51 Malcolm Gladwell Quotes for You to Enjoy

Malcolm Gladwell

Canadian Author

Born: Sep 3, 1963

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The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable. Malcolm Gladwell

What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation. Malcolm Gladwell

Time You Book Judge Better Before Believe Think Gathering Our Spending Possible Tell Haste Deliberation Better Off Look Leap Makes Always Cover Off Stop Children Information Much Waste

There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice. Malcolm Gladwell

Justice World Illusion Important Everything Says Ourselves Some Idea Fairness Very Just Happen Psychology Which Us Convince Creates Theory Reason Elemental Things Things Happen

I remember as a kid watching one of the Olympic games, and I was cheering for a big track athlete. He was the favorite to win, and he lost. I realized in that moment the pain he felt was so much greater than the pain that those who never thought they were going to win would have felt had they lost. Malcolm Gladwell

Win Remember Thought Big Lost Pain Kid Those Favorite Would Athlete Never Had He Cheering Track Greater Felt Were Than Going Realized Much Games Moment Who Watching Olympic Olympic Games

Shallow communities are relatively easy to build. Malcolm Gladwell

Build Relatively Easy Shallow Communities

It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do. Malcolm Gladwell

Find Someone Very Dislikes Successful Hard

There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day. Malcolm Gladwell

Time Day Knowledge Learning People World Sometimes Light Brilliant Live Trapped Extraordinary Incredibly Tremendous Our Way Our Lives Thoughtful Thoughtful People Examine Sees Never Taken Academia Been Gets Where Really Body Who Lives Level Profound Numbers

You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly people who want to help others optimize their physical and psychological health, and then have them run a claims-processing operation for insurance companies. Malcolm Gladwell

Health You People School Help Others Others Those Run Physical Someone Particularly Operation Insurance Insurance Companies Years Train Optimize Want Psychological Them Then Help Who Companies Residency Medical Medical School

I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling. Malcolm Gladwell

Research Ways Academic Look Am Story-Telling

If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening. Malcolm Gladwell

You Gift Listening Reading Take Create Away

A runner needs not just to be skinny but - more specifically - to have skinny calves and ankles, because every extra pound carried on your extremities costs more than a pound carried on your torso. That's why shaving even a few ounces off a pair of running shoes can have a significant effect. Malcolm Gladwell

Needs Shoes Few Every Extra Carried Significant Runner Running More Costs Pound Ankles Shaving Because Effect Off Than Just Your Skinny Even Pair Why Specifically

I don't think I will ever write about politics or foreign policy. I feel like there is so much good writing in those areas that I have little to add. I also like to steer clear of writing about people whom I do not personally like. Malcolm Gladwell

Politics Good People Writing Will Think Add Those About Area Steer Write Clear Good Writing Feel Like Also Policy Foreign Foreign Policy Little Personally Much Whom Ever

You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first. Malcolm Gladwell

We should be firing bad teachers. Malcolm Gladwell

Bad Firing Should Teachers

Take the great example of the four-minute mile. One guy breaks it, then all of a sudden everyone breaks it. And they break it in such a short period of time that it can't be because they were training harder. It's purely that it was a psychological barrier, and someone had to show them that they could do it. Malcolm Gladwell

Time Great Training Example Everyone Great Example Purely Someone Guy Could Take Had Period Because Were Short Short Period Break Psychological Breaks Them Then Mile Show Barrier Sudden Harder

When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake. Malcolm Gladwell

You Sports Nothing About Mischief Write Allowed Stake Engage

As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid. Malcolm Gladwell

Best Mindset Unafraid Writer

People in great institutions are occasionally credulous. Malcolm Gladwell

Great People Institutions Occasionally Credulous

Countless religious innovators over the years have played the game of establishing an identity for themselves by accentuating their otherness. Malcolm Gladwell

Game Innovators Religious Countless Over Identity Years Establishing Themselves Played

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

Best Problem Impossible Will Example Down About Fact League Major Major League Major League Baseball Steroids Talking How Still Crack Baseball Media

So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field. Malcolm Gladwell

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