Adam Grant Quotes

When medical students focus on helping others, they're able to weather the slings and arrows of long hours and devastating health outcomes: they know their colleagues and patients are depending on them.

Adam Grant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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First and foremost, I would like to extend my deepest sympathies to the family of Michael Brown. As I have said in the past, I know that, regardless of the circumstances here, they lost a loved one to violence. I know the pain that accompanies such a loss knows no bounds.

Robert P. McCulloch

FamilyPastPainLovedLossKnow

Working with and collaborating with and for Peter Jackson was an incredible experience because he is such a phenomenal filmmaker.

Andy Serkis

ExperienceFilmmakerBecauseWorking

The old ways of teaching are slow and expensive. But with mobile, cost plummets, access broadens, and pedagogy rises.

Michael J. Saylor

SlowOldExpensiveCostMobileWays

It would surprise you how many government and business leaders with dyslexia. Some people view it as a weakness, and maybe it is. What dyslexia forces you to do, you don't go A, B, C, D, E... to Z. I can go A, B... Z with speed.

John T. Chambers

BusinessGovernmentPeopleSurprise

Where a country lies is a subjective decision and only in part a product of its own desire. Much, if not most, is determined by what others believe about it.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

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I'm very curious about the world, foreign cultures.

Rosemary Mahoney

CuriousWorldCulturesForeignVery

Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.

Rowan Williams

DirectionThinkingYouTemptation

A writer is always, always searching, even against her will, against all her better instincts, for the thread of a story. Everything is fodder. Everything is fuel. You can feel it coming on like the tingling of a sore throat. The brain never stops struggling to reshape every experience and feeling into a coherent narrative.

Miriam Toews

ExperienceBrainStoryBetterYou

We're very good in America at talking about stuff, often stuff to buy. We tend to talk about our iPods. We tend to talk about cars or new fads.

Milton Glaser

GoodAmericaTalkingNewTalkBuy

My father was a negative person. He actually taught me to be negative, if that makes any sense. I remember him saying: 'You know there's no point in expecting anything good to happen because it won't.' I grew up in such a negative atmosphere.

Joyce Meyer

GoodFatherMeSayingNegativeYou

You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else.

Jordan Peele

TimeYourselfYouSaidSuccessful

Mormons know that it's not enough to practise your religion - you also have to spread your religion.

Jonah Peretti

ReligionEnoughYouKnowSpread

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