Adam Grant Quotes
In the workplace, many people become helicopter managers, hovering over their employees in a well-intentioned but ill-fated attempt to provide support. These are givers gone awry - people so desperate to help others that they develop a white knight complex and end up causing harm instead.
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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What is a farm but a mute gospel?
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my people. I am only proud of this and nothing else. I shall continue to serve until my last breath, and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.
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The leaders of the free world keep lowering their standards and authoritarians keep taking more territory. Eventually people wake up and ask why Putin murders in the UK or hacks in the US. Why wouldn’t he? You didn’t stop him before.
Garry Kasparov -
It's always a pleasure to perform for people who love country music. And Australians definitely fall into that category. Each time I go back, I learn something new about the country, and I get to see some of the most beautiful places on the planet.
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We're the only species that have crapped up the planet and the only species that can clean it up.
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It's always about bringing in the numbers, the viewership. That's what gets you the money.
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My advice to Hillary would be to divorce that chump.
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In the workplace, many people become helicopter managers, hovering over their employees in a well-intentioned but ill-fated attempt to provide support. These are givers gone awry - people so desperate to help others that they develop a white knight complex and end up causing harm instead.
