Malcolm Gladwell Outliers Quotes

#1. I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now saying, and about the just and unjust.

Gorgias

#2. Don't have a mother,' he said. Not only had he no mother, but he had not the slightest desire to have one. He thought them very over-rated persons.

James M. Barrie

#3. People don't rise from nothing,

Malcolm Gladwell

#4. 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

#5. Cooper looked at the house and tried to fix it in his mind like a painting that would never leave him. But its beauty was so think and so real that it could never be just a painting

Gary D. Schmidt

#6. People, feelings, everything! Double! Two people in each person. There's also a person exactly the opposite of you, like the unseen part of you, somewhere in the world, and he waits in ambush.

Patricia Highsmith

#7. Outliers are those who have been given opportunities - and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.

Malcolm Gladwell

#8. Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all.

Earl Nightingale

#9. For a mile up and down the open fields before us the splendid lines of the veterans of the Army of Northern Virginia swept down upon us. Their bearing was magnificent. They came forward with a rush, and how our men did yell, 'Come on, Johnny, come on!'

Rufus Dawes

#10. 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

#11. But as is so often the case with outliers, buried in that setback was a golden opportunity.

Malcolm Gladwell

#12. There is no truer saying than "Revenge is a dish best eaten cold." It is so much sweeter for the waiting, and my only regret is that I cannot broadcast my triumph to the world.

Minette Walters

#13. The path to mastery involves being a white-belter till it becomes black from use.

Malti Bhojwani