Malcolm Gladwell Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Success, Swimming, Keys

  "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, January 11, 2005.

• understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  People, Decision, Understanding

• It is quite possible for people who have never met us and who have spent only twenty minutes thinking about us to come to a better understanding of who we are than people who have known us
  for years.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Thinking, Years, People

• So long as the stereotype is used as a way of understanding how to fix the problem as opposed to demonizing a people or writing them off, then I think it's OK.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Writing, Thinking, Long

  "The Rumpus Interview With Malcolm Gladwell". Interview with Stephen Elliott, therumpus.net. January 22, 2009.

• I worry that track is going to enter into an impossibly complicated stage, where our understanding of the complexities of human physiology - and our ability to accentuate and exploit them - is going to make the notion of pure competition impossible.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Track, Worry, Understanding

  "Usain Bolt, a Collapse, and an Epic Beer Mile". Interview with Nicholas Thompson, www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2015.

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