Adam Grant Quotes

People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.

Adam Grant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CharacterChildrenPeopleBelieve

My first book is really comparable to what I do now, where it's pretty surreal and strange at moments, but that being my first book - I wrote that when I was 22; it came out when I was 24 - and it was just really overwritten. I just didn't trust myself as a writer to say something once.

Joe Meno

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I have to get three pages done every day, and there's usually a point about 150 pages in where everything falls apart, where all the plans are for naught. The book has become something else, and I have a nervous breakdown, and then I submit to what the book has become, and I keep going, and that's a terrible and then a great time.

Andrew Sean Greer

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Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

Michael Heizer

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Who isn't fascinated by evil?

Marvin Gaye

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Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality.

Bryan White

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Never assume the obvious is true.

William Safire

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Sage is cleansing and sacred.

Pink

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I'm a portrait photographer that's used to shooting celebrities, and I usually need time and all kinds of lights and a studio to set up my shots.

Platon

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I think the reason that drones have become so controversial is because they're used in Pakistan; they're used in Yemen; they've been used in all kinds of places.

Tim Kaine

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The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.

Ricky Jay

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I did a series of these soft-core horror movies called 'Mirror Mirror.' I got killed in 'em all - and each time, I came back as a different character. They were all straight-to-video.

Mark Ruffalo

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Great advertising, in and of itself, becomes a benefit of the product.

George Lois

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