Angela Duckworth Quotes

Most people who are really, enduringly interested in something eventually find that it's important, too - and important to other people. Very few people can keep going their whole life doing something and feel like it's merely personally fascinating.

Angela Duckworth

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• I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Life
  • Truth
  • My Life

• If I were to listen to people all the time when they say, 'Hey, this is a really high challenge, this is a high climb, the bar is pretty steep,' then I wouldn't have gone to the academy. I wouldn't have become an aircraft carrier pilot. I wouldn't have become a Navy SEAL for sure. And I probably wouldn't have applied to Harvard.

  

  Gabriel E. Gomez
  • People
  • Time
  • High

• The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Important
  • American
  • America

• Women's inclusion in the economy is one of the most important issues in Israel.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Important
  • Women
  • Economy

• After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Life
  • Death
  • Fear

• We don't really have a place in the universe, as far as on a timeline. But nothing else does, either. Therefore every moment really is the most important moment that's ever happened, including this moment right now.

  

  Kaki King
  • Important
  • Universe
  • Moment

• We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Movement
  • Potential

• I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Life
  • Money
  • Simple

• We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Real
  • Know

• Quite understandably, people think that if there's a six-year gap or whatever, that it's taken me six years to make the album. It's not really like that at all.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Album
  • Gap

• The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Today
  • Eyes

• The women who don't feel that people think they're sexy are the ones who seem to titillate in that way, because they don't feel like they're getting that kind of approval.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • People
  • Women
  • Sexy

• After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • People
  • Great
  • May

• Life is one long jubilee.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Life
  • Long
  • Jubilee

• Every kid has a laptop; everyone can make music, so in order to stand out, I think it's important to find that sonic identity, I think my sonic identity - and mine is finding these weird sounds that may not necessarily sound that musical, and make them sound musical.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Important
  • May

• Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • People
  • History
  • Bear

• I love 'Battles,' and I love what it's doing for people.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Love
  • Doing

• People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • People
  • Certainly
  • Lively

• All that time is lost which might be better employed.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Time
  • Lost

• There is a lot to look at when you are serious about transformation. You look at everything you've ever done, every circumstance you've ever been in, cleaning up everything in your past. Reconciling, forgiving others, forgiving yourself. It's a lot of work, actually.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• To meditate is to listen with a receptive heart.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Heart
  • Listen
  • Meditate

• I don't really get star-struck, but I do get talent struck. If I meet somebody that I think is just wildly talented and brilliant, that's when I start getting nervous.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Think
  • Star
  • Start

• Americans are the friendliest people you will encounter, but they have few friends.

  

  Dinesh D'Souza
  • People
  • Friends

• Most people who are really, enduringly interested in something eventually find that it's important, too - and important to other people. Very few people can keep going their whole life doing something and feel like it's merely personally fascinating.

  

  Angela Duckworth
  • People
  • Life
  • Important