Adam Grant Quotes

In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.

Adam Grant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.

John Banville

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The 1980s were all about synths for me, and it never went away after that.

John Grant

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Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions.

John McCarthy

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I'm trying to make sure that for myself and for my family, I'm staying as close to the heart of God that I possibly can.

Sonny Sandoval

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As a community, we're fighting for Asians to play Asian roles. And then there's the other battle, which is Asian Americans playing roles that aren't written for Asians, and I think that's something that completely should happen; Why can't an Asian American male just play a leading cop figure... or the Matt Damon roles?

Ross Butler

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Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived.

Desi Arnaz

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I can't tell you how many times I hit that mat, especially that first year, where I said to myself, 'Man, this fake stuff hurts like hell. Do I really want to do this?' And every time, I would come back, 'Yeah, I wanna do this.'

Diamond Dallas Page

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We know that if supersymmetric particles exist, they must be very heavy; otherwise we would have spotted them by now.

Brian Greene

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Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.

Brett Ratner

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I live with fellow speed skaters and National Team members Heather Richardson, Sugar Todd and Mitch Whitmore, and Sugar lives up to her name. She spoils our household with baked goods, and not just at Christmastime.

Brittany Bowe

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When you travel around Moscow, you can see almost every car is using a smartphone where they can see what's ahead of them.

Arkady Volozh

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When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer.

Antonio Damasio

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