Adam Grant Quotes

As you get older, as you become more sensitive, feel more, it becomes harder to make jokes. You censor yourself.

I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.

It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities.

Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.

I'm very sane about how crazy I am.

I tend to not wallow too much in sentiment if I can avoid it.

I internalise things. My sorrows and joys are private.

I can't just say everything that I feel because, at the end of the day, I am a product.

I probably need to hold my emotions in check a little more, but that's just part of my wiring, too.

The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

I don't vocalise things that don't deserve attention.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.

Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.

I ran into an extraordinary doctor. He got up inside my head and figured out how my brain processed things, what my core values were, what my inner dialogue was.

I tend to keep things that bother me clandestine... well-hidden. I'm also not very good at recognising the reasons that change my moods - they just seem to happen, which is not great for those around me.

The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

I'm not someone who's particularly in touch with the way they feel. I've heard it said that you should be a 'human being' not a 'human doing', but I'm a human doing, very much so.

I am president and do not have the right to give in to emotions. I have bad moods, very bad moods, but I never feel despair.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Our thoughts are certainly part of us; they come from us, but we are not our thoughts. Have you ever woken up in the morning and said to yourself, 'I am not going to think today; I am too tired'? No, of course not. Just as breathing happens and is constant, thoughts happen, and they are also constant.

Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.