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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As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.
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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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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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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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Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.
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Postwar America was a very buttoned-up nation. Radio shows were run by censors, Presidents wore hats, ladies wore girdles. We came straight out of the blue - nobody was expecting anything like Martin and Lewis. A sexy guy and a monkey is how some people saw us.
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Once the makeup is on, it is easy to enter the character's frame of mind.
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When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
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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.
