Adam Grant Quotes
When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.
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I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.
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I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft.
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When life gives you lemons, order the lobster tail.
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I don't think many people can say they've been the lead in a Spielberg film and still been able to live their normal life that they had before.
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People tell me not to do a soap, but it was a great learning experience because I became familiar with the technical aspects of the business. Besides, look who came out of soaps - Julianne Moore, Demi Moore, Tommy Lee Jones, Parker Posey, Kathleen Turner. All amazing people.
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When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.
