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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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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Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.
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You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and automatic.
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When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say 'Here's the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I'm taking to make sure I don't let people down in the future.'
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I'm not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace.
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I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.
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If I were to describe myself as any particular type of owner, it would be a fans' owner because you really get great satisfaction when you can go out on the streets and scream you're No. 1 and you're world champions.
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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.
