There is more going on beneath the surface than we think, and more going on in little, finite moments of time than… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Courage is not something that you already have that makes you brave when the tough times start. Courage is what you earn… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Courage is what you earn when you’ve been through the tough times and you discover they aren’t so tough after all, — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The sense of possibility so necessary for success comes not just from inside us or from our parents. It comes from our… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that. — 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
“when you remove time," de becker says, "you are subject to the lowest-quality intuitive reaction” — 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
“In one experiment, for example, Latane and Darley had a student alone in a room stage an epileptic fit. When there was… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
being able to act intelligently and instinctively in the moment is possible only after a long and rigorous of education and experience — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Once the criminal has served his time, he returns to his old neighborhood. There’s a good chance he’s been psychologically damaged by… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Character is more like a bundle of habits and tendencies and interests, loosely bound together and dependent, at certain times, on circumstance… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Living a long life, the conventional wisdom at the time said, depended to a great extent on who we were-that is, our… — 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
We spend a lot of time and effort trying to figure out who's going to be a good NFL quarterback, and we… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
All artists have to do that at a certain point. This shift that has to happen between the initial moment of creation… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“under time pressure, they began to behave just as people do when they are highly aroused. they stopped relying on the actual… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Since becoming a journalist, each time I engage with subjects I become more radicalized. — 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