785 Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell

extreme visual clarity, tunnel vision, diminished sound, and the sense that time is slowing down. this is how the human body reacts to extreme stress.

We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.

We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.

A study at the University of Utah found that if you ask someone why he is friendly with someone else, he’ll say it is because he and his friend share similar attitudes. But if you actually quiz the two of them on their attitudes, you’ll find out that what they actually share is similar activities. We’re friends with the people we do things with, as much as we are with the people we resemble. We don’t seek out friends, in other words. We associate with the people who occupy the same small, physical spaces that we do.

Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.

our unconscious reactions come out of a locked room, and we can't look inside that room. but with experience we become expert at using our behavior and our training to interpret - and decode - what lies behind our snap judgment and first impressions.

Track is full of the absolute nicest and most polite athletes in all of sports, and where does it get us?

What is learned out of hard work and trial is inevitably more powerful than what is learned easily.

I've always been baffled by how much we over-rate the statistically insignificant differences that separate competitors at the top end of the distribution.