Angela Duckworth Quotes
If you're never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you'll never get better.
Quotes to Explore
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.
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All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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I don't think, by the way, that any network would have given us their show to release all 13 episodes once ahead of them, and the same way, I don't think any studio will give us their movies to release the same day they are in the theaters - not yet, not yet.
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I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.
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In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.
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In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment.
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Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
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I love westerns. I've always wanted to do a western.
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I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.
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It's hard for me to judge my own films as an artist sometimes. But as an artist, I did feel a fulfillment working on them, you know?
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The tutor gave us our work, and if we had trouble, she'd help us on it, but we were really only working on the stuff that our school gave us - well, I was, because I go to a public school.
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Sometimes you want a Part Two in your life.
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
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Pain is never permanent.
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You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.
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He remembered suddenly, at this moment, as he looked at the squares of moonlight lying on the floor, the time when he had first realized that pain is a thing that we must face and come to terms with if life is to be lived with dignity an not merely muddled through like an evil dream... In some vague way he had understood that dark things are necessary; without them the silver moonlight would just stream away into nothingness, but with them it can be held and arranged into beautiful squares.
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He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
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If you're never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you'll never get better.
