Adam Grant Quotes
If you've ever had a coworker actively interfere with your productivity, try to make you look bad, steal your ideas, or give you false information, you've been the victim of undermining.
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I like a man who looks like a bad boy but knows how to treat a woman like a queen.
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There is always pressure in football.
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In reality, throughout your career, you have to make yourself interesting enough for people to be waiting to see your films. In my case, people are longing to see what I come out with next. That's my success.
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I am a very proud Hindu. The foundation of my personality is laid on the teachings of Swami Vivekananda or Sanatan Dharm or the Geeta. And if my religious practices or anybody's religious practices is given any kind of sadistic name, it instills fear about other person's religious practices.
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I've directed independent film.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.
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I think it's important for an actor to see the work they've done because every time you revisit a work you come up with a new way of improving it. It's a good way to brush up your craft and your skills, so I think it's a good thing to do, keep seeing your films.
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When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work.
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
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Nothing surprises me when it comes to people in the entertainment business.
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I got a big mouth.
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But I do have time to pencil in golf, and we've got four excellent courses.
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What's got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10, 20, 30 years.
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We have so many opportunities in first world countries. Let's not squander them by focusing on obstacles-real or imaginary!
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Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.
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If you've ever had a coworker actively interfere with your productivity, try to make you look bad, steal your ideas, or give you false information, you've been the victim of undermining.
