“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig. (150)”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
“Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
“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.”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
“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.”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
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