Quotes About Dedication

Malcolm Gladwell

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.

that extra practice under his belt, he really is better, so he's the one more likely to make it to

manuscript. Happily, they complied, and Outliers is infinitely

And the Beatles didn't recoil in horror when they were told they had to play eight hours a night, seven days a week. They jumped at the chance. Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

The striking thing about Ericsson's study is that he and his colleagues couldn't find any "naturals," musicians who floated effortlessly to the top while practicing a fraction of the time

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No food without blood and sweat." "Farmers are busy; farmers are busy; if farmers weren't busy, where would grain to get through the winter come from?" "In winter, the lazy man freezes to death." "Don't depend on heaven for food, but on your own two hands carrying the load." "Useless to ask about the crops, it all depends on hard work and fertilizer." "If a man works hard, the land will not be lazy.

But a belief in work ought to be a thing of beauty.

If a man works hard, the land will not be lazy. (Chinese proverb)

Malcolm Gladwell

Hard work is a prison only if it does not have meaning

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.

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good

The idea that excellence at performing a complex task requires a critical minimum level of practice surfaces again and again in studies of expertise. In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand

The whole Redwood City philosophy was based on a willingness to try harder than anyone else.

Now let's do the same kind of analysis for people like

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

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.

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

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.

Malcolm Gladwell

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.

Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.