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Track is full of the absolute nicest and most polite athletes in all of sports, and where does it get us?
Performance ought to improve with experience, and pressure is an obstacle that the diligent can overcome.
You can't concentrate on doing anything if you are thinking, “What's gonna happen if it doesn't go right?
A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet.
if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition
If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!
I became convinced that knowing lots of people was kind of skill, something that the diligent can overcome.
Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom.
Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart.
An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.
I should point out that I have a picture of Asbel Kiprop as the screensaver on my phone. Is that embarrassing?
There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.
An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.
I'm convinced that ideas and behaviors and new products move through a population very much like a disease does.
Acquaintances represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.
Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.
Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise.
All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
The people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.
The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.
People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency.
The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.
Courage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all.
In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.
Occasions when you can change your mind should be cherished, because they mean you're smarter than you were before.
The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
It's as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani.
Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.
If you're skinny and you can't play hockey in Canada, you aren't left with a lot of options. I was left with running.
Happiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference.
The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.
It's just strange to think that so much of our enjoyment from sports comes from the elevation of arbitrary differences.
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.
From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate.
Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
I grew up in southwestern Ontario in the heart of a Mennonite community. All my family are part of the Mennonite church.
Instead of thinking about talent as something that you acquire, talent should be thought of as something that you develop.
A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading.
If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.
Why are man hole covers around?" If you don't knwo the answer to the questions, you're not smart enough to work at microsoft
The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
Success has to do with deliberate practice. Practice must be focused, determined, and in an environment where there's feedback.
We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.
For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)