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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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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We want enough people adopting Bitcoin for a robust infrastructure. It's an act of patriotism. It gives the country a robust parallel system.
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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A carpenter is known by his chips.
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If I'm somebody that says the team is important and the players and coaches need to sacrifice and I then see an opportunity to help the football team and don't do it -- I would be going against the basic principal of what I preach.
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Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
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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.
