Quotes About Potential

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.

The sense of possibility so necessary for success comes not just from inside us or from our parents. It comes from our time: from the particular opportunities that our place in history presents us with.

Extraordinary achievement is less about talent than it is about opportunity.

We all know that successful people come from hardy seeds. But do we know enough about the sunlight

knowledge of a boy's IQ is of little help if you are faced with a formful of clever boys.

In the end, Tipping Points are a reaffirmation of the potential for change and the power of intelligent action. 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.

High-tech companies like Google or Microsoft carefully measure the cognitive abilities of prospective employees out of the same belief: they are convinced that those at the very top of the IQ scale have the greatest potential.

That the best students from mediocre schools were almost always a better bet than good students from the very best schools.

In the end, Tipping Points are the reaffirmation of the potential for change and the power of intelligent action.

That late bloomers bloom late because they simply aren't much good until late in their careers.

But what truly distinguishes their histories is not their extraordinary talent but their extraordinary opportunities.

The sense of possibility so necessary for success comes not just from inside us or from our parents. It comes from our time: from the particular opportunities that our particular place in history presents us with.

We have seen, Terman concluded, with more than a touch of disappointment, that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated.

far in Outliers, we've seen that extraordinary achievement is less about talent than it is about opportunity. In this chapter, I want to try to dig deeper into why that's the case by looking at the outlier in its purest and most distilled form—the genius. For years, we've taken our

could, however. When we say that people like Langan are

Malcolm Gladwell

our notion that it is the best and the brightest who effortlessly rise to the top is much too simplistic.

manuscript. Happily, they complied, and Outliers is infinitely

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The professional hockey player starts out a little bit better than his peers.

way the world of classical music picks its future virtuosos, or the way the world of ballet picks its future ballerinas, or the way our elite educational system picks its future scientists and intellectuals. You can't buy your way into Major Junior A hockey. It doesn't matter who your father or mother is, or who your grandfather was, or what business your family is in. Nor does it matter

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