Malcolm Gladwell Quotes

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Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.

Malcolm Gladwell

Inspirational, Motivational, Morning

Malcolm Gladwell (2008). “Outliers: The Story of Success”, p.31, Hachette UK

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It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.

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Successful, Hard, Dislike

"Malcolm Gladwell Shares The Single Most Important Factor Of A Person's Success" by Jenna Goudreau, www.businessinsider.com. October 8, 2014.

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Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard.

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Hard Work, Persistence, Function

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If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.

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Thinking, Needs, Fixing

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That's your responsibility as a person, as a human being - to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

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Responsibility, Thinking, Bases

"Malcolm Gladwell on Criticism, Tolerance, and Changing Your Mind" by Maria Popova, www.brainpickings.org.

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Instead of thinking about talent as something that you acquire, talent should be thought of as something that you develop.

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Thinking, Talent, Should

"Secrets of their success". Interview with Jennifer Reingold, archive.fortune.com. November 19, 2008.

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The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

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Leadership, Writing, Creativity

"The Tweaker" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.newyorker.com. November 14, 2011.

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It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient you are the more valuable you'll be.

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Hours, Masters, Valuable

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Success has to do with deliberate practice. Practice must be focused, determined, and in an environment where there's feedback.

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Practice, Determined, Environment

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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.

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Motivational, Success, People

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If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

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Thinking, Bases, Ifs

"Malcolm Gladwell on Criticism, Tolerance, and Changing Your Mind" by Maria Popova, www.brainpickings.org.

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Change your mind about something significant every day.

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Mind, Significant, Changing Your Mind

FaceBook post by Malcolm Gladwell from Jul 31, 2014

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Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen.

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Expertise, Happens, Noticing

Malcolm Gladwell (2007). “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”, p.68, Hachette UK

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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.

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Success, Swimming, Keys

"Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, January 11, 2005.

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The successful are those who have been given opportunities.

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Successful, Opportunity, Presence Of Mind

"Outliers". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, www.sfgate.com. November 18, 2008.

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Sometimes the most modest changes can bring about enormous effects.

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Sometimes, Enormous, Modest

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You can't concentrate on doing anything if you are thinking, “What's gonna happen if it doesn't go right?

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Thinking, Happens, Ifs

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People are experience-rich and theory-poor.

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People, Experience, Rich

"The man who can't stop thinking" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2008.

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Nobody accomplishes success by themselves.

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Accomplish

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

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Beautiful, Struggle, World

"RD Interview: Malcolm Gladwell Explains the Truth About Underdogs" by Barbara O'Dair, www.rd.com.

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We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't.

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Mean, Play, Roles

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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.

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People, Stories, World

Malcolm Gladwell (2009). “What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures”, p.6, Hachette UK

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

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Challenges, Conventions, Radical

Malcolm Gladwell (2013). “David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants”, p.85, Hachette UK

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

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Business, Ideas, Stories

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The difference isn't resources, it's attitude.

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Attitude, Differences, Resources

FaceBook post by Malcolm Gladwell from Oct 09, 2014

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