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Adam Grant Quotes

I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Smile Great Me Book Think Rules

I feel like I always learn from somebody who can do something better than I can.

Better Feel Learn I Can Always Like

When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.

Music Time Peace Creative New York

Every year is filled with good times and fights and struggles and misunderstandings. All of it adds up to being in a band over a long time.

Good Time Good Times Year Long Band

My entire adult life has been devoted to family and career, each adding to the other in many rewarding ways. I have never felt that I had to set a pattern for my writing and teaching.

Life Family Writing Career Never

If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.

Shirley MacLaine

Family Walk Peace Will Matters Away

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Robert Benchley

Time Talent Me Writing Famous Up

My dad worked all sorts of jobs when I was growing up and finally ended up as a surveyor; my mum delivers meals to old folk around where we live. We didn't have much money when I was growing up, but I had a very happy childhood.

Michelle Dockery

Live Money Childhood Happy Growing

My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

Father Up Italian He Household Grew

Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.

Time Unhappy Someone Ungrateful Make

When I'm anchoring, I miss chasing stories in the field.

Miss Chasing Stories Field Anchoring

Howard Stern gave me the best advice about Twitter and the N word. He said maybe onstage people get the intention behind the joke, but a tweet is 140 characters or less, and maybe that's why people overreact. I don't need to rustle any more feathers and lose any investors.

Lisa Lampanelli

Best People Me Advice Lose Feathers

One of the things that really drove me crazy was the way in which college kids, in particular, are educated to think that ideology is dangerous and bad.

College Me Crazy Think Bad Way

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