All Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
- The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce… Derivative
- My earliest memories of my father are of seeing him work at his desk and realizing that he was happy. I did not know it… Child
- We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and… All
- It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being… Five
- Emotion is contagious. Contagious
- We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken. Hidden
- Re-reading is much underrated. I've read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold once every five years since I was 15. I only started… Came
- Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you… Becomes
- ...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151) Assert
- Character isn't what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn't a stable, easily identifiable set of closely related… Bound
- You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle… Actual
- Why are man hole covers around?" If you don't knwo the answer to the questions, you're not smart enough to work at microsoft Answer
- We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction. Adequacy
- That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first. Contagious
- the 10,000hr rule is a definite key in success Definite
- [Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot,… Act
- A study at the University of Utah found that if you ask someone why he is friendly with someone else, he’ll say it is because… Activities
- Achievement is talent plus preparation Achievement
- Nothing frustrates me more than someone who reads something of mine or anyone else's and says, angrily, 'I don't buy it.' Why are they angry?… Ability
- If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can… Behavior