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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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
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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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And time for reflection with colleagues is for me a lifesaver; it is not just a nice thing to do if you have the time. It is the only way you can survive.
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The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion.
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When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.
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I think people are confused about what the Tea Party is. I mean, they were a broad cross-section of Americans who came together concerned about our debt and our spending. And they're interested in constitutional, limited government. And so they're not one group of people. They're thousands of small groups all over the country.
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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.
