Gail Nelson

“We sat down and tried to figure out what is the insult that would go to the heart of an eighteen-to-twenty-year-old’s brain,” Cohen says. “It didn’t take too long to come up with ‘asshole.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“Acker doesn’t let go of me. Not in the center of the storm and not when we breach the veil of the storm’s eye. Not when the boat feels like it’s going to be ripped apart at any moment and we’re going to go overboard. He never lessens his hold, not even when his arms shake. He never lets go.”
― Rachel Schneider, Metal Slinger

“social savvy is knowledge. It’s a set of skills that have to be learned. It has to come from somewhere, and the place where we seem to get these kinds of attitudes and skills is from our families.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“Show me the runway!” the pilot cried out, hoping desperately that he was close enough to Kennedy to somehow glide his crippled plane to a safe landing. But Kennedy was sixteen miles away.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success