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 particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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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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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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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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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
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Call me an extremist but killing a few hundred million people seems like the sort of method that might have unintended consequences.
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In the past, when we've tried gene therapy, we haven't had tools that have allowed targeted gene correction.
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The most important thing for me is to walk the little alleys of the city, to find the little alcove where someone is cooking something, and just watch them do it. That's my idea of fun.
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People have passed through a very dark tunnel at the end of which there was a light of freedom. Unexpectedly they passed through the prison gates and found themselves in a square. They are now free and they don't know where to go.
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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.
