There’s this powerful phrase in the legal world, “Difficult cases make bad law.” The exception is the difficult case. You can’t generalize… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world. — 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
Anyone who knows the marketing world knows that ideas come and go, and people latch onto things and think of them as… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
People at CDC [Centers for Disease Control] who cut their teeth on diseases over the last 10 years have started to think… — 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
Jenny Simpson loses her shoe in the women's fifteen hundred, with a lap and a half to go, destroying her chances to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
There is nothing more common than critics of journalists accusing them of practicing journalism. It is our function in the world to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Six degrees of separation doesn't mean that everyone is linked to everyone else in just six steps. It means that a very… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success--the fortunate… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Look at the world around you. It may seem like an immovable, implacable place. It is not. With the slightest push -… — 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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