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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This is the biggest win of my life.
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You marry your friends when you stay with your friends. It's hard enough to find a good roommate, let alone a good person you can live with and fall in love with at the same time. You might as well just take your roommate, if you can find one, and marry them. I mean, if you can find somebody that doesn't drive you crazy, I would say marry that.
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When I was a kid a long time ago, when the sun rose, I was outside on my bike. If my parents were lucky - poor parents! - I would be home before it got dark.
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I love when I go to conventions, and often it'll be the younger kids who will refer to us by our character names - how can you not find that absolutely charming? I remember when I used to go to conventions when I was a kid when I would stand in long lines to get people's autograph.
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A very common thing these days is people show up and they ask us in the band to sign with a Sharpie right on their skin and they go get it tattooed the next day. Then they'll show up at another show and they'll have their tattoo.
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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.
