Quotes from Malcolm Gladwell

Chris Langan, by contrast, had only the bleakness of Bozeman, and a home dominated by an angry, drunken stepfather. "[Jack] Langan did this to all of us," said Mark.

He watched David approach, first with scorn, then with surprise, and then with what can only have been horror—as it dawned on him that the battle he was expecting had suddenly changed shape.

You believe someone not because you have no doubts about them. Belief is not the absence of doubt. You believe someone because you don't have enough doubts about them.

Because we trust implicitly, spies go undetected, criminals roam free, and lives are damaged. But Levine's point is that the price of giving up on that strategy is much higher. If everyone on Wall Street behaved like Harry Markopolos, there would be no fraud on Wall Street—but the air would be so thick with suspicion and paranoia that there would also be no Wall Street.

You want your response to be the same for the easy things as for the harder things so that you don't reveal what's easy and what's hard by the way you answer.

View, where electronics hobbyists and tinkerers sold spare parts. Jobs came of age breathing the air of the very business he would later dominate. This paragraph from Accidental Millionaire, one of the many Jobs biographies, gives us a sense of

Você acredita em alguém não porque não tenha dúvidas a respeito da pessoa. A crença não é a ausência de dúvida. Você acredita em alguém porque não tem dúvidas suficientes a respeito.

In transplanting the paesani culture of southern Italy to the hills of eastern Pennsylvania, the Rosetans had created a powerful, protective social structure capable of insulating them from the pressures of the modern world.

Hardwork is aprison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert—in anything

Ancak onlar?n hikayelerini gerçekten farkl? k?lan olaÄŸanüstü yetenekleri deÄŸil, kar??laÅŸt?klar? olaÄŸanüstü f?rsatlar.

We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that—sometimes—we're better off that way.

The magician Ian Rowland, in his classic The Full Facts Book of Cold Reading

BaÅŸar? sadece kendi eserleri deÄŸil. Ä°çinde büyüdükleri dünyan?n bir ürünü.

Bir basketbol oyuncusu sadece yeterince uzun olmal? ve ayn? durum zeka için de geçerli. Zekan?n bir eÅŸiÄŸi var.

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. It's the rich who get the biggest tax breaks. It's the best students who get the best teaching and most attention. And it's the biggest nine-and ten-year-olds who get the most coaching and practice. Success is the result of what sociologists like to call accumulative advantage.

The name given to that one dramatic moment in an epidemic when everything can change all at once is the Tipping Point.

where winning cost us so much morally?

If anyone wants to start an epidemic, then-whether it is of shoes or behavior or a piece of software-he or she has to somehow employ Connectors, Mavens, and Salesmen in this very way: he or she has to find some person or some means to translate the message of the Innovators into something the rest of us can understand.

out·li·er -,l ( )r noun 1: something that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body 2: a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample

Most psychologists believe that nature—genetics—accounts for about half of the reason why we tend to act the way we do. His point is simply that there are certain times and places and conditions when much of that can be swept away, that there are instances where you can take normal people from good schools and happy families and good neighborhoods and powerfully affect their behavior merely by changing the immediate details of their situation. This

there is a reproducible correlation between the time required to pronounce numbers in a given language and the memory span of its speakers.

having someone you love express contempt toward you is so stressful that it begins to affect the functioning of your immune system.

We should also accept the limits of our ability to decipher strangers. In the interrogation of KSM, there were two sides. James Mitchell and his colleague Bruce Jessen were driven by the desire to make KSM talk. On the other side, Charles Morgan worried about the cost of forcing people to talk: what if in the act of coercing a prisoner to open up, you damaged his memories and made what he had to say less reliable? Morgan's more-modest expectations are a good model for the rest of us.