Malcolm Gladwell Quotes About Judgment

Quotes about: Judgment

• Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Judging, Firsts, Judgment

• Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and that's because they don't understand how complex and paradoxical our snap judgments are. It's hard to measure new songs.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Song, Doors, Judging

  "Think fast" By Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. February 22, 2005.

• our unconscious reactions come out of a locked room, and we can't look inside that room. but with experience we become expert at using our behavior and our training to interpret - and decode - what lies behind our snap judgment and first impressions.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Lying, Training, First Impression

• 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

• I suspect people who are indecisive are people who are far too enamored of analysis in all settings and are destroying their ability to make an instinctive judgment through over-analysis
  and that's dangerous.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  People, Analysis, Judgment

  "Gladwell reaches his tipping point", www.cnn.com. March 29, 2005.

• There are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can offer a much better means of making sense of the world.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Stress, Mean, First Impression

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

• 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

  Decisions We Make, Quality, Needs

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