Adam Grant Quotes
Being a giver is not about saying yes to all of the people all of the time to all of the requests.
Quotes to Explore
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.
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The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.
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Is everything funny? For me, yes. There's a positive to every negative. Even my divorce? For me, yes. If you go back and look at it, why it happened or how it happened, there's something in there that'll make you laugh.
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Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
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Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time.
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Being a giver is not about saying yes to all of the people all of the time to all of the requests.
