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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You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.
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I'm a music person. Music is, for me, the best way to cure any sort of anxiety or icky feelings. I think it immediately takes you out of your element and makes some other person do the work for your thoughts.
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Don't go where I can't follow!
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Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.
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If you're never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you'll never get better.
