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"23 Malcolm Gladwell Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 3 September 1963. | Journalist | Author | Public speaker |

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

Practice Once Good Makes
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“We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.”

Example Dry Experience Limit
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“The only true way to listen is with your ears and your heart.”

True Listen Ears Heart
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“Some pretend to be rich, yet have nothing; others pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.”
Pretend Rich Poor Great
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“When we talk about analytic versus intuitive decision making, neither is good or bad. What is bad is if you use either of them in an inappropriate circumstance.”

Talk Analytic Versus Intuitive
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What is learned out of necessity is inevitably more powerful than the learning that comes easily.”
What Learned Necessity Inevitable
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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.”

Reward Complexity Autonomy Connection
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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.”

Work-hard Assert Mind Imagination
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“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.”

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

Truly-successful Decision-making Balance Deliberate
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Achievement is talent plus preparation.
Achievement Talent Plus Preparation
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No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.

Who Rise Year Fails
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Extraordinary achievement is less about talent than it is about opportunity.

Extraordinary Achievement Less Talent
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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.

Someone Best Friend Minimum
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“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning”
Hard-work Prison Sentence Meaning
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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.

First Impressions Generated Experiences
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Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.

Success Random-act Predictable Powerful
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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.

Success Function Doggedness Willingness
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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.

Value World Inhabit People
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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.

Spend Time Thinking Prestige
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The world we could have is so much richer than the world we have settled for.
World Have Much Richer
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There is a set of advantages that have to do with material resources, and there is a set that have to do with the absence of material resources- and the reason underdogs win as often as they do is that the latter is sometimes every bit the equal of the former.

Advantages Material Resources Set
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The poorer children were, to her mind, often better behaved, less whiny, more creative in making use of their own time, and have a well-developed sense of independence

Poorer Children Mind Better
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Malcolm Gladwell Quotes & Sayings