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Quotes About Exceptional

Sade never understood how exceptional he was in not feeling frightened of freedom.
~ Ronald Hayman
Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are products of history and community, of opportunity and legacy. Their success is not exceptional or mysterious. It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky--but all critical to making them who they are. The outlier, in the end, is not an outlier at all.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
out·li·er -,l()r noun 1: something that is situated away from or classed differently from
~ Malcolm Gladwell
his becoming a true outlier, we have to know a lot more about him than that.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
away from or classed differently from a main or related body 2: a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample 1.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
what's interesting about that list? Of the seventy-five names, an astonishing fourteen
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are products of history and community, of opportunity and legacy. Their success is not exceptional or mysterious. It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky — but all critical to making them who they are. The outlier, in the end, is not an outlier at all.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Ancak onlar?n hikayelerini gerçekten farkl? k?lan olaÄŸanüstü yetenekleri deÄŸil, kar??laÅŸt?klar? olaÄŸanüstü f?rsatlar.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
out·li·er -,l ( )r noun 1: something that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body 2: a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample
~ Malcolm Gladwell
But as is so often the case with outliers, buried in that setback was a golden opportunity.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
If you want to live an exceptional life, you must move beyond probability into the realm of possibility
~ Derric Yuh Ndim
if you are using probability arguments wit yourself, you are saying: "I want to live a life like everybody else!" By definition, an exceptional life is a life of low probability.
~ Derric Yuh Ndim
Average is common. Excellence is rare.
~ Izey Victoria Odiase
What makes you different is the exact thing that makes you irreplaceable.
~ Toni Sorenson
Aim to be the blue ribbon best. Have high standards and work to be exceptional. Develop yourself from practice to be a winner at what you do.
~ Mark F. LaMoure
If you want to be outstanding, stop meeting expectations, start exceeding them
~ Saji Ijiyemi
So it comes down to scarcity, one product or service having qualities you won't find everywhere or ideally, anywhere. It's the job of every brand to seek that out as their standard, their stamp.
~ David Brier
In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional... What a special case I was.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Often he quarreled, warred, drank, with a company of ordinary friends, spent evenings with ignorant people. She could not do this. She liked the exceptional, the extraordinary.
~ Anais Nin
C'est dans l'extraordinaire que je me sens le plus naturel.
~ Andre Gide
Having exceptional children exaggerates parental tendencies; those who would be bad parents become awful parents, but those who would be good parents often become extraordinary.
~ Andrew Solomon
You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.
~ Ann Brashares
Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy.
~ Sarah Dessen