Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about i...
ADAM GRANT Some people are selfish in all of their relationships. Those people are called sociopaths.
ADAM GRANT For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitt...
ADAM GRANT Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
ADAM GRANT Takers believe in a zero-sum world, and they end up creating one where bosses, colleagues and client...
ADAM GRANT Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unex...
ADAM GRANT From a motivation perspective, helping others enriches the meaning and purpose of our own lives, sho...
ADAM GRANT I believe that the most meaningful way to succeed is to help other people succeed.
ADAM GRANT It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment,...
ADAM GRANT One of the signs of a bad coworker is a pattern of persistent undermining - intentionally hindering ...
ADAM GRANT To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people c...
ADAM GRANT To get real diversity of thought, you need to find the people who genuinely hold different views and...
ADAM GRANT Kids who evolve into creative adults tend to have a strong moral compass.
ADAM GRANT From a relationship perspective, givers build deeper and broader connections.
ADAM GRANT Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond...
ADAM GRANT Last year, when I got that stress fracture and I was out for a while, I got really down on myself. M...
ADAM GRANT To be honest, sometimes a rock worm feels like cheating because it's fishing a worm. It is a fantast...
ADAM GRANT These flies hatch in the early spring and late fall. It's a dry fly that is usually fished pretty sm...
ADAM GRANT This is a great pattern because you can dead drift a hot head leech, and toward the end of the cast,...
ADAM GRANT The main principles for trout fishing are food and cover. If fish can get under the (ice) shelf and ...
ADAM GRANT It's best to try and get it when the river's coming down a bit. When it's warm enough for the fish t...
ADAM GRANT But we are not thinking about those things right now. We just want to focus on getting better every ...
ADAM GRANT A scud is another one of my other winter flies. On the Reef it is the fly.
ADAM GRANT Agreeable people are warm and friendly. They're nice; they're polite. You find a lot of them...
ADAM GRANT By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for im...
ADAM GRANT The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skill...
ADAM GRANT Successful givers secure their oxygen masks before coming to the assistance of others. Although thei...
ADAM GRANT It's ironic that when you go through a tragedy, you appreciate more. You realize how fragile lif...
ADAM GRANT When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think ab...
ADAM GRANT Power frees us from the chains of conformity.
ADAM GRANT The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact o...
ADAM GRANT Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent,...
ADAM GRANT In the workplace, many people become helicopter managers, hovering over their employees in a well-in...
ADAM GRANT Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the...
ADAM GRANT A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, bu...
ADAM GRANT When medical students focus on helping others, they're able to weather the slings and arrows of ...
ADAM GRANT Productive givers focus on acting in the long-term best interests of others, even if it's not pl...
ADAM GRANT Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. Wh...
ADAM GRANT I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.
ADAM GRANT To make sense of bossiness, we need to tease apart two fundamental aspects of social hierarchy that ...
ADAM GRANT When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was cur...
ADAM GRANT If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourag...
ADAM GRANT The more important argument against grade curves is that they create an atmosphere that's toxic ...
ADAM GRANT Rather than looking outward in an attempt to predict the outcome, you turn inward to your identity. ...
ADAM GRANT When you develop a reputation for being responsive and generous, an ever-expanding mountain of reque...
ADAM GRANT When you procrastinate, you're more likely to let your mind wander. That gives you a better chan...
ADAM GRANT The opposite of an underminer is a supporter. When colleagues are supportive, they go out of their w...
ADAM GRANT Perhaps gaining power doesn't cause people to act like takers. It simply creates the opportunity...
ADAM GRANT Takers are self-serving in their interactions. It's all about what can you do for me.
ADAM GRANT If you want to be a generous giver, you have to watch out for selfish takers.
ADAM GRANT When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Giver...
ADAM GRANT Convictions in our ideas is dangerous not only because it leaves us vulnerable to false positives, b...
ADAM GRANT Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it's easy to thwart.
ADAM GRANT When it comes to landing a good job, many people focus on the role. Although finding the right title...
ADAM GRANT We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better l...
ADAM GRANT For women to achieve equal representation in leadership roles, it's important that they have the...
ADAM GRANT The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
ADAM GRANT I'm a precrastinator. Yes, that's an actual term. You know that panic you feel a few hours b...
ADAM GRANT Meditation isn't snake oil. For some people, meditation might be the most efficient way to reduc...
ADAM GRANT If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
ADAM GRANT When a salesperson truly cares about you, trust forms, and you're more likely to buy, come back ...
ADAM GRANT Saying no frees you up to say yes when it matters most.
ADAM GRANT Negative feedback can make people feel inferior.
ADAM GRANT As more women 'lean in' and we collectively continue to fight sexism, there's another ba...
