{"author":"Malcolm Gladwell","author_id":"Malcolm+Gladwell","total_quotes":69,"quotes":[{"text":"We form our impression not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally, by comparing ourselves to people in the same boat as ourselves.","author":"Malcolm Gladwell","tags":["comparisons","expectations","optimism","pessimism"],"id":4737,"author_id":"Malcolm+Gladwell"},{"text":"...Legitimacy is based on three things. First of all, the people who are asked to obey authority have to feel like they have a voice--that if they speak up, they will be heard. Second, the law has to be predictable. There has to be a reasonable expectation that the rules tomorrow are going to be roughly the same as the rules today. And third, the authority has to be fair. It can't treat one group differently from another.","author":"Malcolm Gladwell","tags":["ity","legitimacy","rules"],"id":6518,"author_id":"Malcolm+Gladwell"},{"text":"Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.'(p.115).","author":"Malcolm Gladwell","tags":["comedy","humor","improvisation","inspirational","motivational","nonfiction","science"],"id":9357,"author_id":"Malcolm+Gladwell"},{"text":". . . I'm not sure we always respect the mysteries of the locked door and the dangers of the storytelling problem. There are times when we demand an explanation when an explanation really isn't possible, and, as we'll explore in the upcoming chapters of this book, doing so can have serious consequences. 'After the O.J. Simpson verdict, one of the jurors appeared on TV and said with absolute conviction, 'Race had absolutely nothing to do with my decision,'' psychologist Joshua Aronson says. 'But how on earth could she know that? What my [and others] research . . . Show[s] is that people are ignorant of the things that affect their actions, yet they rarely feel ignorant. We need to accept our ignorance and say 'I don't know' more often.","author":"Malcolm Gladwell","tags":["implicit-bias","psychology","research","science","unconscious"],"id":9591,"author_id":"Malcolm+Gladwell"},{"text":"Much of what we consider valuable in our world arises out of (these) one-sided conflicts. Because the act of facing overwhelming odds, produces greatness and beauty.","author":"Malcolm Gladwell","tags":["conflict","underdogs"],"id":9613,"author_id":"Malcolm+Gladwell"},{"text":"Acquaintances, in sort, represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.","author":"Malcolm Gladwell","tags":["point","social","tipping"],"id":14567,"author_id":"Malcolm+Gladwell"},{"text":"It was not the privileged and the fortunate who took in the Jews in France. It was the marginal and damaged, which should remind us that there are real limits to what evil and misfortune can accomplish. If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening. If you bomb a city, you leave behind death and destruction. But you create a community of remote misses. If you take away a mother or a father, you cause suffering and despair. But one time in ten, out of that despair rises as indomitable force. You see the giant and the shepherd in the Valley of Elah and your eye is drawn to the man with sword and shield and the glittering armor. But so much of what is beautiful and valuable in the world comes from the shepherd, who has more strength and purpose than we ever imagine.","author":"Malcolm Gladwell","tags":["adversity","overcoming-adversity"],"id":17796,"author_id":"Malcolm+Gladwell"},{"text":"There is a set of advantages that have to do with material resources, and there is a set that have to do with the absence of material resources- and the reason underdogs win as often as they do is that the latter is sometimes every bit the equal of the former.","author":"Malcolm Gladwell","tags":["inspirational-attitude"],"id":26544,"author_id":"Malcolm+Gladwell"},{"text":"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.","author":"Malcolm Gladwell","tags":["classroom-size","education","learning","psychology","teaching"],"id":31533,"author_id":"Malcolm+Gladwell"},{"text":"Six degrees of separation doesn't mean that everyone is linked to everyone else in just six steps. It means that a very small number of people are linked to everyone else in a few steps, and the rest of us are linked to the world through those special few.","author":"Malcolm Gladwell","tags":["marketing","social-networking","social-networks","virality"],"id":42395,"author_id":"Malcolm+Gladwell"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":69,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}