Adam Grant Quotes

I spend a lot of my time trying to help leaders build cultures of productive givers.

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• I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.

  

  Aaron Johnson
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• I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
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• Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.

  

  Aaliyah
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• I found my style and how I like to do makeup from trying and failing and trying and failing again, and unfortunately, I had to do it publicly to figure it out.

  

  Kat Graham
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• With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
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• With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
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• Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.

  

  Taylor Negron
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• I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.

  

  Yves Behar
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• The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.

  

  Danica Patrick
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• I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
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• I would like to do something to help people and help the world.

  

  Daniel Bryan
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• Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.

  

  Fran Drescher
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• Once you become an Olympic champion, you are expected to win all the time.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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• When I started training to fight, it was more out of boredom than anything. I was looking for more things to do. I started with boxing, and my coaches told me I had a lot of potential and that I should consider making it a career. I was like, 'Whatever.' I was just 15 at the time, and I never imagined something like that.

  

  Paige VanZant
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• There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.

  

  Iman
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• I went to Rosemary Beach, Florida, for the first time in the spring of 2012.

  

  Abbi Glines
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• My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I wanted to learn to play guitar, so I got an acoustic and started taking lessons. I wanted to be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen.

  

  Oscar Isaac
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• I didn't want to be an actress at all, or famous even. I certainly enjoy acting now, absolutely. Time will tell whether or not I enjoy fame.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
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• In Indonesia, Qualcomm, in a joint project with Grameen Foundation, has provided a range of mobile phone-based services to individuals. This project facilitates the creation of businesses for those living at the bottom of the economic pyramid and, at the same time, extends telecommunication access to people who cannot afford a mobile phone.

  

  Peggy Johnson
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• I think getting people's focus, getting people's attention on anything has never been harder, because the media has done everything in its power to try and dissolve people's attention, shift it round absolutely all the time.

  

  David Hepworth
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• There are many days when I want to throw my computer out the window, when I tell myself I'd be better off selling shoes at the mall. But I always keep at it, because I have to. Writing is completely part of who I am. Even if I never published another book, I would keep at it - because it feeds my life and makes it richer.

  

  Paula McLain
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• Ronald Reagan helped me become a Republican.

  

  Bruce Rauner

• Think about a seed. Once it lands, it's stuck. It can't move to find better soil, moisture or sunlight. It's able to create every part of itself to grow and reproduce with the help of air, water and sun.

  

  David Suzuki
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• I spend a lot of my time trying to help leaders build cultures of productive givers.

  

  Adam Grant
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