Adam Grant Quotes
You want people who choose to follow because they genuinely believe in ideas, not because they're afraid to be punished if they don't. For startups, there's so much pivoting that's required that if you have a bunch of sheep, you're in bad shape.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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I would say my career is in a very good place. I'm in a place of a lot of hope for what's next. I see something great, but I'm not quite there.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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I have no shame when it comes to making people laugh. I don't care what I look like.
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I don't know what's with me and the 'of God' shows. It's hard to tweet about, because I guess 'God' triggers some kind of filter.
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I don't know which was the first love - music or fashion.
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When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this creative side coming from the architect and that were making them a big success.
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I`m surprised people are that hopeful about what government can do, because if you believe in socialism, society can run a pretty decent government, it can provide services, it can regulate the economy effectively.
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You want people who choose to follow because they genuinely believe in ideas, not because they're afraid to be punished if they don't. For startups, there's so much pivoting that's required that if you have a bunch of sheep, you're in bad shape.
