Malcolm Gladwell Differences Quotations

It's just strange to think that so much of our enjoyment from sports comes from the elevation of arbitrary differences.

I've always been baffled by how much we over-rate the statistically insignificant differences that separate competitors at the top end of the distribution.

The Rule of 150 says that congregants of a rapidly expanding church, or the members of a social club, or anyone in a group activity banking on the epidemic spread of shared ideals needs to be particularly cognizant of the perils of the bigness. Crossing the 150 line is a small change that can make a big difference.

The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom.

The difference isn't resources, it's attitude.

The 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.