Malcolm Gladwell Quotes About Greatness

Quotes about: Greatness

• The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Beauty, Greatness, Odds

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

• To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fisher got to that elite level in less than that amount of time: it took him nine years.) And what's ten years? Well, it's roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice. Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Greatness, Years, Practice

• The sad thing about doping is how much it obscures our appreciation of greatness.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Appreciation, Greatness, Doping

  "Usain Bolt, a Collapse, and an Epic Beer Mile". Interview with Nicholas Thompson, www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2015.

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