If there is one thing I learned by reading Epstein's "The Sports Gene" it is that world-class athletes are, by definition, abnormal:… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Track is full of the absolute nicest and most polite athletes in all of sports, and where does it get us? — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I remember as a kid watching one of the Olympic games, and I was cheering for a big track athlete. He was… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
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… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
David Epstein, the author of the best book on athletics in recent memory - "The Sports Gene" - wrote to me to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
In a country that never wins anything: in Canada, if one of our athletes so much as makes the final in a… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
A fan is always an outsider. Most sportswriters are not, by this definition, fans. They capitalize on access to athletes. They spoke… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
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.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
“The scholars who research happiness suggest that more money stops making people happier at a family income of around seventy-five thousand dollars a year.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
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… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
“Some people look like they sound better than they actually sound, because they look confident and have good posture," once musician, a veteran of… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
“neighborhood was filled with engineers from Hewlett-Packard, then as now one of” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
“People are ruined by challenged economic lives. But they are ruined by wealth as well because they lose their ambition and they lose their… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
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 Copy Share
[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people of the… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
“An archway to one side leads to a church, the Madonna del Carmine—Our Lady of Mount Carmine. Narrow” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
“Most psychologists believe that nature—genetics—accounts for about half of the reason why we tend to act the way we do. His point is simply… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
