Quotes from Malcolm Gladwell

los que están en la misma cumbre no es que trabajen un poco o bastante más que todos los demás. Trabajan mucho, mucho más.

I believed in you always until I couldn't anymore. Isn't that an almost perfect statement of default to truth?

O sucesso é uma combinação de talento e preparação. O problema com essa forma de pensar é que, quanto mais a fundo os psicólogos analisam as carreiras dos talentosos, menor parece o papel desempenhado pelo talento e maior se mostra a importância da preparação.

People have too much faith in large organizations," he said. "They trust the accounting firms, which you should never trust because they're incompetent. On a best day they're incompetent, on a bad day they're crooked, and aiding and abetting the fraud, looking the other way.

The right question is: were there enough red flags to push you over the threshold of belief? If there weren't, then by defaulting to truth you were only being human.

Y?l?n baÅŸlar?nda doÄŸmuÅŸ bir çocuÄŸun sonlar?nda doÄŸmuÅŸ bir çocuÄŸun kar??s?nda baÅŸlang?çta sahip olduÄŸu küçük avantaj devam ediyor. Bu da çocuklar? y?llarca uzay?p giden baÅŸar? ve baÅŸar?s?zl?k, teÅŸvik etme ve cesaret k?rma modelleri içine hapsediyor.

Çünkü kimde varsa ona daha çok verilecek ve o bolluk içinde olacak. Ancak kimde yoksa kendisinde olan da elinden al?nacak. Daha da büyük baÅŸar?lara ulaÅŸacak olanlar, mevcut durumda baÅŸar?l? olanlard?r; diÄŸer bir deyiÅŸle, kendilerine özel f?rsatlar verilenlerdir.

lo que distingue a un intérprete virtuoso de otro mediocre es el esfuerzo que cada uno dedica a practicar. Y eso no es todo: los que están en la misma cumbre no es que trabajen un poco o bastante más que todos los demás. Trabajan mucho, mucho más. La

hostile takeovers should be allowed, two-thirds would have said no," Flom said. "Now, the vote would be almost unanimously yes." Companies

paesani of Roseto worked in the marble quarries in the surrounding hills, or cultivated the fields in the terraced valley below, walking four and five miles down

Contagiousness is in larger part a function of the messenger. Stickiness is primarily a property of the message.

Don't look at the stranger and jump to conclusions. Look at the stranger's world.

I found if I go to bed with a question on my mind, all I have to do is concentrate on the question before I go to sleep and I virtually always have the answer in the morning.

all that much. 3 Clear first described his ideas some years ago in a research paper entitled

the miracle of meaningful work.

more you invest in a set of beliefs—the greater the sacrifice you make in the service of that conviction—the more resistant you will be to evidence that suggests that you are mistaken. You don't give up. You double down.

Once someone has reached an IQ of somewhere around 120, having additional IQ points doesn't seem to translate into any measurable real-world advantage.

And that means when you confront the stranger, you have to ask yourself where and when you're confronting the stranger - because those two things powerfully influence your interpretation of who the stranger is.

Chamberlain would later

Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social, and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.

Herhangi bir ÅŸeyde dünya klasman?nda bir uzman olmay? saÄŸlayacak ustal?k düzeyine ulaÅŸmak için 10 bin saat pratik gerektiÄŸine iÅŸaret ediyor nörolog Daniel Levitin.

Every moment—every blink—is composed of a series of discrete moving parts, and every one of those parts offers an opportunity for intervention, for reform, and for correction.

Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.

Lareau calls the middle-class parenting style "concerted cultivation." It's an attempt to actively "foster and assess a child's talents, opinions and skills." Poor parents tend to follow, by contrast, a strategy of "accomplishment of natural growth." They see as their responsibility to care for their children but to let them grow and develop on their own.