Adam Grant Quotes

In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.

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• Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.

  

  Larry Elder
  • People
  • Work
  • Profit

• The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • People
  • Important
  • Writing

• My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Father
  • Parents
  • Always

• People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • People
  • Matter
  • Everyone

• Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Time
  • Children
  • Help

• I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides ever, so she made it easy for me.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Friends
  • Wedding
  • Photographer

• I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Life
  • Sports
  • My Life

• Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Quality
  • Courage
  • Warrior

• I tend to wear all black. I like feeling sexy, feminine, effortless, and real.

  

  Banks
  • Real
  • Black
  • Feeling

• If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Struggle
  • Existence

• Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Thinking
  • Community
  • Powerful

• Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Think
  • Idiot
  • Computers

• Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Love
  • Doubt
  • Wait

• The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Think
  • Perfect
  • Beginning

• Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Culture
  • Powerful
  • Rich

• I keep going to New York every year for 20 to 25 days. I love it there, but I can't imagine settling in any place other than India.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • New York
  • Keep Going

• There's this label called Neurotica by these sweet girls that have given me some lovely things to wear, and we might collaborate on making a little piece. They're really lovely, and I think they've been quite inspired by me in turn.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Inspired
  • Sweet
  • Girls

• I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.

  

  John Corigliano
  • Up

• There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • People
  • Argument
  • Obtuse

• I don't need to cry so much. I think whatever you let loose with crying, I let loose with singing. I tend to be the one who wants... I'm trying to say this without sounding too touchy-feely. I'm usually the one who's better at comforting the person who's crying, you know?

  

  Beck
  • Trying
  • Singing
  • Crying

• But more overt sexual aggression may be the product of something few will acknowledge, at least on the record: Resentment. Off the record, in dozens of interviews over a period of years, male soldiers and officers have confided that many men resent women because they've been forced to pretend that women are equals, and men know they're not.

  

  Kathleen Parker
  • Men
  • Women
  • May

• I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent - important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch, the antithesis of leadership.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Important
  • Strong
  • Politics

• In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Women
  • Leadership
  • Voices