcolm Gladwell
The excessive use of force creates legitimacy problems, and force without legitimacy leads to defiance, not submission.
— Malcolm Gladwell
The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.
— Malcolm Gladwell
But as is so often the case with outliers, buried in that setback was a golden opportunity.
— Malcolm Gladwell
I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.
— Malcolm Gladwell
Working really hard is what successful people do ...
— Malcolm Gladwell
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
— Malcolm Gladwell
Epidemics are sensitive to the conditions and circumstances of the times and places in which they occur.
— Malcolm Gladwell
Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.
— Malcolm Gladwell
Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!
— Malcolm Gladwell
Extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make
— Malcolm Gladwell
As human beings we are a lot more sophisticated about each other than we are about the abstract world.
— 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
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
That the best students from mediocre schools were almost always a better bet than good students from the very best schools.
— Malcolm Gladwell
Don't get me wrong. I love my mother-in-law. It's her daughter I can't figure out.
— Malcolm Gladwell
We should be firing bad teachers.
— Malcolm Gladwell
Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.
— 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 most advanced computer science programs in the world, and over the course of the Computer Center's life, thousands of students passed
— Malcolm Gladwell
Innovation-the heart of the knowledge economy-is fundamentally social.
— Malcolm Gladwell
Nobody accomplishes success by themselves.
— 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
Minor, seemingly insignificant quality-of-life crimes, they said, were Tipping Points for violent crime.
— 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
Just dumb enough to be fearless, just bright enough to be dangerous,
— 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
We [people] can't do much about the fate part, but we can certainly do a lot about the man part.
— 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
You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?
— 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
A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
— Malcolm Gladwell
My great-great-great-grandmother
— 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
A prediction, in a field where prediction is not possible, is no more than a prejudice.
— Malcolm Gladwell
The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
— Malcolm Gladwell
The giant's name was Goliath. The shepherd boy's name was David.
— Malcolm Gladwell
The simplest way that respect is communicated is through tone of voice,
— Malcolm Gladwell
Without the New York Times, there is no blog community. They'd have nothing to blog about.
— Malcolm Gladwell
What is learned out of necessity is inevitably more powerful than the learning that comes easily.
— Malcolm Gladwell
the 10,000hr rule is a definite key in success
— 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 trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.
— 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
David and Goliath is a book about what happens when ordinary people confront giants.
— Malcolm Gladwell
When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.
— Malcolm Gladwell
As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid.
— Malcolm Gladwell
The Law of the Few, ... says that one critical factor in epidemics is the nature of the messenger.
— Malcolm Gladwell
we put the stories of hockey players and the Beatles and
— 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
The actual experience of the thing that was feared is a lot less scary than the person imagined.
— Malcolm Gladwell
I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
— 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
Some pretend to be rich, yet have nothing; others pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.
— Malcolm Gladwell
The difference isn't resources, it's attitude.
— Malcolm Gladwell
Extraordinary achievement is less about talent than it is about opportunity.
— 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
If a revolution is not accessible, tangible, and replicable, how on earth can it be a revolution?
— 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
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
Contagiousness is an unexpected property of all kinds of things.
— Malcolm Gladwell
run up the hillside, flanked by closely clustered two-story
— Malcolm Gladwell
We are what we read. It's probably better that way.
— Malcolm Gladwell
Sometimes the most modest changes can bring about enormous effects.
— Malcolm Gladwell
In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.
— Malcolm Gladwell
Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart.
— Malcolm Gladwell
Poor parents tend to follow[ ... ] a strategy of "accomplishment of natural growth".
— Malcolm Gladwell
That late bloomers bloom late because they simply aren't much good until late in their careers.
— 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
People are experience-rich and theory-poor.
— Malcolm Gladwell
a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample
— Malcolm Gladwell
I have a new way of doing things, and I don't care if you think I'm crazy.
— Malcolm Gladwell
Sesame Street succeeded because it learned how to make television sticky.
— Malcolm Gladwell
No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.
— 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
I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research ... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
— Malcolm Gladwell
Change your mind about something significant every day.
— Malcolm Gladwell
The Band-Aid is an inexpensive, convenient, and remarkably versatile solution to an astonishing array of problems.
— Malcolm Gladwell
A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.
— 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
You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.
— Malcolm Gladwell
Owe no one anything except to love one another;
— Malcolm Gladwell
If I am still a somber man, incapable of laughing whole-heartedly,
— Malcolm Gladwell
Father: 'Anything but journalism.' I rebelled.
— Malcolm Gladwell