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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• 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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  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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Sometimes the most modest changes can bring about enormous effects.

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  Sometimes, Enormous, Modest

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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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• Choking is about thinking too much. Panic is about thinking too little. Choking is about loss of instinct. Panic is reversion to instinct. They may look the same, but they are worlds apart.

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  Loss, Thinking, Looks

  "The Art of Failure" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.newyorker.com. August 21, 2000.

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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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• 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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• We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.

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  Needs, Looks, Subtle

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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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• No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.

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  Success, Business, Years

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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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• 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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• Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.

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  Historical, Environmental, Individual Talent

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

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  Teacher, Real, Teaching

  Malcolm Gladwell (2007). “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”, p.40, 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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• Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

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  Success, Hard Work, Passion

  "Outliers". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, Book by Malcolm Gladwell.

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

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  Opportunity, Presence Of Mind, Given

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