Adam Grant Quotes
If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
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Salesforce's Chatter is what convinced me that the company understood what is going on in the enterprise; this was the biggest attraction for me. I saw that Salesforce understands social.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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I like to think of myself as classy.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
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I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.
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One of my first fashion clients was Calvin Klein. We did his first freestanding stores. He was very exact and precise. But talk about high-fashion people who brand themselves!
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Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the 'things' of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. 'We give our children guns and computer games,' Wendy said. 'They gave their children the land.'
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The world, in truth, is a wedding.
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If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
