"Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but itâ€™s valuable in a marathon."

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Source : Adam Grant (2013). “Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success”, p.20, Penguin

Adam Grant

#Yards Quotes #Marathon Quotes #Giver Quotes

“I'm from Canada and my wife is from St. Albans, so I feel a great kinship with the Brits.”
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
“One way in which all of us can help to combat the current wave of public indecency which threatens to undermine Western civilization is to concentrate upon and increase the solidarity of the family. This solidarity begins with a child at the mother's breast.”
“My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.”
“There's no real reason for me to be so obsessed with trying to understand the true nature of things. You can live a perfectly happy life being utterly confused and not knowing.”
“[God brought African slaves to America] so that their descendants would know freedom.”
“Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.”
“It's kind of a test, Mary, and it's the only kind that amounts to anything. When something rotten like this happens, then you have your choice. You start to really be alive, or you start to die. That's all.”

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