Whenever we have something that we are good at--something we care about--that experience and passion fundamentally change the nature of our first… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
As a writer, I know that - you write a first draft and then put it in a drawer. The longer I… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
There are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions . .… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When people in authority want the rest of us to behave, it matters-first and foremost-how they behave. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The first person who throws the rock is a lot more radical than a hundredth person.By the time the riot has attracted… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I always resist seeing my own personal motivation in my work, but I guess it must be there on some level. And… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
our unconscious reactions come out of a locked room, and we can't look inside that room. but with experience we become expert… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The answer is that we are not helpless in the face of our first impressions. They may bubble up from the unconscious… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone first engages in… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Lands' End has undergone three major changes over the past couple of decades. The first was the introduction of an 800 number,… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
People are in one of two states in a relationship,” Gottman went on. “The first is what I call positive sentiment override,… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The iPod is clearly a tipping point (and I'm not quite sure it is a wholly positive development), because it is a… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone first engages in… — 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
