Adam Grant Quotes
Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.
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I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.
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My perspective was always being on a number one show doesn't mean anything if I'm not still working consistently at 40 to 50 and 60 years old.
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I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.
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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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I always separated sports and my personal life.
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One always wonders about roads not taken.
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My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.
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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
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Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno... I think he's one of the best hunting dogs in the world.
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I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.
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Yes, I mean, I used to be into the big bulk thing, and that's why my legs look like those of a cyclist instead of a shooter's, but I think there is a point to where too much is not a good thing. I think I try to lower my center of gravity by doing a lot of legs.
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In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
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Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.
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If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.
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It's not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.
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Cognitive neuroscience, and social theorists from Weber to Bourdieu, have recognized that humans act, most of the time, habitually, not reflectively. Both at intrastate and inter-states levels, habits play critical roles in mitigating uncertainty, providing a sense of order, and entrench patterns of cooperation or enmity.
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I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.
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Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.
