35 Kutipan Inspiratif Novel Outliers Karya Malcom Gladwell

1. “Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.”― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

2. “Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.”― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

3. “Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.”― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

4. “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. It’s the rich who get the biggest tax breaks. It’s the best students who get the best teaching and most attention. And it’s the biggest nine- and ten-year-olds who get the most coaching and practice. Success is the result of what sociologists like to call “accumulative advantage.”― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

5. “Achievement is talent plus preparation”― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

6. “No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.”― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

7. “It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.”― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

8. “In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.”― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

9. “I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing....It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.”― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

10. “Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.”― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

11. “We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't.”― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

12. “Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.”― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

13. “Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation”― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

14. “To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success--the fortunate birth dates and the happy accidents of history--with a society that provides opportunities for all.”― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

15. “Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.”― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

16. “My earliest memories of my father are of seeing him work at his desk and realizing that he was happy. I did not know it then, but that was one of the most precious gifts a father can give his child.”― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

17. “We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don't matter at all.”― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

18. “Working really hard is what successful people do...”― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

19. “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.”― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

20. “Outliers are those who have been given opportunities—and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.”― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

21. “No one-not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses-ever makes it alone”― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

22. “the tallest oak in the forest is the tallest not just because it grew from the hardiest acorn; it is the tallest also because no other trees blocked its sunlight, the soil around it was deep and rich, no rabbit chewed through its bark as a sapling, and no lumberjack cut it down before it matured.”― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

23. “general intelligence and practical intelligence are "orthogonal": the presence of one doesn't imply the presence of the other.”― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

24. “The poorer children were, to her mind, often better behaved, less whiny, more creative in making use of their own time, and have a well-developed sense of independence.”― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

25. “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.”― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

26. “Everything we have learned in Outliers says that success follows a predictable course. It is not the brightest who succeed. If it were, Chris Langan would be up there with Einstein. Nor is success simply the sum of the decisions and efforts we make on our own behalf. It is, rather, a gift. Outliers are those who have been given opportunities—and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.”― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

27. “The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot. It makes a difference where and when we grew up.”― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

28. “Living a long life, the conventional wisdom at the time said, depended to a great extent on who we were—that is, our genes. It depended on the decisions we made—on what we chose to eat, and how much we chose to exercise, and how effectively we were treated by the medical system. No one was used to thinking about health in terms of community.”― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

29. “We all know that successful people come from hardy seeds. But do we know enough about the sunlight”― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

30. “You master mathematics if you are willing to try. That’s what Schoenfeld attempts to teach his students.”― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

31. “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, Outliers: The Story of Success

32. “Successful people don’t do it alone. Where they come from matters. They’re products of particular places and environments.”― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

33. “Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.”― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

34. “the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That’s it. And what’s more, the people at the very top don’t work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.”― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

35. “knowledge of a boy's IQ is of little help if you are faced with a formful of clever boys.”― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success