You can't concentrate on doing anything if you are thinking, โWhat's gonna happen if it doesn't go right?
Malcolm GladwellYou can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
Malcolm GladwellSometimes [genius] is just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table.
Malcolm GladwellThe ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence.
Malcolm GladwellMy highest compliment is when someone comes up to me to say, "My 14-year-old daughter, or my 12-year-old son read your book and loved it." I cannot conceive of a greater compliment than that - to write something that as an adult I find satisfying, but also that manages to reach a curious 13- or 14-year-old.
Malcolm Gladwell