Malcolm Gladwell Quotes

I think that you form the way that you act from others around you; it's a kind of an environmental thing.

In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the same biological, geographical, and social environment, and as determined by their past.

We are such a product of our upbringing and environment.

Genes cannot tell us how to catalogue or comprehend human diversity. Environments can, cultures can, geographies can, histories can.

Nations, like individuals, are largely the product of their environment; and many of their characteristics, their fears and their neuroses, as well as their abilities, are conditioned by the impressions of what we may call their early childhood.

For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by our surroundings.

People don't exist in a vacuum. They're a result of who raised them and who they love and who frustrates them.

You're molded by the period you were brought up in.

Your environment influences your mindset.

Environment is undoubtedly a secondary factor in the phenomena of life; it can modify in that it can help or hinder, but it can never create.

Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.

I really do believe in the influence of your surroundings.

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.

The genetics of autism are real, but there are also environmental triggers.

That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.

Thus the races, though alike in their physical response to climate, may possibly be different in their mental response because they have approached America by different paths.

Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

No matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with.

From a purely ethnological point of view, I was not a period-born Dada.

In soft regions are born soft men.

It's true that your environment influences how you write.

The striking differences between the long-term histories of peoples of the different continents have been due not to innate differences in the people themselves but to differences in their environments.

So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.

I think character is very much a product of where you live, who you are, what is happening in that time of your life, and I'm interested in those pressures, those forces. A political context, a social context, really determines if not who people are then how they treat one another and what they say, how they speak.