Top 160 Adam M. Grant Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Talented people are attracted to those who care about them.”

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102. “To become original, you have to try something new, which means accepting some measure of risk.”

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103. “Rice professor Erik Dane finds that the more expertise and experience people gain, the more entrenched they become in a particular way of viewing the world. He points to studies showing that expert bridge players struggled more than novices to adapt when the rules were changed, and that expert accountants were worse than novices at applying a new tax law. As we gain knowledge about a domain, we become prisoners of our prototypes.”

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104. “In a cult, core values are dogma.”

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105. “To get Firefox or Chrome, you have to demonstrate some resourcefulness and download a different browser. Instead of accepting the default, you take a bit of initiative to seek out an option that might be better. And that act of initiative, however tiny, is a window into what you do at work.”

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106. “Now that you have a bit of respect, you value your standing in the group and don’t want to jeopardize it. To maintain and then gain status, you play a game of follow-the-leader, conforming to prove your worth as a group member. As.”

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107. “Good explanations enable children to develop a code of ethics that often coincides with societal expectations; when they don’t square up, children rely on the internal compass of values rather than the external compass of rules.”

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108. “At work, our sense of commitment and control depends more on our direct boss than on anyone else. When we have a supportive boss, our bond with the organization strengthens and we feel a greater span of influence. As.”

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109. “If you’re gonna make connections which are innovative,” Steve Jobs said back in 1982, “you have to not have the same bag of experience as everyone else does.” Working.”

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110. “Three decades of research show that receiving support from colleagues is a robust antidote to burnout.”

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111. “You never know where somebody’s going to end up. It’s not just about building your reputation; it really is about being there for other people.”

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112. “When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. – attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer, physicist, biologist, and artist.”

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113. “Lectures aren’t designed to accommodate dialogue or disagreement; they turn students into passive receivers of information rather than active thinkers.”

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114. “Polarization is reinforced by conformity: peripheral members fit in and gain status by following the lead of the most prototypical member of the group, who often holds the most intense views.”

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115. “In a productive conversation, people treat their feelings as a rough draft.”

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116. “What look like differences in natural ability are often differences in opportunity and motivation.”

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117. “There’s a lot a vacation can do: help you unwind, see some different-looking squirrels, but it cannot fix deeper issues, like how you behave in group settings. We can take you on a hike. We cannot turn you into someone who likes hiking. Remember, you’re still gonna be you on vacation. If you are sad where you are, and then you get on a plane to Italy, the you in Italy will be the same sad you from before, just in a new place.”

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118. “When we lack the knowledge and skills to achieve excellence, we sometimes lack the knowledge and skills to judge excellence.”

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119. “When our commitment is wavering, the best way to stay on track is to consider the progress we’ve already made. As we recognize what we’ve invested and attained, it seems like a waste to give up, and our confidence and commitment surge.”

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120. “To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself,” Einstein lamented.”

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121. “Today, we have compelling evidence that interest precedes the development of talent. It turns out that motivation is the reason that people develop talent in the first place.”

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122. “Those only are happy,” philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote, “who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way.”

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123. “Exhausting someone in argument is not the same as convincing him. – Tim Kreider.”

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124. “Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds.” Albert Einstein.”

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125. “We listen to views that make us feel good, instead of ideas that make us think hard.”

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126. “If you’re seeking to unleash originality, here are some practical actions that you can take. The first steps are for individuals to generate, recognize, voice, and champion new ideas. The next set is for leaders to stimulate novel ideas and build cultures that welcome dissent. The final recommendations are for parents and teachers to help children become comfortable taking a creative or moral stand against the status quo.”

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127. “When our audiences are skeptical, the more we try to dominate them, the more they resist.”

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128. “When we become curious about the dissatisfying defaults in our world, we begin to recognize that most of them have social origins: Rules and systems were created by people. And that awareness gives us the courage to contemplate how we can change them. Before women gained the right to vote in America, many “had never before considered their degraded status as anything but natural,” historian.”

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129. “In one study, parents of ordinary children had an average of six rules, like specific schedules for homework and bedtime. Parents of highly creative children had an average of less than one rule and tended to “place emphasis on moral values, rather than on specific rules,” psychologist Teresa Amabile reports.”

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130. “An informed audience is going to spot the holes in our case anyway. We might as well get credit for having the humility to look for them, the foresight to spot them, and the integrity to acknowledge them.”

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131. “How do you know? It’s a question we need to ask more often, both of ourselves and of others.”

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132. “Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.” Mark Twain.”

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133. “Originality is not a fixed trait. It is a free choice. Lincoln wasn’t born with an original personality. Taking on controversy wasn’t programmed into his DNA; it was an act of conscious will. As the great thinker W. E. B. DuBois wrote, “He was one of you and yet he became Abraham Lincoln.”

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134. “If you want to be original, “the most important possible thing you could do,” says Ira Glass, the producer of This American Life and the podcast Serial, “is do a lot of work. Do a huge volume of work.”

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135. “On matters of style, swim with the current,” Thomas Jefferson allegedly advised, but “on matters of principle, stand like a rock.” The pressure to achieve leads us to do the opposite. We find surface ways of appearing original – donning a bow tie, wearing bright red shoes – without taking the risk of actually being original. When it comes to the powerful ideas in our heads and the core values in our hearts, we censor ourselves.”

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136. “Originals are people who take the initiative to make their visions a reality.”

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137. “We prefer the regular photos of our friends, because that’s how we’re used to seeing them, but we like the inverted photos of ourselves, because that’s how we see ourselves when we look in the mirror. “Familiarity doesn’t breed contempt,” says serial entrepreneur Howard Tullman. “It breeds comfort.”

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138. “The more successful people have been in the past, the worse they perform when they enter a new environment.”

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139. “One of the keys to cultivating grit is making the task at hand more interesting and motivating.”

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140. “No person could possibly be original in one area unless he were possessed of the emotional and social stability that comes from fixed attitudes in all areas other than the one in which he is being original.”

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141. “The more experiments you run, the less constrained you become by your ideas from the past. You.”

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142. “But there’s something distinctive that happens when givers succeed: it spreads and cascades.”

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143. “What stands in the way of rethinking isn’t the expression of emotion; it’s a restricted range of emotion.”

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144. “In a classic study of highly accomplished architects, the most creative ones graduated with a B average. Their straight-A counterparts were so determined to be right that they often failed to take the risk of rethinking the orthodoxy. A similar pattern emerged in a study of students who graduated at the top of their class. “Valedictorians aren’t likely to be the future’s visionaries,” education researcher Karen Arnold explains. “They typically settle into the system instead of shaking it up.”

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145. “This chapter is about when to speak up and how to do it effectively without jeopardizing our careers and relationships. What.”

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146. “They know in their hearts that failing would yield less regret than failing to try.”

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147. “Timing accounted for forty-two percent of the difference between success and failure.”

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148. “It’s widely assumed that there’s a tradeoff between quantity and quality – if you want to do better work, you have to do less of it – but this turns out to be false. In fact, when it comes to idea generation, quantity is the most predictable path to quality. “Original.”

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149. “A growing body of evidence suggests that entrepreneurs don’t like risk any more than the rest of us – and it’s the rare conclusion on which many economists, sociologists, and psychologists have actually come to agree.”

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150. “But our best allies aren’t the people who have supported us all along. They’re the ones who started out against us and then came around to our side.”

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