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
I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do just the opposite.
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JeanPaul Sartre
There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
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Alain De Botton
Girls, " their mother interjected, "you must both stop being strange - it is unattractive. And don't forget your hats. It would be absolutely the end for me if you two came down with freckles at a time like this.
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Anna Godbersen
Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence.
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Stefan Molyneux
They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.
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Kim Stanley Robinson
More Quotes By Malcolm Gladwell
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.
Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation
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...
The striking thing about Ericsson’s study is that he and his colleagues couldn’t find any ‘naturals, ’ musicians who floated effortlessly to the top while practicing a fraction of the time their peers did. Nor could they find any ‘grinds, ’ people who worked harder...
Hard world is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.
