You can learn as much—or more—from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.

About Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Timothy Gladwell (born September 3, 1963) is a British-Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He has published eight books. He is also the host of the podcast Revisionist History and co-founder of the podcast company Pushkin Industries.

More quotations from Malcolm Gladwell

If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.

—Malcolm Gladwell

The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.

—Malcolm Gladwell

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

—Malcolm Gladwell

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Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

—Malcolm Gladwell

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There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.

—Malcolm Gladwell

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You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.