ADAM GRANT People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we...
ADAM GRANT Recognize that dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong, and go out of your way to...
ADAM GRANT When making decisions about people, stop confusing experience with evidence. Just as owning a car do...
ADAM GRANT When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their...
ADAM GRANT Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
ADAM GRANT I have lots of micro-goals of trying to get things done, whatever the amount of time available.
ADAM GRANT I start a lot of things and purposely leave them unfinished. When I have a bunch of really long emai...
ADAM GRANT I try to get as close as I can to cleaning out my inbox every night.
ADAM GRANT When people are depending on us, we end up finding strength we didn't know we had.
ADAM GRANT I want my children to know that we often become resilient for others.
ADAM GRANT Conformity is dangerous.
ADAM GRANT If you want to find out if someone's a taker, it's not actually that useful to know what the...
ADAM GRANT I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
ADAM GRANT Frenemies are worse than enemies, and it's not just in the workplace.
ADAM GRANT To grow, people need to be challenged.
ADAM GRANT We have many identities, and we can't be authentic to them all. The best we can do is be sincere...
ADAM GRANT In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.
ADAM GRANT I'm not a fan of being inauthentic.
ADAM GRANT I spend a lot of my time trying to help leaders build cultures of productive givers.
ADAM GRANT If an organization values innovation, you can assume it's safe to speak up with new ideas, leade...
ADAM GRANT In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until ...
ADAM GRANT If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their ...
ADAM GRANT If I had the day off and knew everyone else was voting, I wouldn't miss it. It would become a ro...
ADAM GRANT Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step ...
ADAM GRANT To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ...
ADAM GRANT Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.
ADAM GRANT Being a giver is not about saying yes to all of the people all of the time to all of the requests.
ADAM GRANT I can't tell you that if you bring in a bunch of weird and different people, then a bunch of goo...
ADAM GRANT We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconfor...
ADAM GRANT You want people who choose to follow because they genuinely believe in ideas, not because they'r...
ADAM GRANT If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissen...
ADAM GRANT When young women get called bossy, it's often because they're trying to exercise power witho...
ADAM GRANT No one wants to hear everything that's in your head. They just want you to live up to what comes...
ADAM GRANT Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully ab...
ADAM GRANT As a man, it is true that I will never know what it is like to be a woman. As an organizational psyc...
ADAM GRANT In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.
ADAM GRANT The most promising ideas begin from novelty and then add familiarity.
ADAM GRANT Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too mu...
ADAM GRANT Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creativ...
ADAM GRANT Being a magician taught me how powerful the element of surprise can be. In each book, I've tried...
ADAM GRANT Originals are nonconformists, people who not only have new ideas but take action to champion them. T...
ADAM GRANT In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality...
ADAM GRANT Teams need the opportunity to learn about each other's capabilities and develop productive routi...
ADAM GRANT If you've ever had a coworker actively interfere with your productivity, try to make you look ba...
ADAM GRANT When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you...
ADAM GRANT Givers reject the notion that interdependence is weak. Givers are more likely to see interdependence...
ADAM GRANT Instead of courage' management guru Tom Peters recommends fostering 'a level of fury with the status...
ADAM M. GRANT Merely knowing that you are not the only resister makes it substantially easier to reject the crowd.
ADAM M. GRANT The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader." - Quoting Derek Sivers
ADAM M. GRANT When our commitment is wavering, the best way to stay on track is to consider the progress we've alr...
ADAM M. GRANT One participant got so angry after thinking about the insulting feedback that hitting the punching b...
ADAM M. GRANT Love is somthing that can not be explained - the force that drives us to protect the ones we care ...
ADAM Good people eat all their veggies and all the fruits, but they still have good grades. I call this, ...
ADAM I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The...
AMY GRANT It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old...
AMY GRANT You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea...
AMY GRANT Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we pla...
AMY GRANT The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.
AMY GRANT Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd ...
AMY GRANT I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's somethin...
AMY GRANT Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much ...
AMY GRANT I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced...
AMY GRANT There is not a formula for the way that God heals. There's not a timetable.
AMY GRANT I think what I mostly realize is just that life is unpredictable. So don't be afraid, but just e...
AMY GRANT There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature...
AMY GRANT The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.
AMY GRANT But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with comp...
AMY GRANT I think our culture encourages all of us to always put our best foot forward. I think it's a goo...
AMY GRANT Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the C...
AMY GRANT Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect,...
AMY GRANT Real relationship is gritty and earthy, the stuff that life is made of.
AMY GRANT Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends...
AMY GRANT Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's sh...
AMY GRANT A film like 'Good Night And Good Luck,' you make that for $7 million because you know it'...
GRANT HESLOV When you look at a film like 'The Ides of March' or 'Good Night, and Good Luck' even...
