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
“Most psychologists believe that nature—genetics—accounts for about half of the reason why we tend to act the way we do. His point… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
[Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“there is a reproducible correlation between the time required to pronounce numbers in a given language and the memory span of its… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I would say first of all, anyone who wants to challenge the status quo always gets that response. Ninety percent of the… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I interviewed one of the most powerful lawyers in the world and he told me, "At the time, it was the worst… — 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
To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I don't think people are averse to thinking about things in a deep way, but we have limited time and opportunity to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
extreme visual clarity, tunnel vision, diminished sound, and the sense that time is slowing down. this is how the human body reacts… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Take the great example of the four-minute mile. One guy breaks it, then all of a sudden everyone breaks it. And they… — 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
“We spend a lot of time thinking about the ways that prestige and resources and belonging to elite institutions make us better… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Suppose you were to total up all the wars over the past two hundred years that occurred between very large and very… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“In 52 percent of crashes, the pilot at the time of the accident has been awake for twelve hours or more, meaning… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
We tend to credit those who create an idea, not those who perfect it, forgetting that it is often only in the… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
..... it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Success is deeply rooted in time and place. You may have the drive to read tons of books on biology. But if… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
If you look at the careers of great entrepreneurs and you look at the moment they took their plunge, the plunge is… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“The term used by linguists to describe what Klotz was engaging in in that moment is “mitigated speech,” which refers to any… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“For every remote miss who becomes stronger, there are countless near misses who are crushed by what they have been through. There… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“course, didn’t mean much, since Roseto was so much in its own world that it was possible to live in the next… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“We live in a world that assumes that the quality of a decision is directly related to the time and effort that… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The Band-Aid solution is actually the best kind of solution because it involves solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort… — 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
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