“It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.” HardSuccessfulDislike Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard.” HardHard WorkFunctionPersistenceWillingnessOutliersHard Work SuccessHard Work MotivationalHard Work And SuccessHard Work And PersistenceDoggedness Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“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.” IfsGivingYearsHardProblemRunningKidsGivenGroupsMinutesGiving UpTestsMathSecondsGiven UpMath Problems Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“I know it sounds hard to believe, but habits laid down by our ancestors persist even after the conditions that created those habits have gone away.” KnowsBelieveHardSoundGoneConditionsHabitAncestorPersistHard To BelieveGone Away Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk.” ThinkingImportantEndsHardRiskHard WorkPersistenceThe End Of The DayWillingnessStubbornness Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.” PeopleHardEnoughSchoolSuccessAbilityMusicMusicianHarderPerformersOutliers Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.” IfsDoeHardSuccessPassionHard WorkPrisonSentencesOutliers Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“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.” IfsKindDoeHardMotivationalBusinessWifeHard WorkPrisonSentencesOutliers Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)” IfsWorldMindHardEnoughUseDesireImaginationHard WorkShapesOutliers Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot. It makes a difference where and when we grew up.” PeopleWorldWayLooksMayHardFactsOpportunityDifferencesHard WorkGrewKingsGrew UpAdvantageExtraordinaryLegacyMake SenseMaking A DifferenceBeneficiaries Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“Working really hard is what successful people do.” PeopleHardSuccessfulSuccessful PeopleOutliersWorking Really Hard Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“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.” PeopleGivingTwoHardMinutesHard WorkGiving UpFunctionTwentiesMake SensePersistenceThirtyWillingnessSecondsWork EthicTwenty TwoOutliersHard Work SuccessHard Work And SuccessHard Work And PersistenceDoggedness Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and that's because they don't understand how complex and paradoxical our snap judgments are. It's hard to measure new songs.” WayHardSongDoorsJudgingJudgmentComplexesRadioStationsSnapsParadoxicalRadio StationsNew SongsSnap Judgment Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“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.” YearsWellsLongHardSeemsHoursLevelsNumbersPracticeMagicGreatnessAmountThousandTenChessNineElitesLegendaryNine Years Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“What is learned out of hard work and trial is inevitably more powerful than what is learned easily.” HardPowerfulHard WorkTrials Author:Malcolm Gladwell
