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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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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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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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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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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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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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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Most of what you see now emphasizes animals being dangerous to humans.
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It's a long old road, but I know I'm gonna find the end.
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Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they're not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes.
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We have to remain vigilant and loud and stay consistently engaged with our representatives and the political process every single day, on both a macro and micro level.
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If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.
