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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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 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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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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When you do something young enough and you train for it, it just becomes a part of you.
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Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, For he's a fiend in feline shape, a monster of depravity. You may meet him in a by-street, you may see him in the square - But when a crime's discovered, then Macavity's not there!
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Divorces are made in Heaven.
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You don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. (1 April 1939)
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If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner.
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If you're never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you'll never get better.
