Adam Grant Quotes
If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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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.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
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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.
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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.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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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.
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Each time I told them I didn't kill my wife.
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In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.
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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.
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I'm not sure the oil producers are enjoying real growth. That troubles me. For experience has shown that oil can be more of a curse than a blessing. And not only in Africa.
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Microsoft and Dell have been building, implementing and operating massive cloud operations for years. Now we are extending our longstanding partnership to help usher in the new era of cloud computing, by giving customers and partners the ability to deploy the Windows Azure platform in their own datacenters.
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The only way I know how to deliver is to focus; some people can turn it on or off - I'd rather stay in character.
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I saw what religion did to people when I grew up, and I certainly didn't want any part of it. That turned me off it.
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So much of venture capital is pattern recognition.
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If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.
