Malcolm Gladwell Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone first engages in hours of highly repetitive and structured practice--perfecting their shooting, dribbling, and passing and running plays over and over again--and agrees to play a carefully defined role on the court. This is the critical lesson of improve, too, and it is also a key to understanding a puzzle of Millennium Challenge: spontaneity isn't random.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Basketball, Running, Practice

  "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, books.google.ru. April 3, 2007.

• Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. If you let the test run for 15 minutes, the Japanese kids will not have given up. You have to take it away.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Running, Giving Up, Kids

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

• Sometimes constraints actually create success. Not being able to swim made me run. And running taught me the discipline I needed as a writer.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Running, Discipline, Swim

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