Adam Grant Quotes
The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.
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I don't think there was a definite day, but it would have been around my mid-20s. I was always interested in the media side of things. When we travelled with England away, or to World Cups, I used to sit with journos while they wrote their copy.
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Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
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Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.
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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
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I couldn't speak any English when I first left Russia, and Intimissimi taught me everything. The team was like a family to me - they showed me how to model and how to stay in shape. They really believed in me.
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
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A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.
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When we all start to wake up and realize that our comforts are fleeting, and more money is never going to save this world, maybe, just maybe, will we be able to return back to the grace of America's principal values.
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I was a good student. My mom is a teacher, and her side of the family is all teachers. She put a big emphasis on getting good grades.
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It's a relationship I went through that collapsed my entire view of the world in a very extreme way.
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I never have to this day, because my money is the money I earn.
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Some say I do it this way, others say I do it that way, but I say I do it the other way.
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The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.
