Adam Grant Quotes
No one wants to hear everything that's in your head. They just want you to live up to what comes out of your mouth.Adam Grant
Quotes to Explore
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.
Jack Schwartz -
Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
If someone said, 'You can go live in this little town in Costa Rica for a couple of weeks and all you've got to do is sing for us,' I would do that. That's more exciting to me than the prospect of going on some national tour, where you're going to play arenas or sheds every night, because of the crushing repetition of that kind of line.
Jackson Browne -
Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.
Vanessa Paradis -
I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.
Dallas Roberts
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I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.
Uzo Aduba -
My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
Harland Williams -
I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
Victor Pinchuk -
I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.
Zadie Smith -
During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.
Nancy Pearcey -
I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.
Kate Beckinsale
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If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.
Lars von Trier -
I wouldn't want a manicure. I'm a man's man!
Ed Westwick -
I may look like a laid-back Hawaiian, but I'm 240 pounds, and when I'm walking around that kitchen, you don't want to get in my way.
Ippy Aiona -
I think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.
Wanda Sykes -
If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's history.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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I'm definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I've lived very happily in Britain.
Bill Bryson -
On the Internet, news is consumed a la carte. If someone shows up on the main page of a website and doesn't see anything of interest, they leave. This negatively impacts ad revenues. The solution on the Internet is to pack news websites full of things that will draw people in, regardless of whether they are news or not.
Drew Curtis -
Although I wrote a book about infidelity around the world, I ended up concluding that fidelity is quite a good idea.
Pamela Druckerman -
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
Alice James -
There is nothing quite like a freshly brewed pot of tea to get you going in the morning.
Phyllis Logan -
No one wants to hear everything that's in your head. They just want you to live up to what comes out of your mouth.
Adam Grant