A Quote by Malcolm Gladwell

Performance ought to improve with experience, and pressure is an obstacle that the diligent can overcome.

Malcolm Gladwell

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Diligent Experience Improve Obstacle Ought Overcome Performance Pressure

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Malcolm Gladwell
Canadian - Author
Born: September 3, 1963

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The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance

Tim Ferriss

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

Woodrow Wilson

The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

Ryan Holiday

Pressure bursts pipes. I thank God for giving me peace of mind to overcome pressure. The difference between winning and losing is when pressure hits.

Evander Holyfield

Overcome obstacles one at a time: Sometimes the end goal becomes too daunting, so take things one step at a time and overcome each obstacle as you get to it.

Joy Mangano

The hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome in my life is losing my mom four years ago. I wouldn't even say that I've overcome it, really. I don't imagine that I ever will.

Annie Wersching

Nixon has enough to overcome in terms of his legacy and his political history. Now he has to overcome the in-fighting between his daughters. It's so sad. There's another obstacle for him to clear.

Monica Crowley

I became convinced that knowing lots of people was kind of skill, something that the diligent can overcome.

Malcolm Gladwell

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Greg Walloch

Overcoming sin, blessed though it surely is, is but the bare minimum of a believers experience. There is nothing astonishing in it. Not to overcome sin is what ought to astonish us.

Watchman Nee

Wherever indeed a right of property is infringed for the general good, if the nature of the case admits of compensation, it ought to be made; but if compensation be impracticable, that impracticability ought to be an obstacle to a clearly essential reform.