Adam Grant Quotes
As more women 'lean in' and we collectively continue to fight sexism, there's another barrier to progress that hasn't been addressed: Many men who would like to see more women leaders are afraid to speak up about it.

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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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Sochi will be my third Olympics, and I'm coming into these games in a stronger position than I've been in years past.
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My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.
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My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.
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If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don't get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.
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When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.'
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I feel blessed to be having a really easy pregnancy.
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What I find very interesting is, we're not enthralled by the ancient world, and we've escaped all kinds of ancient preconceptions and assumptions and prejudices. But, nevertheless, we still make that connection between authoritative speech and male speech.
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God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.
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If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.
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Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.
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As more women 'lean in' and we collectively continue to fight sexism, there's another barrier to progress that hasn't been addressed: Many men who would like to see more women leaders are afraid to speak up about it.