Adam Grant Quotes

I spend a lot of my time trying to help leaders build cultures of productive givers.

Adam Grant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions.

Megan Smith

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Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from, and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

John le Carre

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I do see a lot of my kids, but sometimes I feel as though we have snatched moments. I turn up half way through something, or I only see her at bedtime. I'd like there to be more.

Steve McFadden

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Non-violence is not glamorous, and you don't see the effects right away.

Julia Bacha

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As the director, you have it in your mind how you want the part done, how you want someone to do it, and so sometimes you just say, 'Why don't I do it myself?' So for a little role, I'll just do it.

Jonathan Krisel

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I always think that my assignment is to seek out stories that are experienced by people who don't get the ticket for Easy Street.

Debra Granik

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Thanos has eight million backstories in the comics, but they're all kind of sad.

Christopher Markus

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When you see 'Star Wars', and you see Greedo hustle up to Solo, you know they have a history; you understand that there's a dude named Jabba the Hutt who's after him, and Greedo is going to try to shoot him and get the money. You get what's going on there.

Christopher McCulloch

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I did spend a lot of time as a child very confused about whether I had a devil in me, or whether I was in a state of grace. I mean, these ideas are so potent to anybody with half an imagination.

Antony Gormley

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Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.

William Shakespeare

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I got into Taekwondo when I was nine, and I started training Muay Thai and Brazilian Jujitsu later in life.

Sean Patrick Flanery

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I love 'Shameless' as a fan. But I love lots of television. And as an ensemble, I have never seen a group of people put on screen what 'Shameless' - the 'Shameless' cast as an ensemble and as individuals - in decades.

Shanola Hampton

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