Emily Lindbloom

“We are trained to think that what goes into any transaction or relationship or system must be directly related, in intensity and dimension, to what comes out.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

“Two people may arrive at a conversation with very different conversational patterns. But almost instantly they reach a common ground.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

“shake it off;”
― John Feinstein, The Rivalry: Mystery at the Army-Navy Game

“We have trouble estimating dramatic, exponential change. We cannot conceive that a piece of paper folded over 50 times could reach the sun. There are abrupt limits to the number of cognitive categories we can make and the number of people we can truly love and the number of acquaintances we can truly know. We throw up our hands at a problem phrased in an abstract way, but have no difficulty at all solving the same problem rephrased as a social dilemma. All of these things are expressions of the peculiarities of the human mind and heart, a refutation of the notion that the way we function and communicate and process information is straightforward and transparent. It is not. It is messy and opaque.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference