Adam Grant Quotes

When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can tug at their heartstrings and motivate them to act against their own best interests.

Adam Grant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 13, 1981

Topics

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The Mariel boatlift was probably one of the most strengthening events of the exile community; maybe Nietzschean, in the sense that if it doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger.

Joe Garcia

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I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency.

Anatoly Karpov

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The first time someone stood up in front of the fire and told the story while illustrating it with shadows on the walls of the quarry, that was the birth of theater.

Robert Lepage

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Price creates incentive, and energy will be developed if there's demand for it at the price you can develop it.

John S. Watson

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Biblical justice is the equitable application of God's moral law in society.

Tony Evans

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I'd totally be attracted to a geek girl!

Robert Carlyle

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Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.

Roger Ebert

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All my friends are girls. I just prefer the company of women.

Louise Nurding

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I think the problem is that fashion has become too fashionable.

Louise Wilson

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Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary of Defense.

Louis A. Johnson

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When people heckle me, I have the microphone. And the press has the microphone.

Joy Behar

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My advice would be, as you consider fiscal policies, to keep in mind and look carefully at the impact those policies are likely to have on the economy's productive capacity, on productivity growth, and to the maximum extent possible, choose policies that would improve that long-run growth and productivity outlook.

Janet Yellen

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