Television allows the audience to argue with the creator in a way you don't in a movie.
Malcolm GladwellIf there is one thing I learned by reading Epstein's "The Sports Gene" it is that world-class athletes are, by definition, abnormal: that is, the kind of person capable of competing at that level is necessarily very different from the rest of us physiologically. They are outliers.
Malcolm GladwellHappiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference.
Malcolm GladwellThere is a simple way to package information that, under the right circumstances, can make it irresistible. All you have to do is find it.
Malcolm GladwellThe conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people of the book." There is surely something to that. But it wasn't just the children of rabbis who went to law school. It was the children of garment workers. And their critical advantage in climbing the professional ladder wasn't the intellectual rigor you get from studying the Talmud. It was the practical intelligence and savvy you get from watching your father sell aprons on Hester Street.
Malcolm Gladwell