Adam M. Grant · 320 pages
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“As Samuel Johnson purportedly wrote, “The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”
― Adam M. Grant, quote from Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
“The more I help out, the more successful I become. But I measure success in what it has done for the people around me. That is the real accolade.”
― Adam M. Grant, quote from Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
“The art of advocacy is to lead you to my conclusion on your terms.”
― Adam M. Grant, quote from Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
“This is what I find most magnetic about successful givers: they get to the top without cutting others down, finding ways of expanding the pie that benefit themselves and the people around them. Whereas success is zero-sum in a group of takers, in groups of givers, it may be true that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.”
― Adam M. Grant, quote from Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
“Success doesn’t measure a human being, effort does.”
― Adam M. Grant, quote from Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
“Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it’s valuable in a marathon.”
― Adam M. Grant, quote from Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
“If we create networks with the sole intention of getting something, we won’t succeed. We can’t pursue the benefits of networks; the benefits ensue from investments in meaningful activities and relationships.”
― Adam M. Grant, quote from Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
“highly successful people have three things in common: motivation, ability, and opportunity.”
― Adam M. Grant, quote from Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
“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.”
― Adam M. Grant, quote from Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. —Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner”
― Adam M. Grant, quote from Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
“highly successful people have three things in common: motivation, ability, and opportunity. If we want to succeed, we need a combination of hard work, talent, and luck.”
― Adam M. Grant, quote from Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
“Americans see independence as a symbol of strength, viewing interdependence as a sign of weakness”
― Adam M. Grant, quote from Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
“So if givers are most likely to land at the bottom of the success ladder, who’s at the top—takers or matchers? Neither. When I took another look at the data, I discovered a surprising pattern: It’s the givers again.”
― Adam M. Grant, quote from Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
“Regardless of their reciprocity styles, people love to be asked for advice.”
― Adam M. Grant, quote from Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
“When our audiences are skeptical, the more we try to dominate them, the more they resist.”
― Adam M. Grant, quote from Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
“Many people who hold giver values in life choose matching as their primary reciprocity style at work, seeking an even balance of give and take.”
― Adam M. Grant, quote from Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
“When takers win, there’s usually someone else who loses. Research shows that people tend to envy successful takers and look for ways to knock them down a notch. In contrast, when givers like David Hornik win, people are rooting for them and supporting them, rather than gunning for them. Givers succeed in a way that creates a ripple effect, enhancing the success of people around them.”
― Adam M. Grant, quote from Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
“Indeed, Cialdini finds that people donate more money to charity when the phrase “even a penny will help” is added to a request.”
― Adam M. Grant, quote from Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
“New research shows that advice seeking is a surprisingly effective strategy for exercising influence when we lack authority. In”
― Adam M. Grant, quote from Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
“The fear of being judged as weak or naïve prevents many people from operating like givers at work.”
― Adam M. Grant, quote from Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
“research shows that givers get extra credit when they offer ideas that challenge the status quo.”
― Adam M. Grant, quote from Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
“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”
― Adam M. Grant, quote from Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
“Even with a receptive audience, dominance is a zero-sum game: the more power and authority I have, the less you have.”
― Adam M. Grant, quote from Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
“the higher the psychological safety in a unit, the fewer errors they made. Why? In the units that lacked psychological safety, health care professionals hid their errors, fearing retribution. As a result, they weren’t able to learn from their mistakes. In the units with high psychological safety, on the other hand, reporting errors made it possible to prevent them moving forward.”
― Adam M. Grant, quote from Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
“But there’s a twist: expressing vulnerability is only effective if the audience receives other signals establishing the speaker’s competence.”
― Adam M. Grant, quote from Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
“It’s not what a player is, but what he can become… that will allow him to grow.”
― Adam M. Grant, quote from Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
“psychological safety—the belief that you can take a risk without being penalized or punished.”
― Adam M. Grant, quote from Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
“When the average candidate was clumsy, audiences liked him even less. But when the expert was clumsy, audiences liked him even more.”
― Adam M. Grant, quote from Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
“Talented people are attracted to those who care about them.”
― Adam M. Grant, quote from Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
“Research suggests that there are two fundamental paths to influence: dominance and prestige. When we establish dominance, we gain influence because others see us as strong, powerful, and authoritative. When we earn prestige, we become influential because others respect and admire us.”
― Adam M. Grant, quote from Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
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“But you love books, then,” Aunt Queen was saying. I had to listen.
“Oh, yes,” Lestat said. “Sometimes they are the only thing that keeps me alive.”
“What a strange thing to say at your age,” she laughed.
“No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don’t you think? The young are eternally desperate,” he said frankly. “And books, they offer one hope —- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that new universe, one is saved.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Blackwood Farm
“إما أن تصبح المرأة مستقبل الرجل أو ينتهي أمر الانسانية لأن المرأة وحده تستطيع ان تحتفظ في داخلها بامل لا يبرره شيء , وتدعونا الى مستقبل مشكوك فيه كنا سنكف عن الايمان به منذ زمن طويل بدون نساء . بقيت طوال حياتي مستعدا لتتبع صوتهن حتى لو كان صوتا مجنونا , في حين أني قد أكون أي شيء إلا مجنونا . لا يوجد ما هو أجمل من الانقياد نحو المجهول لصوتٍ مجنون لمن ليس مجنونا. عندها ردد بفخامة الكلمات الالمانية " تقودنا الأنثى الخالدة نحو الأعلى ”
― Milan Kundera, quote from Immortality
“But could you just... stay for tonight?”
― Aimee Carter, quote from The Goddess Test
“Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?”
― Alice Sebold, quote from Lucky
“The great are deceived if they imagine they have appropriated ambition and vanity to themselves. These notable qualities flourish as notably in a country church and churchyard as in the drawing room or in the closet. Schemes have indeed been laid in the vestry, which would hardly disgrace the conclave. Here is a ministry, and here is an opposition. Here are plots and circumventions, parties and factions equal to those which are to be found in courts. Nor are the women here less practiced in the highest feminine arts than their fair superiors in quality and fortune. Here are prudes and coquettes; here are dressing and ogling, falsehood, envy, malice, scandal -- in short everything which is common to the most splendid assembly or politest circle.”
― Henry Fielding, quote from The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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