Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell

About Malcolm Gladwell:

Malcolm Timothy Gladwell is a Canadian journalist, bestselling author, and speaker. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He has written five books, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (2000), Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005), Outliers: The Story of Success (2008), What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures (2009), a collection of his journalism, and David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (2013). All five books were on The New York Times Best Seller list.
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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 cre...

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

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

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If you're skinny and you can't play hockey in Canada, you aren't left with a lot of options. I was left with running.

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

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If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!

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I try to be unafraid of making a fool of myself.

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Shallow communities are relatively easy to build.

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The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.

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Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.

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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 ...

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I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.

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I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.

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In cross-country skiing, athletes propel themselves over distances of ten and twenty miles - a physical challenge that places intense demands on the ability of their red blood cells to deliver oxygen to their muscles.

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We should be firing bad teachers.

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All my books are optimistic!

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We all assume that if you're weak and poor, you're never going to win. In fact, the real world is full of examples where the exact opposite happens, where the weak win and the strong screw up.

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When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to reduce economic anxiety and uncertainty.

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From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate.

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If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.

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I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.

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Author Bio

  • NameMalcolm Gladwell
  • Descriptionjournalist and science writer
  • BornSeptember 3, 1963
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionJournalist; Writer; Screenwriter
  • WorksThe Tipping Point; Blink; Outliers; What The Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
  • AwardsMember Of The Order Of Canada