Adam Grant Quotes
Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.
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My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
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Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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Asking what I'd do without Loopt is almost like asking what I would do if I didn't have a smartphone because the feature set has become the norm for me.
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'SNL' can be a stressful environment, and I am panicking constantly, but I guess I keep it pretty internal.
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Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.
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Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.
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Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.
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It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
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As Governor, I will demand that Colorado's government serves the taxpayers of Colorado, not special interest groups and government bureaucrats.
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There's a lot of comedy in 'The Guest,' so it was a bit more fun in a sense - it wasn't so heavy like 'It Follows.'
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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What a publication can do is to help people get a clearer picture without jumping to any rash conclusion. I'm very happy that the 'Post' can take the responsibility to report on China in a broader and deeper way. I believe the 'Post' must be fair to our readers. We should let our readers see China from more angles and perspectives.
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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If you look at 2009, why did the recovery happen? Recovery happened because somebody in the world's largest economy opened the tap: the U.S., followed by Europe and now Japan.
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And yet I think The White Cliffs of Dover one of my best films.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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Even the dark places are places. You're still somewhere.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.
