Malcolm Gladwell Quotes - Page 2

A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.

Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.

Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Through embracing the diversity of humans beings, we will find a sure way to true happiness.

Incompetence annoys me. Overconfidence terrifies me.

The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

Nobody accomplishes success by themselves.

What is learned out of hard work and trial is inevitably more powerful than what is learned easily.

The people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge... It's whether our work fulfills us.

Achievement is talent plus preparation

You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.

The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.

It's not about how smart you are. It's about your values.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor.

Emotion is contagious.

When you're an underdog, you're forced to try things you would never otherwise have attempted.

The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.

The 10,000-hours rule says that if you look at any kind of cognitively complex field, from playing chess to being a neurosurgeon, we see this incredibly consistent pattern that you cannot be good at that unless you practice for 10,000 hours, which is roughly ten years, if you think about four hours a day.

If you play an audiotape of a yawn to blind people, they'll yawn too.

If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured.