Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell Famous Quotes & Sayings
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But what truly distinguishes their histories is not their extraordinary talent but their extraordinary opportunities.
I'm totally engaging in cultural stereotyping, no question about it. But I think it's OK because I'm doing it for a reason, for a good reason.
Success has to do with deliberate practice. Practice must be focused, determined, and in an environment where there's feedback.
Happiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference.
When I saw the kouros for the first time," he said, "I felt as though there was a glass between me and the work.
[ ... ] the sense of entitlement [ ... ] is an attitude perfectly suited to succeeding in the modern world
There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.
If you think about the class-size puzzle this way, then what seems baffling starts to make a little more sense.
I'm convinced that ideas and behaviors and new products move through a population very much like a disease does.
Movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Off to the side were dozens of keypunch machines - what passed in those days for computer terminals.
We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.
Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.
Epidemics are sensitive to the conditions and circumstances of the times and places in which they occur.
Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.
An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.
As human beings we are a lot more sophisticated about each other than we are about the abstract world.
It would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.
Performance ought to improve with experience, and pressure is an obstacle that the diligent can overcome.
Occasions when you can change your mind should be cherished, because they mean you're smarter than you were before.
That the best students from mediocre schools were almost always a better bet than good students from the very best schools.
Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.
General intelligence and practical intelligence are "orthogonal": the presence of one doesn't imply the presence of the other.
The point about Connectors is that by having a foot in so many different worlds, they have the effect of bringing them all together.
All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated.
The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom.
Outliers are those who have been given opportunities - and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.
I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk.
Flom had the same experience ... He didn't triumph over adversity. Instead, what started out as adversity ended up being an opportunity.
To make sense of social epidemics, we must first understand that human communication has its own set of very unusual and counterintuitive rules.
You can't concentrate on doing anything if you are thinking, What's gonna happen if it doesn't go right?
Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.
He was an underdog and a misfit, and that gave him the freedom to try things no one else even dreamt of.
There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.
I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
I think when one's working, one works between absolute confidence and absolute doubt, and I got a huge dallop of each.
A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading.
If you're skinny and you can't play hockey in Canada, you aren't left with a lot of options. I was left with running.
A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
It's as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani.
You master mathematics if you are willing to try. That's what Schoenfeld attempts to teach his students.
We overlook just how large a role we all play
and by 'we' I mean society
in determining who makes it and who doesn't.
and by 'we' I mean society
in determining who makes it and who doesn't.
From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate.
We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.
But sometimes genius is anything but rarefied; sometimes it's just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen. (p313)
That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.