Where they come from matters. They're products of particular places and environments.
Malcolm GladwellInstead of thinking about talent as something that you acquire, talent should be thought of as something that you develop.
Malcolm GladwellWithout the New York Times, there is no blog community. They'd have nothing to blog about.
Malcolm GladwellWe tell ourselves that skill is the precious resource and effort is the commodity. It's the other way around. Effort can trump ability-relentl ess effort is in fact something rarer than the ability to engage in some finely tuned act of motor coordination.
Malcolm Gladwell