Adam Grant Quotes

To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.

Adam Grant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CreativeIdeasStartPlaceImportant

Although it sounds cliche, the main thing I want to do is touch people with what I do. I want everything I do to be meaningful, and I want it to be about more than just myself, or the money.

Sophie Lowe

MyselfMoneyPeopleWantTouchMore

Prison make you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

Suge Knight

CharacterPeoplePrisonBetterJudge

Sometimes it's all about the casting.

Roger Ebert

SometimesCastingAbout

My first job in acting was in a Scott Baio movie called 'I Love N.Y.' My role was Italian Girl. I sent my 8x10 to a casting agent in the booklet, 'The Ross Report,' which is where all the agents were listed before that little thing called the Internet. I read for this tiny part. I couldn't have been more excited to get it.

Liz Tuccillo

LoveGirlJobInternetActingFirst

We don't have cable, so I don't watch a lot of traditional TV. I watch a lot of Netflix, and there's this thing in Canada called Show Me, and then I also get things from iTunes.

Julia Stiles

MeCanadaNetflixThingsWatchGet

I actually got stabbed at my friend's bachelor party. In real life.

Johnny Knoxville

LifeFriendPartyBachelorRealGot

Your spouse, a sibling, a friend need to read your drafts. They have to be people unafraid to tell you what sucks. For early feedback, that's more important than professional editorial skill. Most people know what sucks.

Douglas Brunt

FriendPeopleSiblingYouEarly

New Yorkers will be rude, but at least they do so out of the rationale that everyone around them is always slowing them down. Los Angeles, I learned, is a city full of people who have the personality of the coolest pretty boy from your eighth-grade class.

Chris Gethard

PersonalityPeopleCityDownNew

I know I can go outside and have better numbers than I put up in the slot.

Chris Harris, Jr.

BetterI CanNumbersGoKnowUp

My idols are Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Keaton, John Goodman. Maybe that's what I want for me.

Breckin Meyer

MeWantIdolsMaybeJohnGoodman

I haven't really got any hidden talents.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

HiddenTalentsGotAnyReally

'Downton Abbey' didn't have the impact it had just because it was a good story about people. It was something about that period and that world that was fascinating to people on a level that wasn't just as an entertainment.

Noah Hawley

GoodPeopleWorldStoryImpactJust

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