Adam Grant Quotes
If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.Adam Grant
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
Dan Deacon -
I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.
Candace Parker -
There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
Ira Sachs -
Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
Umberto Eco -
I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
Sam Altman -
You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
Beau Willimon
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There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
J. J. Watt -
If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
Zooey Deschanel -
There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
Hanoi Hannah -
I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
Kara Swisher -
I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
Taya Kyle -
I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.
Barbara Corcoran
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
Zola Jesus -
I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
Abraham Verghese -
For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
Natalie Dormer -
Each time I told them I didn't kill my wife.
Sam Sheppard -
In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.
Tamsin Greig -
For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.
Mac Thornberry
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I equate inspiration with desire – the desire that moves us to be artists in the first place. To attempt to make a painting without this motivation is a waste of time.
Nita Engle -
There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
Patrick Swayze -
Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.
J. L. Austin -
I'd like my super power to be puns; I'd like to be great at puns: pun power. Then I could go on loads of panel shows and live off that forever.
Chris O'Dowd -
We get so obsessed with our body, but when you have cancer, you forget your mind and your soul and your relationships are all affected. We will continue to build on and create more resources on topics like, 'How do you talk about cancer?'
Yael Cohen -
If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.
Adam Grant