"People tend to have one of three 'styles' of interaction. There are takers, who are always trying to serve themselves; matchers, who are always trying to get equal benefit for themselves and others; and givers, who are always trying to help people."

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Source : "Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success". Book by Adam Grant, www.businessinsider.com. 2013.

Adam Grant

#People Quotes #Style Quotes #Trying Quotes

“You can't really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk rock kicked against, the pretentiousness.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“It is difficult to say what is impossible”
“Meryl [Stripe]spoke out about the low percentage of female critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Why are there 760 male critics and just 168 women? You are immediately [biased] on what kind of films you are being told to go see. What are you told are good films? Male films.”
“Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!”
“In the course of history, all empires have been created with premeditation, by an effort often sustained over several generations. Every power has been Roman to a degree. The United States is the first nation to become the most powerful in the world without having sought to be so. Its exceptional energy and organization have never been oriented toward conquest.”
“No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States and compounding the American people into one common mass.”

Source : John Marshall (1839). “The Writings of John Marshall: Late Chief Justice of the United States, Upon the Federal Constitution”, p.162
“When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.”
“None can be free who is a slave to, and ruled by, his passions.”

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