Adam Grant Quotes
If you want to find out if someone's a taker, it's not actually that useful to know what they've accomplished. What you want to want to know is how they explain them.
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I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.
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We know that if you just were to take the drugs that you were supposed to take for diabetes or hypertension, just take it, as opposed to not take it, we could save $7,000, $3,000 per patient per year.
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One of my thoughts on the back nine was 'I don't know how Tiger has won 14 of these things,' I couldn't feel my legs on the back nine.
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I would love to do a period movie. I've always wanted to wear the corset, you know. It's a girl thing!
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I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.
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People love to be told what they know already.
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You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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The worst thing would be for a Canada to develop a Hollywood. This is an industry we are going to have to fight to defend. We have to compete now so productions stay here. We don't want entertainment to be like the steel industry.
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I want every Grammy.
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Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did.
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I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.
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Federal prosecutors want to indict Julian Assange for making public a great many classified documents.
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I want to be my own person.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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If the government and the infrastructure is there, the technology is there today to go as far as we want to go with this.
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I wanted to be a scientist, but I wanted to go into space. They are not mutually exclusive.
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I'm not very good at going to sleep, and that's probably my worst problem. I don't need much more than seven and a half hours, but I probably get six. I take all my problems to bed with me and fret. I can't switch off.
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I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'
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Executives need to understand the economic benefits of trust dividend, especially when the behavior is real, not artificially or superficially created as PR to manipulate trust.
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If you want to find out if someone's a taker, it's not actually that useful to know what they've accomplished. What you want to want to know is how they explain them.
