Malcolm Gladwell

“I don't golf. I've never golfed. I will never golf.”

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

“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.”

“That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.”

“A man employs the full power of the state in his grief and ends up plunging his government into a fruitless and costly experiment. A woman who walks away from the promise of power finds the strength to forgive - and saves her friendship, her marriage, and her sanity. The world is turned upside down. - Chapter 8”

“All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated.”

“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.”

“Whenever we have something that we are good at--something we care about--that experience and passion fundamentally change the nature of our first impressions.”

“Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.”

“An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.”

“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.”

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

“If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.”

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

“We have become obsessed with what is good about small classrooms and oblivious about what also can be good about large classes. It’s 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 the adventure of learning.”

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

“[Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot, and the way we think and act – and how well we think and act on the spur of the moment – are a lot more susceptible to outside influences than we realize.”

“I grew up in southwestern Ontario in the heart of a Mennonite community. All my family are part of the Mennonite church.”

“Shallow communities are relatively easy to build.”

“In the government's eyes, the Branch Davidians were a threat.”