Adam Grant Quotes
When you procrastinate, you're more likely to let your mind wander. That gives you a better chance of stumbling onto the unusual and spotting unexpected patterns.Adam Grant
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Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
Gary Bauer -
I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
Cameron Sinclair -
I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
Indira Gandhi -
I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
Iris Johansen -
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
N. Scott Momaday -
I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.
Maika Monroe
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I'm re-teaming with the producers of 'Twilight,' whom I love and who I have an amazing relationship with.
Taylor Lautner -
I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
R. Kelly -
Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
Barack Obama -
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
Hannah Arendt -
If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
Immanuel Kant -
Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
Vikas Swarup
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I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner -
Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
Mao Zedong -
Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
Ira Sachs -
If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.
Oprah Winfrey -
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
Ovid -
Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
Madeline Kahn
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It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.
Walker Evans -
What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
Dan Quayle -
Today, education does not give you the wisdom and the understanding; it only indoctrinates you to believe something. So the mind knows very less but accepts so many things; it may be science, it may be technology, it may be anything.
Lobsang Tenzin -
Monetary conditions exert an enormous influence on stock prices. Indeed, the monetary climate - primarily the trend in interest rates and Federal Reserve policy - is the dominant factor in determining the stock market's major direction.
Martin Zweig -
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
Zora Neale Hurston -
When you procrastinate, you're more likely to let your mind wander. That gives you a better chance of stumbling onto the unusual and spotting unexpected patterns.
Adam Grant