Opportunity In Outliers Quotes & Sayings

And warns us to use life's beauty as it blooms. The thorn is spurned when the rose has dropped. — Ovid

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues. — Confucius

The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that's the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968. If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today? — Malcolm Gladwell

I simply write what I want, wish, long to write ... The state of human life and the god or demon within. The constant internal war that being alive can conjure. — Tanith Lee

The lowest strata are reproducing too fast. Therefore ... they must not have too easy access to relief or hospital treatment lest the removal of the last check on natural selection should make it too easy for children to be produced or to survive; long unemployment should be a ground for sterilisation. — Julian Huxley

There is no justice in love ... it is only the glimpse or parable of an incomprehensible reality ... the eternal breaking in on the the temporal. — Marilynne Robinson

If you want to be happy, make someone else happy. If you want to find the right person in your life, be the right person. If you want to see change in the world, become the change you want to see. — Deepak Chopra

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

But as is so often the case with outliers, buried in that setback was a golden opportunity. — Malcolm Gladwell

Deep within each one of us lies a garden. — Julie Moir Messervy

Your greatest area of leadership often comes out of your greatest area of pain and weakness. — Wayde Goodall

Can you imagine...the detrimental effect on your marriage prospects, to be found unchaperoned in a library with a dead vampire! — Gail Carriger

A student asked me recently why somebody always dies in my books. I said, because somebody is always dying in my life. — Chris Crutcher

You talk just like the grown-ups!
That made me a little ashamed. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery