Top 20 Gladwell Outliers Quotes
#1. If there is one thing I learned by reading Epstein's "The Sports Gene" it is that world-class athletes are, by definition, abnormal: that is, the kind of person capable of competing at that level is necessarily very different from the rest of us physiologically. They are outliers.
Malcolm Gladwell
#4. If you stare at someone long enough, you start to see their humanity.
Mark Andrus
#5. Bodies such as stars or black holes cannot just appear out of nothing. But a whole universe can.
Stephen Hawking
#6. From the Left comes the proposition that, given the slow economy, we should defer attending to the problem of mounting obligations - and the truly delusional idea that growing federal debt doesn't matter because we owe most of it to ourselves.
Steven Rattner
#7. I want people to think through issues. I'm just tired of blind alignment.
Joel Salatin
#8. When I saw how real virtual reality can be, and that we can replace human vision with virtual vision, this can be the ultimate platform.
Brendan Iribe
#9. The pencil-stroke is like cutting into the heart.
Gunter Brus
#10. But as is so often the case with outliers, buried in that setback was a golden opportunity.
Malcolm Gladwell
#11. The wealthiest place on the planet is the graveyard, because in the graveyard we will find inventions that we were never ever exposed to, ideas, dreams that never became a reality, hopes and aspirations that were never acted upon.
Les Brown
#12. The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave.
Mary C. Ames
#13. Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work with talented individuals and those with promise, regardless if they are men or women.
Carol Roth
#14. You're right, we both have been working on these films [Kung Fu Panda] forever and we know these characters so well that literally we will react to the same note in the same way. We will have the same answer most of the time.
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
#16. Outliers are those who have been given opportunities - and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.
Malcolm Gladwell
#17. All the outliers we've looked at so far were the beneficiaries of some kind of unusual opportunity. Lucky breaks don't seem like the exception with software billionaires and rock bands and star athletes. They seem like the rule.
Malcolm Gladwell
#18. I had a dream about you last night. I could fly. I was going to use this power to impress you, but you were too heavy to carry, so I won you over with my personality instead
Michael Summers
#20. My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.
Hans Hofmann
