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.
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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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.
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I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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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.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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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.
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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.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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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.
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You can exercise anytime, anywhere. It doesn't have to be the gym.
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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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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.
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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.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?
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I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the phrase 'woman writer' as anti-feminist. I wrote an essay about this as far back as 1977, at the height of the neo-feminist movement.
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I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.
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Describe character using dialogue. Describe character using what the characters see or do or think, but not what they had done or where they had been.
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I have lots of micro-goals of trying to get things done, whatever the amount of time available.
