Quotes of Malcolm Gladwell - somelinesforyou

“ There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis. ”

- Malcolm Gladwell

“ Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking. ”

- Malcolm Gladwell

“ We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction. ”

- Malcolm Gladwell

“ Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. ”

- Malcolm Gladwell

“ If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. ”

- Malcolm Gladwell

“ Those three things autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying. ”

- Malcolm Gladwell

“ Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation ”

- Malcolm Gladwell

“ The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot. It makes a difference where and when we grew up. The culture we belong to and the legacies passed down by our forebears shape the patterns of our achievements in ways we cannot begin to imagine. It's not enough to ask what successful people are like, in other words. It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't. ”

- Malcolm Gladwell

“ Il successo è una funzione della perseveranza, della caparbietà e della propensione a impiegare ventidue minuti per trovare il senso a qualcosa che la maggior parte delle persone lascerebbe perdere dopo 30 secondi. ”

- Malcolm Gladwell

“ Why is the fact that each of us comes from a culture with its own distinctive mix of strengths and weaknesses, tendencies and predispositions, so difficult to acknowledge? Who we are cannot be separated from where we’re from—and when we ignore that fact, planes crash. ”

- Malcolm Gladwell

“ An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone. ”

- Malcolm Gladwell

“ The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as "steroids.". ”

- Malcolm Gladwell

“ Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking. ”

- Malcolm Gladwell

“ We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for. ”

- Malcolm Gladwell

“ An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but it's never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone. ”

- Malcolm Gladwell

“ We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction. ”

- Malcolm Gladwell

“ The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as "steroids.". ”

- Malcolm Gladwell

“ The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as "steroids.". ”

- Malcolm Gladwell

“ Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking. ”

- Malcolm Gladwell

“ Those with health insurance are overinsured and their behavior is distorted by moral hazard. Those without health insurance use their own money to make decisions based on an assessment of their needs. The insured are wasteful. The uninsured are prudent… ”

- Malcolm Gladwell

“ It is the new and different that is always most vulnerable to market research. ”

- Malcolm Gladwell

“ 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

“ Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking. ”

- Malcolm Gladwell

“ The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families. ”

- Malcolm Gladwell

“ 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

“ 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

“ The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process. ”

- Malcolm Gladwell

“ The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process. ”

- Malcolm Gladwell

“ There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis. ”

- Malcolm Gladwell

“ 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
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3