“ Greenberg wanted to give his pilots an alternate identity. Their problem was that they were trapped in roles dictated by the heavy weight of their country's cultural legacy. They needed an opportunity… Malcolm Gladwell
“ Eric Hanushek, an economist at Stanford, estimates that the students of a very bad teacher will learn, on average, half a year’s worth of material in one school year. The students in the class of a ve… Malcolm Gladwell
“ Anyone who has ever scanned the bookshelves of a new girlfriend or boyfriend- or peeked inside his or her medicine cabinet- understands this implicitly; you can learn as much - or more - from one glan… Malcolm Gladwell
“ A vervet, in other words, is very good at processing certain kinds of vervetish information, but not so good at processing other kinds of information. Malcolm Gladwell
“ Being able to act intelligently and instinctively in the moment is possible only after a long and rigorous of education and experience Malcolm Gladwell
“ You don’t start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it’s the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world. Malcolm Gladwell
“ When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision… Malcolm Gladwell
“ Western communication has what linguists call a transmitter orientation--that is, it is considered the responsibility of the speaker to communicate ideas clearly and unambiguously. ...within a Western… Malcolm Gladwell
“ We have, I think, a very rigid and limited definition of what an advantage is. We think of things as helpful that actually aren’t and think of other things as unhelpful that in reality leave us strong… Malcolm Gladwell
“ There were clear differences in how the young men responded to being called a bad name. For some, the insult changed their behavior. For some it didn’t. The deciding factor in how they reacted wasn’t… Malcolm Gladwell
“ The sense of possibility so necessary for success comes not just from inside us or from our parents. It comes from our time: from the particular opportunities that our particular place in history pres… Malcolm Gladwell
“ The music critic Harold Schonberg goes further: Mozart, he argues, actually developed late, since he didn’t produce his greatest work until he had been composing for more than twenty years. Malcolm Gladwell
“ Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds. Malcolm Gladwell
“ Our unconscious thinking is, in one critical respect, no different from our conscious thinking: in both, we are able to develop our rapid decision making with training and experience. Malcolm Gladwell
“ It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one—not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses — ever makes it alone. Malcolm Gladwell
“ It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success. Malcolm Gladwell
“ It is a strange thing, isn’t it, to have an educational philosophy that thinks of the other students in the classroom with your child as competitors for the attention of the teacher and not allies in… Malcolm Gladwell
“ If you make a decision about who is good and who is not good at an early age; if you separate the talented from the untalented; and if you provide the talented with a superior experience, then you’re… Malcolm Gladwell
“ If we want to, say, develop schools in disadvantaged communities that can successfully counteract the poisonous atmosphere of their surrounding neighborhoods, this tells us that we’re probably better… Malcolm Gladwell
“ Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade...It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into some… Malcolm Gladwell
