"In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals.……" — Malcolm Gladwell
"In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does world-class neurosurgery."
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219 Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell
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[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet.
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The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and…
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Shortly after the birth control pill was approved for public distribution, one woman wrote to John Rock, its inventor, "You…
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The people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much…
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For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word…
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We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair
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The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who…
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Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I…
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Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and that's because they don't understand how complex and paradoxical our snap judgments…
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Living a long life, the conventional wisdom at the time said, depended to a great extent on who we were-that…
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Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen.
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I've been in auditions without screens, and I can assure you that I was prejudiced. I began to listen with…
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the…
— Aristotle
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Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out…
— Hank Azaria
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I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.
— Andrea Arnold
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person,…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
— Saint Augustine
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There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class…
— Alfred Austin
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I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm…
— Diane Ackerman
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose…
— Peter Ackroyd
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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