All Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
- I remember as a kid watching one of the Olympic games, and I was cheering for a big track athlete. He was the favorite to… Athlete
- I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking. Avoidant
- All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated. All
- Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse… Assume
- People in great institutions are occasionally credulous. Credulous
- It is useful to compare the Branch Davidians with the Mormons of the mid-nineteenth century. The Mormons were vilified in those years in large part… Believed
- Countless religious innovators over the years have played the game of establishing an identity for themselves by accentuating their otherness. Accentuating
- Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country… African
- The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent. Anger
- In cross-country skiing, athletes propel themselves over distances of ten and twenty miles - a physical challenge that places intense demands on the ability of… Ability
- The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his… Athlete
- In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does world-class neurosurgery. Class
- When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to reduce economic anxiety… Always Tried
- The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis. Consider
- In my mid-adolescence, my friend Terry Martin and I became obsessed with William F. Buckley. This makes more sense when you realize that we were… Adolescence
- My rule is that if I interview someone, they should never read what I have to say about them and regret having given me the… Given
- I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling. Academic
- Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability. Disability
- Innovationthe heart of the knowledge economyis fundamentally social. Fundamentally