Adam Grant Quotes

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

I don't think love is a tricky issue at all. Love is best understood when we share: Share time, energy, food, resources, insights, information, whatever. It's usually thought of as something that exists between two people, but that's just because it's easier to see and feel in the space between them. Each person is sharing a lot with the other.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

In a relationship you want to treat people the way you want to be treated.

Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very, very deep in us and is very easily obscured, and is also very easily denied, which is the instinct towards the other person, other than toward the self.

I think, when you get to know somebody on a personal level were you truly understand what makes them tick, what they play for, things they like to do in their spare time, you're around their families, I think you're kind of able to kind of coexist more when you have a relationship.

Here's the thing: When you become brilliant at listening, people feel that you care about them. When they feel you care about them, they begin to care about you. And when people care about you, your success becomes a part of how they define their success.

Actors are not all there when it comes to things like relationships. The thing about us is we still greatly enjoy each other. If it weren't for her support it would be hard for me to do what I am doing now.

I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Compassion is a two way street.

You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Mutual respect! That's what it takes to be friends.

I think that our view of love and family informs our work, the way we empathize with people.

Be there for people, and they'll be there for you.

Friendship is the most important thing of all.

Acting is about communicating, reacting, and sharing - and friendship is about all of those things, too.

It's important to have frank discussions about what the other wants. To be in a relationship that is like a little lifetime, that's a challenge.

Any relationship has its strengths and weakness.