“To Sternberg, practical intelligence includes things like “knowing what to say to whom, knowing when to say it, and knowing how to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“The particular skill that allows you to talk your way out of a murder rap, or convince your professor to move you… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“By no stretch of the imagination or of standards of genius,” Sorokin concluded, “is the ‘gifted group’ as a whole ‘gifted.’ ”… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Tversky Intelligence Test”: The faster you realized Tversky was smarter than you, the smarter you were.” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The particular skill that allows you to talk your way out of a murder rap, or convince your professor to move you… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“general intelligence and practical intelligence are "orthogonal": the presence of one doesn't imply the presence of the other.” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“[Practical intelligence is] practical in nature: that is, it's now knowledge for its own sake. It's knowledge that helps you read situations… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Sometimes [genius] is just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table. — 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