Adam Grant Quotes

I always have issues with trust.

Sometimes you don't know who you can and cannot trust. I still learn that over and over again.

When you don't trust people all of the sudden you stop trusting anything.

Don't believe me, don't believe yourself, and don't believe anyone else.

Sweet Skepticism of the Heart That knows and does not know And tosses like a Fleet of Balm Affronted by the snow.

I still harbor lingering doubts about most people. I guess I always will.

I'm always suspicious of people, especially being in a weird realm of people kind of knowing me... and not knowing what people's motives might be.

Suspicion follows close on mistrust.

The more someone assures you that everything is okay, the more you can be assured that it's not.

Paranoia plays into all of us. Trust is a terrifying idea of not knowing who we can rely on.

Nor can you trust in God because everything that you attempt to trust is coming from someone who is not trustworthy to begin with. So everything that you think, feel or act upon is based upon coming from someone who is untrustworthy. Therefore, you'll always be lost.

I'll tell you something, Harpy," he said, his voice almost a whisper now. "It never even occurred to me that we wouldn't make it. And it never occurred to you that we would. You were just waiting for us to go down in flames. I thought we could get through anything.

I wonder men dare trust themselves with men.

Tyrion let the eunuch help him mount. "Lord Varys," he said from the saddle, "sometimes I feel as though you are the best friend I have in King's Landing and sometimes I feel you are my worst enemy." "How odd. I think quite the same of you.

I'm not comfortable, for myself and for others. And yet, one has these people whom you trust, have faith in, whom you believe see what you see, and then you come up against a moment where you feel suddenly tossed out. So I was really interested in those moments.

I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends.

She knew few words and believed in none.

As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to.

There's really kind of nobody we can trust.

Don't do this to us." He warned, his voice hoarse with angry desperation as he realize he was losing her. "You're letting eleven years of mistrust color everything you've discovered I've done".

She hated him and loved him, longed for him and loathed him, and cursed herself for feeling anything at all

No, Michael, I do not trust you on a boat, I do not trust you on a goat. I do not trust you here. I do not trust you there. I do not trust you anywhere.

And trust dies from ifs and buts

Are you gloating inside? That's what this is about, isn't it? Getting me to trust you so you could blow it up in my face!" [...] "I get that you're angry—," said Patch. "I am ripped apart!" I shouted.

It's not that I don't trust you, Dunstable, it's simply that I don't trust you.