Adam Grant Quotes

Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.

Adam Grant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I always urge women to aim for the highest job they can get because you get more money and you get more support and you get more control, and those are the three things that actually make life easier.

Joanna Coles

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When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.

Jerry Falwell

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My view of the afterlife is that it's made of different levels, depending on how spiritual a life we live.

John Edward

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I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.

Jeannette Walls

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I can't say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

Stephen Hawking

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I grew up under the British system, which I think is horrific for children - very, very strict - a system that did not recognize children as being individuals. You were small animals earning the right to be human.

Lorraine Toussaint

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I've got little ankles and a bit of a belly, so it makes me look rather an egg on legs.

Johnny Vegas

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My dad was an actor, so he would try and put me off and say, 'Come on, you've got to go to university first.'

Dolly Wells

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I react to stress badly. I handle it better these days. But I'm a very straightforward person.

Dawn Steel

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It just seemed so odd as people had never commented on my body before. Every woman obsesses over her figure, but I was happy, I felt sexy - I never thought about it. I know this sounds naive, but I honestly never expected this kind of attention.

Christina Hendricks

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I don't like peanut butter and jelly that much.

Christina Milian

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Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

Chuck Palahniuk

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