"The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness……" — Malcolm Gladwell

"The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty."

— Malcolm Gladwell

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219 Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell has 219 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet.
The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and…
Shortly after the birth control pill was approved for public distribution, one woman wrote to John Rock, its inventor, "You…
The people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much…
For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word…
We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair
The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who…
Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I…
Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and that's because they don't understand how complex and paradoxical our snap judgments…
Living a long life, the conventional wisdom at the time said, depended to a great extent on who we were-that…
Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen.
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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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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