The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
My father read Charles Dickens to us as children, and at the end of virtually every novel he would choke up and… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
My earliest memories of my father are of seeing him work at his desk and realizing that he was happy. I did… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The poorer children were, to her mind, often better behaved, less whiny, more creative in making use of their own time, and… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“It is a strange thing, isn’t it, to have an educational philosophy that thinks of the other students in the classroom with… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
My highest compliment is when someone comes up to me to say, "My 14-year-old daughter, or my 12-year-old son read your book… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“program and not. “It’s just like sports,” Dhuey said. “We do ability grouping early on in childhood. We have advanced reading groups… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Can you see why Teresa DeBrito was so worried about Shepaug Valley? She is the principal of a middle school, teaching children… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“The small initial advantage that the child born in the early part of the year has over” — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“neighborhood was filled with engineers from Hewlett-Packard, then as now one of” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
[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 Image
The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
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 Image