Adam Grant Quotes
In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until dinnertime.Adam Grant
Quotes to Explore
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Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.
Gary Bauer -
Working with Angela Bassett is by far the best. I've watched and admired her for years. I'm very intrigued by her work. She's so cool. I still call her 'Mom' when I see her.
Lance Gross -
I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
Rachel McAdams -
We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
Patrick Soon-Shiong -
Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
Karen Salmansohn -
I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
Gaby Hoffmann
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I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.
Zig Ziglar -
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi -
'Vanity' means worthlessness.
Vanity -
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
Carl Jung -
I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!
Dakota Fanning -
I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter of all courses I attended. But in St. John's, I was in the lower quarter. And the fact was that Indian students studied harder than we did in Sweden. They read the textbook twice, or three times or four times.
Hans Rosling
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People are so used to having their lives filmed, they're not even conscious of having cameras around. I still have that sort of suspicion when a camera comes out. I view it as a thing to fear.
Sade Adu -
Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
Laura Schlessinger -
I study hard at Russian, which is a tough but most attractive language.
Bayard Taylor -
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
Gary McCord -
I'm a Slovak. And when I was growing up, I believed that I was Czechoslovakian because of what Russia did. They came in and took two separate countries - Slovakia and the Czech Republic - put them together as one.
Jesse Ventura
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The pressures, I don't really like to think about the pressures, I like to solve them, you know what I mean. I could sit here and complain about pressures but nobody wants to hear about pressures.
Rick Danko -
Countless hours of physical therapy - and the talents of the medical community - have brought me new movement in my right arm. It's fractional progress, and it took a long time, but my arm moves when I tell it to.
Gabrielle Giffords -
I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book, I haven't got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up.
Eddie Campbell -
Privacy has become the most precious thing. Things have got more cryptic in my writing.
Jamie Hince -
In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until dinnertime.
Adam Grant