785 Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell

...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig. (150)

Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, a four-volume work so dense that its readers were evenly divided between those who understood it and thought it was brilliant and those who did not understand it and thought it was brilliant.

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

Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen.

The conviction that we know others better than they know us—and that we may have insights about them they lack (but not vice versa)—leads us to talk when we would do well to listen and to be less patient than we ought to be when others express the conviction that they are the ones who are misunderstood or judged unfairly. Pronin

But we need to remember that our definition of what is right is, as often as not, simply the way that people in positions of privilege close the door on those on the outside.

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

being able to act intelligently and instinctively in the moment is possible only after a long and rigorous of education and experience