Adam Grant Quotes
The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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Part of America's greatness is its willingness to care for those who are truly in need. But those who defraud the system take money and resources away not only from American taxpayers but also from those who truly need help.
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In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.
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It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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My EP, 'Room 93,' was all about isolation - it was based on the idea of being in a hotel room and being totally alone with yourself or that other person.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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I'm so grateful that I was raised by a mother who really instilled in me that my moral compass and achievements all had to come from a real place that had nothing to do with my beauty or how I looked. That was very big for her.
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Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.
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I'm a storyteller.
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The numbers in women in rock 'n' roll and metal are pretty much growing a lot, which is a great thing.
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The sensate body possesses an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis
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The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.
