Malcolm Gladwell citáty

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„Úspěch, to je talent plus příprava.“

„Praxe není to, co děláte, když už jste dobří. Je to věc, kterou děláte, abyste se dobrými stali.“

“Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.”

“That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.”

“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.”

“We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.”

“The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.”

“Arousal leaves us mind-blind.”

“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.”

“A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading.”

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

“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.”

“As the playwright George Bernard Shaw once put it: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

“the 10,000hr rule is a definite key in success”

“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.”

“Working really hard is what successful people do…”

“being able to act intelligently and instinctively in the moment is possible only after a long and rigorous of education and experience”

“Any fool can spend money. But to earn it and save it and defer gratification—then you learn to value it differently.”

“Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen.”

“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.”

“… 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.”

“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.”

“You can’t concentrate on doing anything if you are thinking, “What’s gonna happen if it doesn’t go right?”

“Acquaintances, in sort, represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.”

“Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!”

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

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

“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.”

“Outliers are those who have been given opportunities—and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.”

“Look at the world around you. It may seem like an immovable, implacable place. It is not. With the slightest push—in just the right place—it can be tipped.”

“Achievement is talent plus preparation.”