Adam Grant Quotes

A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.

Adam Grant

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• President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.

  

  Ted Cruz
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  • Together
  • Principles

• I am very happy my Olympic dream has come true.

  

  Ma Long
  • Happy
  • Dream
  • Olympic

• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Pain
  • Gratitude
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• To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Change
  • Color
  • Makeup

• Nerves are good. They keep you alive.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Good
  • You
  • Alive

• I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Women
  • Support
  • Myself

• I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.

  

  Nate Silver
  • New
  • New York
  • Week

• I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Trying
  • Book

• I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.

  

  Jack Kelley
  • Person
  • Profession
  • Ambitious

• Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Man
  • Environment
  • Habit

• I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.

  

  Dan Colen
  • World
  • Trying
  • High

• No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Values
  • Own
  • Faithful

• Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.

  

  Ralph Gibson
  • Long
  • Art
  • Me

• We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Fighting
  • Dead
  • Heal

• Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Well
  • Ground
  • Feminism

• I am gluten free, dairy free and sugar free, although I do slip up on the sugar sometimes because I have a big sweet tooth!

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Free
  • Sweet
  • Dairy

• It is possible in this world to be pretty and funny and successful all at the same time.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Time
  • World
  • Pretty

• You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Society
  • Credit
  • Credit Card

• I really like 'The Three Kings' DVD. I love that movie and all the extra footage and documentaries.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • Movie
  • Like
  • Footage

• I just love any kind of language that can change the energy in a room. There are no limits for me, as long as it feels like it's being used in a particular way to garner or elicit a very particular reaction so that you can then use that reaction later for something else.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • Long
  • Energy

• I need to have people doubting me, because that's when you dig deep and find out what you're made of.

  

  Jake Peavy
  • People
  • Deep

• Ironically, I find it harder to get a foothold in Australia than I do in the U.S. When I was in Australia, I struggled. It can be a bit of a closed shop; it can be hard for a newcomer to break in, whereas in the U.S., it has much more of an open-door policy, and they will give anyone a shot.

  

  Tanc Sade
  • Door
  • Find
  • Will

• Dum novus errat amor, vires sibi colligat usu:Si bene nutrieris, tempore firmus erit.Quem taurum metuis, vitulum mulcere solebas:Sub qua nunc recubas arbore, virga fuit:Nascitur exiguus, sed opes adquirit eundo,Quaque venit, multas accipit amnis aquas.

  

  Ovid

• A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Culture
  • Enough
  • Resistance