Malcolm Gladwell

Gladwell, Malcolm Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Being Canadian

  2014, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Missionary

  2013, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Missionary

  2013, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen OnePeople: The Celebration

  2012, role: actor , character name: Author of 'The Tipping Point' 'Blink' and 'Outliers'
• Play in Full Screen The United States of Football

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen OnePeople: The Celebration

  2012, role: actor , character name: Journalist
• Play in Full Screen Bobby Fischer Against the World

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Blink

  2010, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Blink

  2010, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Runaway Virus

  2000, role: writer

Famous quotes by Malcolm Gladwell:

"It made me realize that I'd changed what I thought was a trivial aspect of who I was but it profoundly made a difference in the way the world perceived me. That was when I thought it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions."

"PEOPLE are experience rich and theory poor. People who are busy doing things ? as opposed to people who are busy sitting around, like me, reading and having coffee in coffee shops ? don't have opportunities to kind of collect and organize their experiences and make sense of them."

"It's the boiling point. It's the moment when the line starts to shoot straight upwards."

"the single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families."

"I suspect people who are indecisive are people who are far too enamored of analysis in all settings and are destroying their ability to make an instinctive judgment through over-analysis and that's dangerous,"

"If a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in charge. Soon, more windows will be broken, and the sense of anarchy will spread from the building to the street on which it faces, sending a signal that anything goes."

"That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop thinking and introspecting so much and do a little more acting."

"What do we tell our children? ... Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation."

"Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good."

"We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility."

"The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world."

"There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria."

"What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation."

"The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection."

"The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as "steroids.""

"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 fourth entrant into a field."

"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."

"Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs."

"Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?"

Malcolm Gladwell