Adam Grant Quotes

I have lots of micro-goals of trying to get things done, whatever the amount of time available.

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• What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Important
  • Me
  • Vote

• No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.

  

  Aaron Brown
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Wants

• NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Security
  • NATO
  • Cornerstone

• Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Teach
  • Inside
  • Nobody

• Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Home
  • Thought
  • Playing

• I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Good
  • Different
  • Children

• Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Good
  • Person
  • Stillness

• As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Law
  • Government
  • Decision

• People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Guy
  • Me

• The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Done
  • History

• I don't know if Wimbledon's seen anything like it. I don't know if they will again. But it was just - it was electric. The Aussie crowd, I'm really proud of them, the way they conducted themselves. You know they're great losers, as well.

  

  Patrick Rafter
  • Great
  • Know
  • Proud

• To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Happiness
  • Child
  • Find

• I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.

  

  C. J. Box
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• You can exercise anytime, anywhere. It doesn't have to be the gym.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • You
  • Exercise
  • Gym

• 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.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Important
  • Fun
  • City

• To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Violence
  • Daughter
  • Situation

• Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Today
  • Health
  • Problem

• Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Lost
  • Successful
  • Trials

• Isn't the purpose of bitcoin mining simply to get rich - or not, as the case may be? Well, at 21, we are less concerned with bitcoin as a financial instrument and more interested in bitcoin as a protocol - and particularly in the industrial uses of bitcoin enabled by embedded mining.

  

  Balaji S. Srinivasan
  • May
  • Purpose
  • Financial

• Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have already mentioned, enabled me to gain much important information as to the position and designs of the enemy.

  

  Belle Boyd
  • Important
  • Enemy

• If you don't try, if you don't do something for yourself, you won't get anywhere.

  

  Bobby Darin

• I finally learned that doing what I want isn't love. I don't want to hurt him again by acting childish.

  

  Na Hae Ryeong
  • Hurt

• If we could, we'd change a lot of things. But the only thing that's going to really change things is money and time. And time might just make it worse, too.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Time
  • Money
  • Change

• I have lots of micro-goals of trying to get things done, whatever the amount of time available.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Done