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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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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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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My first time coming over to North America was to New York around Christmastime when I was 7. My mom was a flight attendant, and she got put on to the Trans-Atlantic route over Christmastime, so she brought the whole family.
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I was kind of the black sheep with the Disney kids. I was uninterested in making friends with most of them. I didn't really fall into 'the Disney mold.' I was more or less the kid hanging out with the crew members and got along with them far better.
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I want to be a Christian like Christ - loving and accepting of other people.
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If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
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Being introverted, it doesn't mean necessarily being shy or being afraid of public speaking; it just means that it's hard for me to interact with people for too long.
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I was the shyest kid. I'd never speak, only if I had to. Honestly.
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This is really America in therapy, people trying to get themselves together and be whole.
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If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.
