Adam Grant Quotes
When making decisions about people, stop confusing experience with evidence. Just as owning a car doesn't make you an expert on engines, having a brain doesn't mean you understand psychology.Adam Grant
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
Garry Shandling -
I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
Yogi Berra -
Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
Yehuda Amichai -
Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.
Candice Swanepoel
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
Ira Glass -
I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
Hansika Motwani -
It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
Gao Xingjian -
The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
Sam Kean -
There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
Harry Anderson -
I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
Mamie Van Doren
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The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
Calvin Johnson -
The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
Bassem Youssef -
No man may make another free.
Zora Neale Hurston -
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
Ian MacKaye -
I knew boxing before I knew anything else.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
Ian McKeever -
I have candles, pictures and flowers on my nightstand... and of course a lamp!
Khloe Kardashian -
Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
What firefighters and people in our military and cops do is separate from what the rest of us do; basically these people say, 'I'm going to protect all these strangers.'
Denis Leary -
We have a rare chance to pursue a new path, a different, better future that delivers progress for both our peoples and the wider world. That's the opportunity before the Iranian people. We need to take advantage of that.
Barack Obama -
When making decisions about people, stop confusing experience with evidence. Just as owning a car doesn't make you an expert on engines, having a brain doesn't mean you understand psychology.
Adam Grant