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

—Malcolm Gladwell

About Malcolm Gladwell

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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

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.

—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

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

—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

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

—Katharine Butler Hathaway

The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

—Bertrand Russell

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

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