

“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

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

“It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.”
― Never Let Me Go
― Never Let Me Go

“It's an entire world of just 64 squares. I feel safe in it. I can control it; I can dominate it. And it's predictable. So, if I get hurt, I only have myself to blame.”
― The Queen's Gambit
― The Queen's Gambit

“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
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