Blink Gladwell Quotes

#1. If we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition

Malcolm Gladwell

#2. The space elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing.

Arthur C. Clarke

#3. When I saw the kouros for the first time," he said, "I felt as though there was a glass between me and the work.

Malcolm Gladwell

#4. I've been in auditions without screens, and I can assure you that I was prejudiced. I began to listen with my eyes, and there is no way that your eyes don't affect your judgement. The only true way to listen is with your ears and your heart. (p.251)

Malcolm Gladwell

#5. Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances.

Helen Keller

#6. All beauty is but a shadow of the Beauty of the Most Beautiful. "Allah is Beautiful and loves beauty," said the Prophet.

Faraz Rabbani

#7. before a dream has a plot, characters, or setting, it gets assigned an emotion.

Sheenah Hankin

#8. The power of knowing, in that first two seconds, is not a gift given magically to a fortunate few. It is an ability that we can all cultivate for ourselves.

Malcolm Gladwell

#9. Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would cover her up with a stone, and in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.

Milan Kundera

#10. You were born an original, don't die a copy

John Mason Brown

#11. Huan was born and raised in the House of Aladon, and his family for eleven generations before him, yet even he could be a Listener.

Robert Jordan

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

Malcolm Gladwell

#13. There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe.

George Orwell