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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If the Big Bang is true, that means everything that came out of it, all of the particles, all of us, there is a scientific force that connects it all that we don't really know about.
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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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The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.
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Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.
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I'll take care of this. All you had to do was ask.
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When I started modeling, they tried to pay black models less than they paid Caucasian models. I turned down those jobs because I knew what I was worth.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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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.
