Quotes About Outliers

#1. 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

#2. All statistics have outliers.

Nenia Campbell

#3. Against all evidence, I keep thinking the assholes are outliers.

James S.A. Corey

#4. When you delight the weird, the overlooked and the outliers, they are significantly more likely to talk about you and recommend you.

Seth

#5. The truly creative people tend to be outliers.

Nolan Bushnell

#6. when you read findings like the one above, and see that Jamal doesn't get the job, it's easy to shake your head at the few racist hiring managers who've tilted the odds against him. But the data we see in this chapter shows racism isn't a problem of outliers. It is pervasive.

Christian Rudder

#7. A strong intuition is much more powerful than a weal test. Normals teach us rules; outliers teach us laws. For every perfect medical experiment, there is a perfect human bias.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#8. We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream.

Tony Abbott

#9. 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

#10. You want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem.

Aaron Levie

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

Malcolm Gladwell

#12. The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#13. Self-proclaimed saviors and other outliers come and go throughout our political history. Occasionally, they're successful; most times, they're not. But the system has rebalanced toward the basic principles of tolerance, freedom and democracy that were set forth by the Founders.

David Ignatius

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

Malcolm Gladwell

#15. The more you read Scripture, the more you actually talk to God rather than think about fear.

Edward T. Welch

#16. If you commit yourself to the art of poetry, you commit yourself to the task of learning how to see, using words as elements of sight and their sounds as prisms. And to see means to see something worth all the agony of learning how to see.

Archibald MacLeish

#17. How did they find out?" Donnal inquired. "Did you set them on fire?"
"You know, it's so rare that I actually do that, and yet that's always the first question anyone asks me." -Senneth

Sharon Shinn

#18. You've never potty-trained a toddler, have you, Johanna? It's like working as a ball boy at Wimbledon, but with shit. And it goes on for months. With people crying at you.

Caitlin Moran

#19. We will reverse course on the heavy hand of regulation, discarding Dodd-Frank and any other regulations that advance a political agenda at the expense of jobs and investment on Main Street.

Rick Perry

#20. I get into each thing I do, to the point where nothing else matters. I guess I'm an extremist.

Neil Young

#21. It is important to be moral, but it is essential to be kind.

Debasish Mridha

#22. I'm very comfortable being naked. It's one of my favorite things to do.

Nadine Velazquez

#23. You know, it was once said of the first George Bush that he was born on third base and thought he'd hit a triple. Well, with the 22 million new jobs and the budget surplus Bill Clinton left behind, George W. Bush came into office on third base, and then he stole second.

Ted Strickland

#24. The storied self knows that self is not enough.

Richard Kearney

#25. People don't rise from nothing,

Malcolm Gladwell

#26. Kingdom praying and its efficacy is entirely a matter of the innermost heart's being totally open and honest before God. It is a matter of what we are saying with our whole being, moving with resolute intent and clarity of mind into the flow of God's action.

Dallas Willard