QUOTES by Malcolm Gladwell
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Acquaintances, in sort, represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.
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...mediocre people find their way into positions of authority...because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are a good deal less rational than we think.
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You can’t concentrate on doing anything if you are thinking, “What’s gonna happen if it doesn’t go right?
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We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don't matter at all.
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You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.
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Being able to act intelligently and instinctively in the moment is possible only after a long and rigorous of education and experience
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It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success.
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The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.
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A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading.
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We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.
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That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.
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Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.
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There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.
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My earliest memories of my father are of seeing him work at his desk and realizing that he was happy. I did not know it then, but that was one of the most precious gifts a father can give his child.
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There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.
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When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.
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Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions . . . by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.
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If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured.
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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.
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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)
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Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.
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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.
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No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.
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..... it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.
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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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...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)
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In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.
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The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.
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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.
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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.
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