Malcolm Gladwell: Making

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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

Dance

“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.”

Malcolm Gladwell book Blink

Source: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Understanding , Knowledge , Decision

“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

Money , Teachers , Happiness

“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

Thinking

“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

Family

“Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.”

Malcolm Gladwell
Thinking , Decision , Success

“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

Courageous , Courage , Time

“We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't.”

Malcolm Gladwell

Source: Outliers: The Story of Success

“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

Source: Outliers: The Story of Success

People , Sense , Success

“There is a simple way to package information that, under the right circumstances, can make it irresistible. All you have to do is find it.”

Malcolm Gladwell

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

Way

“It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one—not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses — ever makes it alone.”

Malcolm Gladwell

Source: Outliers: The Story of Success

Way , Star

“No one-not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses-ever makes it alone”

Malcolm Gladwell

Source: Outliers: The Story of Success

Star

“understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled.”

Malcolm Gladwell book Blink

Source: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

People , Forgiveness , Understanding , Nature

“We spend a lot of time thinking about the ways that prestige and resources and belonging to elite institutions make us better off. We don’t spend enough time thinking about the ways in which those kinds of material advantages limit our options.”

Malcolm Gladwell

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

Way , Thinking , Time

“What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.”

Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell, in Cheryl Glenn, et al Harbrace Essentials http://books.google.co.in/books?id=WWgIAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT165, Cengage Learning, 1 January 2011, p. 165

Children , Books , Thinking , Time

“If you make a great number of predictions, the ones that were wrong will soon be forgotten, and the ones that turn out to be true will make you famous.”

Malcolm Gladwell

Dangerous Minds: Criminal profiling made easy., Malcolm Gladwell, 2007-11-12, The New Yorker, 2008-01-01 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/11/12/071112fa_fact_gladwell,