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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Whenever I start a 'Potter' film, I get these dreams. The last dream I had, I was in a war and the sky was blotted with broomsticks and I couldn't find my wand. It was so intense. I always have mental, intense, war wizard dreams when I'm doing the films.
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Even though I love fashion and would love to be a fashion designer, I don't live and breathe fashion every day of my entire life.
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The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
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A moment for me that changed everything was hearing my song on the radio for the first time.
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In the time since I've done 'Bad Teacher,' I've produced an independent movie and directed two pilots. So I love to do all different types of things.
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I have lots of micro-goals of trying to get things done, whatever the amount of time available.
