Adam Grant Quotes

The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.

… maintain the integrity and flexibility of our teachings

People, they don't know how to bend; they just break.

The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.

There's always a lot of pressure with big projects and so as a writer you have to be robust and flexible, with a tough hide.

We explore within postures everything we deal with in life: the interplay between resistance and surrender; establishing stability and maintaining flexibility; learning to receive and release; being present to all the complexities of our lives, and returning to the fundamentals of our "beginner's mind" again and again.

Flexibility is the key to stability.

It is not balance you need but adaptability.

It’s a matter of time; you adapt to the different culture and different way of life. Human beings are adaptable.

O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

I can cope with nine of them, so they ought to be able to stand one of me. They could end the tiresomeness and stubbornness by giving me what I want.

Information is shock resistance. Arm yourself.

It would be very hard for me to do things somebody else's way.

Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.

If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.

In a world where lifelong employment in the same job is a thing of the past, creativity is not a luxury. It is essential for personal security and fulfillment.

It's amazing what happens when you stick yourself in a place and let things take their more or less natural course.

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

If there's a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things. The powers-that-be can break up any big thing they want. They can corrupt it or co-opt it from the inside, or they can attack it from the outside. But what are they going to do about 10 million little things? They break up two of them, and three more like them spring up!

You can talk about strategy all you want, but what really matters is resiliency.

I have a range, and I'd much rather do things the nice way than the hard way, but sometimes you have to use all the tools at your disposal.

An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.

Where position is felt to be a birthright, generosity is possible (though not guaranteed); flexibility is not inhibited by a commitment to perpetual success.

Competent people are the most resistant to change