Adam Grant Quotes
Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.Adam Grant
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
Walter Lippmann -
If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.
Dallas Willard -
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
J. M. Roberts -
You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.
Bear Bryant -
Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
Damian Lewis
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
Salman Rushdie -
Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
Ram Dass -
In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
Parker Stevenson -
My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
Eddie Marsan -
The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
Cameron Winklevoss -
In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
Fran Lebowitz
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I've always wanted to do charity stuff. I'm such a nurturer and love taking care of people.
Paige Butcher -
It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
Zadie Smith -
It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
Mallory Ortberg -
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama -
If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.
Magnus Scheving -
Multinationals are more sensitive to public pressure because they have bigger brand names, and they have made commitments to be environmentally sensitive. Chinese firms are not used to this kind of pressure yet.
Ma Jun
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Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power.
Marcus Aurelius -
We want to stay on this tour bus together as long as we possibly can. I'm sure a lot of bands are like, 'I need my own space.' But we don't. I want to be with these guys forever.
Hillary Scott Lady Antebellum -
I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.
Hailey Bieber -
That was the beauty of 'Twin Peaks.' The young people had just as deep of storylines as the older generation in town.
Madchen Amick -
Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people.
Vladimir Lenin -
Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.
Adam Grant