Adam Grant Quotes
To make sense of bossiness, we need to tease apart two fundamental aspects of social hierarchy that are often lumped together: power and status. Power lies in holding a formal position of authority or controlling important resources. Status involves being respected or admired.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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Broadway is really my life.
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You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
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You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.
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In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later, Britain had government health care, a government-owned car industry, massive government housing, and it was a shriveled high-unemployment socialist basket-case living off the dwindling cultural capital of its glorious past. In 1945, America emerged from the Second World War as the preeminent power on earth. Seventy years later . . . Let’s not go there.
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The idea, as a director, is to be able to bring everybody on board and to inspire and give energy to everybody and to explain specific color, specific ambience. I need to be very precise, but I think I'm a better director when I'm more a channeler than a dictator.
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We don't know which use cases will ultimately be the most important for 5G, but we know that early adopters tend to get a sustainable advantage.
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In a theater experience, the words and the feelings are the most important - the lights coming on and off are the only equipment.
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I guess my stuff needs to grow on people. Too bad! That seems to happen with all of it.
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To make sense of bossiness, we need to tease apart two fundamental aspects of social hierarchy that are often lumped together: power and status. Power lies in holding a formal position of authority or controlling important resources. Status involves being respected or admired.
