Quotes About Achievement

BaÅŸka tür bir dünyada babam çok daha baÅŸar?l? olabilirdi.

one harder than the one before it, and IQ is calculated based

Malcolm Gladwell

It is, rather, a gift. Outliers are those who have been given opportunities—and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.

El éxito es talento más preparación. El problema de este punto de vista es que, cuanto más miran los psicólogos las carreras de los mejor dotados, menor les parece el papel del talento innato; y mayor el que desempeña la preparación.

Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung. We make rules that frustrate achievement. We prematurely write off people as failures. And, most of all, we become much too passive. 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.

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.

Malcolm Gladwell

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Everything we have learned in Outliers says that success follows a predictable course.

had a girl in this class," Corcoran said. "She was a horrible math student in fifth grade. She cried every Saturday when we did remedial stuff. Huge tears and tears." At the memory, Corcoran got a little emotional himself. He looked down. "She just e-mailed us a couple weeks ago. She's in college now. She's an accounting major.

if you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires.

from centuries past, as well as contemporary billionaires, such

What matters, in determining the likelihood of getting a science degree, is not just how smart you are. It's how smart you feel relative to the other people in your classroom.

Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung. We make rules that frustrate achievement. We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.

Malcolm Gladwell

el intelecto y el logro están muy lejos de correlacionarse perfectamente».

we put the stories of hockey players and the Beatles and

BaÅŸar? tesadüf deÄŸildir. Öngörülebilir ve güçlü bir dizi koÅŸul ve f?rsatlardan ortaya ç?kar.

Malcolm Gladwell

Yapt???m?z ÅŸeyde baÅŸar?l? olma yeteneÄŸimiz, nereden geldiÄŸimize güçlü biçimde baÄŸl?d?r.

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.

Twentieth-century man has created his own fantasies through science (...). What fantastic achievements have thereby been made possible in the way of moving faster, growing richer, communicating more rapidly, mastering illnesses, and altogether overcoming the hazards of our earthly existence. But all the achievements have led to a true nature of our being: in other words, an alienation from God. If it were possible to live without God, it would not be worth living at all.

In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.