Adam Grant Quotes
When it comes to landing a good job, many people focus on the role. Although finding the right title, position, and salary is important, there's another consideration that matters just as much: culture.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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If we can win games, it doesn't matter who is scoring.
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One of the things I find extremely challenging about the continent of Africa is that when the immediate needs and the social needs of people are not met, that kills dreams, and it's all about survival.
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The only way that you can ever know if something is of value to you is by the way it feels as you are receiving it
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Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind of breakfast cereal you like.
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If you just breathe, and go slower, you will have enough energy. It's really important because there are people who wait in line, and your work has changed their lives. You will need to listen to them because they are also going to feed you and give you confirmation of the prayer you asked before you spoke.
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When it comes to landing a good job, many people focus on the role. Although finding the right title, position, and salary is important, there's another consideration that matters just as much: culture.
