Adam Grant Quotes

I try to get as close as I can to cleaning out my inbox every night.

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• When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Internet
  • Old
  • Computers

• When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Trying
  • Funny
  • Taken

• A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • You
  • Value
  • Painting

• Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • People
  • Life
  • America

• You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • Audience
  • Find
  • Mistakes

• You are what you can prove you've done. That's how people judge you.

  

  Laura Marling
  • People
  • Done
  • Judge

• They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Party
  • Republican
  • Dominate

• My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Job
  • Together
  • Mom

• I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.'

  

  Lance Burton
  • Always
  • Mistake
  • Waiting

• I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.

  

  Barry Bostwick
  • Chance
  • Production
  • Number

• I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Need

• The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Alone

• Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Strong

• But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Teacher
  • Yoga
  • Swim

• I grew up in the era of Britney Spears, where artists had songs written for them, and you got up and sang them. That's how I always thought it was.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Up
  • You
  • Thought

• I would like to do a period piece. I think that would be fun.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Like

• My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Husband

• The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Sports
  • Achievement

• Panama is a country that's been dealing with issues of identity since its very birth. It was born on Wall Street. It was born out of engineering construction. It was the canal. Because of the canal, the country was born, so the country has been divided into pro-canal and against-canal people for so long.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • People
  • Long
  • Country

• Late at night. I feel like falling into a frenzy, doing some unprecedented thing to release myself, but I don't see against whom, against what...

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Night

• I would make up Theodor Seuss-like books at night when I was cleaning up from the dinner, you know, putting these little kids to bed, reading them rhyming books. And so that's what I started doing. They were really bad. I have some in a box and it says on the box, it's a note to my kids you know, when I die, if you ever publish these I will come back and haunt you.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Book
  • Kids
  • Night

• I try to get as close as I can to cleaning out my inbox every night.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Night
  • Try
  • Cleaning