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Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
Malcolm Gladwell
Canadian
Author
Born:
Sep 3
,
1963
Great
Me
People
Will
World
You
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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
People
Opportunities
Doors
Changes
Otherwise
Ways
Seemed
Fact
Fail
Underdog
Unthinkable
Opens
Permits
Often
Being
Might
Creates
Things
Enlightens
Appreciate
The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
Malcolm Gladwell
Fear
Valuable
Lose
Older
Way
Say
Correct
More
Only
Understand
Get
Being
Your
Things
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
Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.
Malcolm Gladwell
Time
Mind
Consistency
Changes
Virtues
Someone
Most
Overrated
His
Human
Who
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
Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.
Malcolm Gladwell
People
Worse
Having
Disability
Had
Truly
Off
Dyslexia
Many
Suffer
Lives
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
History
You
Facebook
Social Media
First
Jobs
Similarly
Never
He
Know
Look
Steve
Steve Jobs
Been
Want
Social
Media
Right
Second
Third
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 two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.
Malcolm Gladwell
Consider
Writers
Contemporary
Malcolm
Michael
Role
Role Models
Models
Whom
Two
Lewis
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
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
Aggressive
Down
Everyone
Would
Never
Catch
Abuse
Close
Going
Cut
Certain
Even
Program
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
You
Innovation
First
Field
Down
Thinking
Innovator
Kind
Something
Wrong
Conceive
Know
Around
Go
Line
Very
Person
Maybe
Process
Second
Fourth
Third
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