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“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig. (150)”

Malcolm Gladwell

Source: Outliers: The Story of Success

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

Malcolm Gladwell

Source: Outliers: The Story of Success

“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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Source: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

“We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.”

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Source: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

“Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.”

Malcolm Gladwell

Source: Outliers: The Story of Success

“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.”

Malcolm Gladwell

Source: Outliers: The Story of Success

“… If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)”

Malcolm Gladwell

Source: Outliers: The Story of Success

“It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.”

Malcolm Gladwell

Source: Outliers: The Story of Success

“The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.”

Malcolm Gladwell

Source: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

“In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.”

Malcolm Gladwell

Source: Outliers: The Story of Success

“Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.”

Malcolm Gladwell

Source: What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures

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

Malcolm Gladwell

Source: Outliers: The Story of Success

“Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.”

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Source: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

“To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.”

Malcolm Gladwell

Source: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

“….. it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.”

Malcolm Gladwell

“Emotion is contagious.”

Malcolm Gladwell

Source: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

“In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.”

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Source: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

“Courage is not something that you already have that makes you brave when the tough times start. Courage is what you earn when you’ve been through the tough times and you discover they aren’t so tough after all.”

Malcolm Gladwell

Source: David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants