All Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
- [Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet. Barrel
- The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and more importantly, whether you ought… Accuracy
- Shortly after the birth control pill was approved for public distribution, one woman wrote to John Rock, its inventor, "You should be afraid to meet… Afraid
- The people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder. Basketball
- For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it. Capable
- We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair Ability
- The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are. Effect
- Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If… Any
- Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and that's because they don't understand how complex and paradoxical our snap judgments are. It's hard to measure… Complex
- Living a long life, the conventional wisdom at the time said, depended to a great extent on who we were-that is, our genes. It depended… Chose
- Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen. Expertise
- I've been in auditions without screens, and I can assure you that I was prejudiced. I began to listen with my eyes, and there is… Affect
- Whenever we have something that we are good at--something we care about--that experience and passion fundamentally change the nature of our first impressions. Care
- To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fisher got to that elite level in less than… Amount
- There is more going on beneath the surface than we think, and more going on in little, finite moments of time than we would guess. Beneath
- I have a new way of doing things, and I don’t care if you think I’m crazy. Care
- Courage is what you earn when you’ve been through the tough times and you discover they aren’t so tough after all, All
- When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the negative… Academic
- The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom. Crime
- Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs. Entrepreneur
- An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone. Abuse
- 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 be… Businessman
- You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first… Been
- I'm necessarily parasitic in a way. I have done well as a parasite. But I'm still a parasite. Done Well
- The hope with Tipping Point was it would help the reader understand that real change was possible. With Blink, I wanted to get people to… Blink