Occasions when you can change your mind should be cherished, because they mean you're smarter than you were before. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“We have become obsessed with what is good about small classrooms and oblivious about what also can be good about large classes.… — 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
Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Outliers are those who have been given opportunities—and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“I found if I go to bed with a question on my mind, all I have to do is concentrate on the… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I don't go to an office, so I write at home. I like to write in the morning, if possible; that's when… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“second lesson of Blink. Too often we are resigned to what happens in the blink of an eye. It doesn’t seem like… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“The “IQ fundamentalist” Arthur Jensen put it thusly in his 1980 book Bias in Mental Testing (p. 113): “The four socially and… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“It was an admission of defeat. ... He knew he needed to do a better job of navigating the world, but he… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we're better off if the mind behind the locked door makes our decisions for us” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151) — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“I feel I change my mind all the time. And I sort of feel that's your responsibility as a person, as a… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Education lays the foundation of a large portion of the causes of mental disorder” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“psychologists Barry Schwartz and Adam Grant argue, in a brilliant paper, that, in fact, nearly everything of consequence follows the inverted U:… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“the face is an enormously rich source of information about emotion. In fact, he makes an even bolder claim—one central to understanding… — 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