Malcolm Gladwell Quotes About Giving Up

Quotes about: Giving Up

• Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Giving Up, Hard Work, Persistence

  "Outliers". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, November 18, 2008.

• Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Giving Up, Integrity, Mean

  "The interview: Malcolm Gladwell" by Rob Neyer, www.espn.com. Jun 4, 2002.

• 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.

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