Adam M. Grant quote: "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."

Instead of courage' management guru Tom Peters recommends fostering 'a level of fury with the status...
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Merely knowing that you are not the only resister makes it substantially easier to reject the crowd.
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The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader." - Quoting Derek Sivers
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One participant got so angry after thinking about the insulting feedback that hitting the punching b...
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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.
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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...
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I believe that the most meaningful way to succeed is to help other people succeed.
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It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment,...
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One of the signs of a bad coworker is a pattern of persistent undermining - intentionally hindering ...
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To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people c...
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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

Tweeting has taught me the discipline to say more with fewer words.
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

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.
GRANT M. BRIGHT

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life...
GRANT M. BRIGHT

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
GRANT M. BRIGHT

You REAP what You SOW: Life is like a boomerang. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner o...
GRANT M. BRIGHT

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life...
GRANT M. BRIGHT

She clambered to the shoreline. Numb and shaken, she began to dress. It wasn’t easy as she fumbled...
JEAN M. GRANT

Perhaps we can start counting those kisses once more. I think you owe me a few.
JEAN M. GRANT

A cloud of white death veiled in black…
JEAN M. GRANT

Did he actually believe in this curse? A curse! He snorted. Deirdre stirred.
Impossible. Curse...
JEAN M. GRANT

The scene unfolded before him as though he were a ghost.
His mother stood on the raised stump,...
JEAN M. GRANT

Glen Shiel, Socttish Highlands, 1296
Strife abounds. King Edward of England has invaded the sou...
JEAN M. GRANT

What we're doing here is completely in line with the principles of fair use. We think this will help...
ADAM M. SMITH

We think most publishers and authors will choose to participate in the publisher program in order to...
ADAM M. SMITH

I am a diamond
But people see me as gold
Honestly, I wanna be silver
M

-I would die for you
-You lie
-If I lie, why do I stand here before and beg on my knees t...
M

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

Morals; the pathetic answer to authority
Seen two gorillas sharing a banana?
M. COCHET M.

I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be.
M. M. COADY

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

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

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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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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