I'm convinced that ideas and behaviors and new products move through a population very much like a disease does. Malcolm Gladwell More Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell More Quotes From Malcolm Gladwell There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day. Malcolm Gladwell thoughtfullighttaken A fan is always an outsider. Most sportswriters are not, by this definition, fans. They capitalize on access to athletes. They spoke to Kobe last night, and Kobe says his finger is going to be fine. They spent three days fly-fishing with Brett Favre in March, and Brett says he's definitely coming back for another season. Malcolm Gladwell fishingathletenight Visionaries are limited by their visions. Malcolm Gladwell visionariesvision We tend to credit those who create an idea, not those who perfect it, forgetting that it is often only in the perfection of an idea that true progress occurs. Putting sixty-four transistors on a chip allowed people to dream of the future. Putting four million transistors on a chip actually gave them the future. Malcolm Gladwell dreampeopleideas That was it! The whole Redwood City philosophy was based on a willingness to try harder than anyone else. Malcolm Gladwell citiestryingphilosophy Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard. Malcolm Gladwell persistencefunctionhard-work 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 stereotypes associated with African Americans and academic achievement. If a white student from a prestigious private high school gets a higher SAT score than a black student from an inner-city school, is it because she’s truly a better student, or is it because to be white and to attend a prestigious high school is to be constantly primed with the idea of “smart”? Malcolm Gladwell smartsimpleschool If we think about emotion this way - as outside-in, not inside out - it is possible to understand how some people can have an enormous amount of influence over others. Some of us, after all, are very good at expressiing emotions and feelings, which means that we are far more emotionally contagious than the rest of us. Malcolm Gladwell meanpeoplethinking The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom. Malcolm Gladwell differencessinevil What must underlie successful epidemics, in the end, is a bedrock belief that change is possible, that people can radically transform their behavior or beliefs in the face of the right kind of impetus. Malcolm Gladwell epidemicssuccessfulpeople You need to have the ability to gracefully navigate the world. Malcolm Gladwell worldtravelneeds Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game? Malcolm Gladwell giving-upintegritymean Our unconscious is really good at quick decision-making - it often delivers a better answer than more deliberate and exhaustive ways of thinking. Malcolm Gladwell decisionanswersthinking Have you ever wondered... how religious movements get started? Usually, we think of them as a product of highly charismatic evangelists... but the spread of any new and contagious ideology also has a lot to do with the skillful use of group power. Malcolm Gladwell religiousreligionthinking If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments. Malcolm Gladwell decisions-we-makequalityneeds 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 take the enormous power of their intuition seriously. My wish with Outliers is that it makes us understand how much of a group project success is. When outliers become outliers it is not just because of their own efforts. It's because of the contributions of lots of different people and lots of different circumstances. Malcolm Gladwell effortrealpeople I have a new way of doing things, and I don’t care if you think I’m crazy. Malcolm Gladwell carecrazythinking If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money. Malcolm Gladwell educationallyingthinking Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time. Malcolm Gladwell consistencyvirtuemind The Law of the Few... says that one critical factor in epidemics is the nature of the messenger. Malcolm Gladwell messengersepidemicslaw