GRANT HESLOV I slightly lost my enthusiasm for most acting, but I've done some little bits and pieces - curio...
HUGH GRANT Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel...
AMY GRANT Few men in their 70s looked as good as my father did. What was his secret? Genes, maybe, since he di...
JENNIFER GRANT My childhood dream was always to be on Broadway. I wanted to end up in TV and film. It's kind of...
GRANT GUSTIN Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-six years: with an idiot -- in...
MIRA GRANT What is the death of a soldier even off duty of an occupying army walking in an occupied territory a...
LINDA GRANT I think that's the whole point of Bridget Jones. It's all about that it's okay to fail.
HUGH GRANT I used to pre-rehearse everything and then bring my pre-rehearsed performance to the set. Now, I'...
HUGH GRANT I used to pre-rehearse everything and then bring my pre-rehearsed performance to the set. Now, I'...
HUGH GRANT Brexit was a fantastic example of a nation shooting itself full in the face.
HUGH GRANT The artists realise it will take time. It is an upliftment process.
EDDY GRANT There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not So...
EDDY GRANT I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claimin...
EDDY GRANT Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning...
GRANT MORRISON I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.
HUGH GRANT I'm a really hectic dreamer; I never wake up not out of a dream, and there's loads going on,...
LINDA GRANT Times were very hard if you were a poor, politically correct Jewish girl living in the east end of L...
LINDA GRANT Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll ...
HUGH GRANT 'Notting Hill?' Does that poke fun at being British? Maybe it does. In 'Mickey Blue Eyes...
HUGH GRANT My home kitchen is airy, with a gas stove, a stainless-steel island table in the center and granite ...
GRANT ACHATZ If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.
AMY GRANT He’s a murdering chud,” Zil was yelling.
“What do you want to do? Lynch him?” Astrid de...
MICHAEL GRANT When I look back at the pictures of our blended family the day Vince and I married, he and I are smi...
AMY GRANT I want us to cool down for a while before we end up on horses' said Scully.

'What?' Hank ...
CHARLES GRANT Scared people did scary things sometimes,
MICHAEL GRANT Nothing is impossible to kill. It's just that sometimes after you kill something you have to keep sh...
MIRA GRANT He didn't mind if she hated him. They were never going to be a cute romantic couple like Sam and Ast...
MICHAEL GRANT Look at us! Are we not proof that there is no good, no evil, no truth, no reason? Are we not proof t...
GRANT MORRISON Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get olde...
GRANT HILL I'm not a combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the iss...
ALISTAIR GRANT I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
GRANT HILL The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s.
JAMES GRANT The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war t...
LINDA GRANT I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think t...
GRANT SHOW Divorce is a game played by lawyers.
CARY GRANT I improve on misquotation.
CARY GRANT I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think ...
GRANT SHOW Sam was slow getting up. To Quinn he looked like an old man standing up after slipping on the ice. B...
MICHAEL GRANT Yelling doesn't get your point across, it only makes it louder.
GRANT HILL 'Ernest Borgnine' is sort of my version of Woody Allen's 'Purple Rose Of Cairo' ...
JOHN GRANT Now, with Annie gone, I'm looking for a new dog. I have a lot of duck hunting planned, and I can...
BUD GRANT I had a MRSA infection on my ankle. At the time, I had never heard of MRSA. I didn't really know...
GRANT HILL I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don...
AMY GRANT Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.
HUGH GRANT Regardless of the obstacles or hurdles that are ahead of you, regardless of the opponent, regardless...
GRANT HILL And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quali...
HUGH GRANT Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its indepe...
RICHARD GRANT Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a s...
ANNE GRANT I'm angry because I was so scared for so many years about just being myself.
JOHN GRANT My life has been such a blur since I was 18, 19 years old. I haven't even had time to contemplat...
GRANT ACHATZ I frequently dream of having tea with the Queen.
HUGH GRANT When I was in my 20s in the 1970s, I read all of Jean Rhys. I have reread very little since because ...
LINDA GRANT Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.
AMY GRANT Tone is so important because you can have a great script just be ruined with the wrong director - if...
BETH GRANT Did you throw a rock at my brother?” Astrid yelled, fearless in her outrage. She dropped to her kn...
MICHAEL GRANT Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.
AMY GRANT When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcas...
LINDA GRANT The fans of 'Speed' are very different from the fans of 'To Wong Foo,' which are dif...
BETH GRANT The process was remarkably cathartic. I'd sit and listen to my father's voice - having not h...
JENNIFER GRANT We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we shi...
CARY GRANT The truth is, I'd never seen a Cary Grant film. Since then I have watched his stuff and it's...
HUGH GRANT