Adam Grant Quotes
Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were into French literature preferred Hugo's poetry.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.
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Sometimes I'll write without the guitar or the piano, but most of the time I'll be playing and just improvising some words. And when I get something that sounds good, a line with a story in it, I'll try and tease it out and figure out where the story is going.
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If it was easy, everyone would do it rather than going around telling you their ideas and saying how they could be a writer if they had the time.
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Glamour can be something very simple. Glamour can be how you wash your face, how you make your breakfast.
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Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.
