Malcolm Gladwell: Quotes about the world

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“… If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)”

Malcolm Gladwell

Source: Outliers: The Story of Success

World , Imagination

“To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success--the fortunate birth dates and the happy accidents of history--with a society that provides opportunities for all.”

Malcolm Gladwell

Source: Outliers: The Story of Success

World , History , Birth , Success

“The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.”

Malcolm Gladwell

Source: Outliers: The Story of Success

People , World

“As the playwright George Bernard Shaw once put it: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

Malcolm Gladwell

Source: David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

World , Dependency

“We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don't matter at all.”

Malcolm Gladwell

Source: Outliers: The Story of Success

World , Idea , Success

“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
People , World

“Look at the world around you. It may seem like an immovable, implacable place. It is not. With the slightest push—in just the right place—it can be tipped.”

Malcolm Gladwell

Source: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

World

“The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.”

Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell in: Pamela Paul (2014), By the Book: : Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review. p. 238

Life , World

“You’re always, as a journalist, walking this fine line between faithfully representing the complexity of the thing you’re writing about and retaining your readers. The finest piece of journalism in the world is of no use if no one reads it. And getting people to read it requires compromises and sacrifices and all kinds of things. It is very hard to get it perfectly right. But I feel like over time, most good journalists, I think, do a pretty good job of balancing those things…”

Malcolm Gladwell

On the challenges of a journalist writing a book in “Malcolm Gladwell on Talking to Strangers and how podcasting changed his approach to writing” https://ew.com/books/2019/09/09/malcolm-gladwell-talking-to-strangers-interview/ in EW (2019 Sep 9)

Time , Reading , People , Thinking