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Success Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell
- The hope with Tipping Point was it would help the reader understand that real change was possible. With Blink, I wanted to get people to…
- The answer is that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare…
- Nobody accomplishes success by themselves.
- Success has to do with deliberate practice. Practice must be focused, determined, and in an environment where there's feedback.
- We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an…
- The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.
- Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.
- The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.
- Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.
- Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.
- I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing....It is only by asking where…
- ..... it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.
- To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success--the fortunate birth dates and…
- Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he…
- It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further…
- In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.
- Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has…
- In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.
- Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability…
- The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best…
- Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are products of history…
- Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to…
- Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.
- We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and…
- It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being…
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- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. — Aristotle
- I love recording music. — J. J. Abrams
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it. — Richard Bach
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to… — Karen Armstrong
- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong
- Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind… — Mary Kay Ash