Adam Grant Quotes

Saying no frees you up to say yes when it matters most.

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• The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Live
  • Me
  • Star

• I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Interesting
  • Ideas
  • Roles

• I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I think the really cool and compelling thing about math and physics is that it opens up entry to all these hypotheticals - or at least, it gives you the language to talk about them. But at the same time, if a scenario is completely disconnected from reality, it's not all that interesting.

  

  Randall Munroe
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  • Time
  • Reality

• I think when it comes to pop I'm past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it's getting worse, actually.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Think
  • Past
  • Curiosity

• I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Good
  • Choices
  • Son

• If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • Children
  • War
  • Fight

• I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Write
  • Interest
  • Watch

• When the dark days come, many wonderful moments, those will all seem dead and empty to you. It will take practice and even hard work to find the joy sometimes.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Moments

• There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.

  

  Zell Miller
  • Future
  • George Bush
  • Entrust

• Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Me
  • Famous
  • Disappointing

• I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Love
  • Like

• Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Why
  • Imagination
  • Become

• In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
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  • Food
  • Me

• I didn't know what was going through my mind.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Through

• It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Wish
  • Myself
  • Child

• In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Want
  • Crazy
  • Look

• When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Good
  • You
  • Angry

• In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Animal
  • Stranger
  • South Africa

• A will finds a way.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Way
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  • Will

• Well, it was a church person in the early days, Mahalia Jackson. And Rosetta Tharpe. These spiritual, very strong voices. I only knew that they were figures in the black race, recognizable and respected. But I must admit, I've always covered the songs of males. I haven't followed up on women or listened to that much women's music.

  

  Tina Turner Ike & Tina Turner
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  • Music
  • Women

• There's a creative vibe at U.C.B., and to maintain it, we can't pay people. If you pay, then you have to assign worth to shows, and then people will resent that.

  

  Matt Besser
  • People

• I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!

  

  Jonathan Coe
  • Time
  • Country
  • History

• Saying no frees you up to say yes when it matters most.

  

  Adam Grant
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