Malcolm Gladwell Quotes

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

Malcolm Gladwell
Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.

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In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.

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We are not helpless in the face of our first impressions. They may bubble up from the unconscious - from behind a locked door inside of our brain - but just because something is outside of awareness doesn't mean it's outside of control.

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

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There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.

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The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

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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.

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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 be practiced and expressed and nurtured.

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Humans socialize in the largest groups of all primates because we are the only animals with brains large enough to handle the complexities of that social arrangement.

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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.

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Success has to do with deliberate practice. Practice must be focused, determined, and in an environment where there's feedback.

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Courage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all,

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There is a simple way to package information that, under the right circumstances, can make it irresistible.

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The poorer children were, to her mind, often better behaved, less whiny, more creative in making use of their own time, and have a well-developed sense of independence.

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Six degrees of separation doesn't mean that everyone is linked to everyone else in just six steps. It means that a very small number of people are linked to everyone else in a few steps, and the rest of us are linked to the world through those special few.

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If a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in charge. Soon, more windows will be broken, and the sense of anarchy will spread from the building to the street on which it faces, sending a signal that anything goes.

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The entire principle of a blind taste test was ridiculous. They shouldn't have cared so much that they were losing blind taste tests with old Coke, and we shouldn't at all be surprised that Pepsi's dominance in blind taste tests never translated to much in the real world. Why not? Because in the real world, no one ever drinks Coca-Cola blind.

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Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.

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The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.

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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.

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Achievement is talent plus preparation. The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play.

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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.

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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 then, but that was one of the most precious gifts a father can give his child.

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