Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do. Malcolm Gladwell More Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell More Quotes From Malcolm Gladwell Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness. Malcolm Gladwell qualitygivingthinking Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action. Malcolm Gladwell degreesblockskills The biggest mistake we make is trying to square the way we feel about something today with the way we felt about it yesterday. You shouldn’t even bother doing it. You should just figure out the way you feel today and if it happens to comply with what you thought before, fine. If it contradicts it, whatever. Life goes on. Malcolm Gladwell squaresyesterdaymistake We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility. Malcolm Gladwell medicinephilosophymean 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. Malcolm Gladwell malariabillsworld Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone first engages in hours of highly repetitive and structured practice--perfecting their shooting, dribbling, and passing and running plays over and over again--and agrees to play a carefully defined role on the court. This is the critical lesson of improve, too, and it is also a key to understanding a puzzle of Millennium Challenge: spontaneity isn't random. Malcolm Gladwell basketballpracticerunning There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis. Malcolm Gladwell analysismonthseye [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, and the way we think and act – and how well we think and act on the spur of the moment – are a lot more susceptible to outside influences than we realize. Malcolm Gladwell spursresearchthinking The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that's the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968. If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today? Malcolm Gladwell teenagersuccessspring Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking. Malcolm Gladwell successinspirationalthinking You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face. Malcolm Gladwell new-girlfriendspacefaces 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 who do the actual work in the world. Malcolm Gladwell storiespeopleworld 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? Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head—even if in the end you conclude that someone else's head is not a place you'd really like to be. Malcolm Gladwell writinggivingthinking People are experience-rich and theory-poor. Malcolm Gladwell richexperiencepeople Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out. Malcolm Gladwell blinkintuitionsuccess There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them. Malcolm Gladwell tippingepidemicspeople We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken. Malcolm Gladwell subtlelooksneeds Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from. Malcolm Gladwell outlierswho-we-aresuccess 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 traits, and it only seems that way because of a glitch in the way our brains are organized. Character is more like a bundle of habits and tendencies and interests, loosely bound together and dependent, at certain times, on circumstance and context. Malcolm Gladwell braincharacterthinking The answer is that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts. Malcolm Gladwell tippingepidemicspeople
