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.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.
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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.
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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.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.
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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.
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I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.
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If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.
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I wouldn't want a manicure. I'm a man's man!
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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.
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I think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll.
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I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.
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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.
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I'm definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I've lived very happily in Britain.
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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.
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Although I wrote a book about infidelity around the world, I ended up concluding that fidelity is quite a good idea.
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I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
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There is nothing quite like a freshly brewed pot of tea to get you going in the morning.
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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.
