Adam Grant Quotes

Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.

It's harder to be kind than clever

one never knows really how things are with other people, they just do always seem more spirited than oneself somehow.

Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought.

Emotions are our spontaneous response to life. We have these emotions, but if the emotion is a negative emotion, then I have a choice to say, "I am feeling sad tonight because this happened, but I am not going to let my sadness keep me from engaging my wife in conversation. "

I'm now much more aware of my mental state. I have a lot more control over it and can choose how I feel.

Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.

All living beings have experience of pleasure and pain, and we are among them. What makes human beings different is that we have a powerful intelligence and a much greater ability to achieve happiness and avoid suffering. Real happiness and friendship come not from money or even knowledge, but from warm-heartednes s. Once we recognize this we will be more inclined to cultivate it.

Emotions have no I.Q.

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

Emotional intelligence grows through perception. Look around at your present situation and observe it through the level of feeling.

The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.

A brain with no heart and no reasoning ... well, nothing is more meaningless.

Measure your emotions. You don't need an atomic explosion for a minor point.

Emotional Literacy means being able to recognise what you are feeling, so that it doesn't interfere with thinking. It becomes another dimension to draw upon when making decisions or encountering situations. Emotional expression by contrast can mean being driven by emotions, so that it isn't possible to think. These two things are often confused, because we are still uncomfortable with the idea of the validity of feelings.

I think that every decision I make in my life is based off of an emotion - and it definitely hurts me in some situations, and helps in some situations, like obviously writing and stuff is my favourite thing to do because I get to use all of my emotions and express them in that way.

Without love, intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence, love is not enough.

For better or worse, intelligence can come to nothing when emotions hold sway.

Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Intelligence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellectually and emotionally.

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.

I'm very careful with my emotions, and I don't let them run free. If I'm upset, it's usually for a very good, very deep reason.

If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.

Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway - we just disguise them as logic.

We have the choice to choose how we're going to educate our emotions.

Today I will be the master of my emotions.