Adam Grant Quotes
We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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This gold medal, to me, is a very good outcome from the many years I've spent on my professional career.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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I get homesick.
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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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There's nothing more marvelously wintery than orange root veg mash; some butter is all it needs.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
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The hoax is the very absence of truth, which usually means art is absent, too - hoaxes regularly substitute claims of reality for imagination, facts for form, acting as if artifice is the antithesis of art.
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When you are generalizing, and when your goal is to malign and to say things about an entire group - there are tens of millions of Scientologists in the world - when you decide to blanket statement that 'Scientology is evil,' you are my enemy.
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We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
