Adam Grant Quotes
To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
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We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
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You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.
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A lot of times people feel a little apprehensive about suggesting to actually meet in person. One of the reasons that can be hard is people think they have to propose something super novel.
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Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.
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I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.
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I've done loads of things people have never seen - dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush - and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.
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South Africans are caring, compassionate and loving people.
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We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
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In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone.
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I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.
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The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.
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I believe a true Hindu in India could never have endorsed the killing of the Mahatma.
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You have got to clean your own house first before you tell other people that they aren't doing it right.
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I would really love to work with Clint Eastwood.
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People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
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England gave me a chance. It's a very individual country where people have a personal style; they don't all follow a trend. The subtlety and wit of England is incredible, and they are very creative.
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With the beginning of a great & compassionate love, comes the growth of one's heart, and with that, a profound inner change. The way to opening the mind is often first through the heart. And once is the mind & heart are open, so many things become possible.
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The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
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It's strange that those we miss the mostAre those we take for granted.
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To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
