Adam Grant Quotes

You want people who choose to follow because they genuinely believe in ideas, not because they're afraid to be punished if they don't. For startups, there's so much pivoting that's required that if you have a bunch of sheep, you're in bad shape.

Adam Grant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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The fans have been very nice to me and I might say that all those fans that Frank said went away is not so.

Jimmy Carl Black

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Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do this for a while to make a little money so I could write novels. I thought movies were a second-class art form. I condescended to it - I didn't know enough to know it was really gonna be hard.

Stephen Gaghan

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I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.

Tony Judt

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Anything may be possible in America, but a Palin presidency is virtually implausible.

Ron Fournier

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The Roman Catholics must know as well as we do that 'Popery' when encouraged by government has always been dangerous to the liberties of the people.

Lord George Gordon

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Who's on the case when it comes to the flat tax?

Joshua Micah Marshall

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I'm trying to always do new things because if you stay behind and fight the future, you are just going to be left behind.

Diplo

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Back in the 1980s, you could learn how to add memory cards to your PC in a Radio Shack.

Annalee Newitz

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Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

Norman Cousins

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In some ways I believe music is the more convincing communicator of ideas than words. For instance, we can hear of Kordaly and Bartok and recognise them as Hungarian, but very few of us speak Hungarian, but the music itself speaks to more people.

Leonard Slatkin

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I love my body. I'm very much OK with it. I don't think artists are ever the ones who have the problem with their weight, it is other people.

Kelly Clarkson

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