“Some people look like they sound better than they actually sound, because they look confident and have good posture," once musician, a… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
If your parents are billionaires, that might actually be an obstacle to your own happiness and self-development. If you go to Oxford… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“[smart scientist (Climberg??)] and his team built an artificial intelligence system. They fed it the same information that prosecutors had given judges… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Students who attend what they considered to be their first-choice school were less likely to persist in a biomedical or behavioral science… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action."(p.115)” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“When I saw the kouros for the first time," he said, "I felt as though there was a glass between me and… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“The idea that excellence at performing a complex task requires a critical minimum level of practice surfaces again and again in studies… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?" — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The religious paradigm and the science fiction paradigm are different. Apologies to science fiction fans, but the paradigm there is to create… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“the most advanced computer science programs in the world, and over the course of the Computer Center’s life, thousands of students passed” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
It is the new and different that is always most vulnerable to market research. — 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