Angela Duckworth Quotes
Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.
Angela Duckworth
Quotes to Explore
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
Forest Whitaker
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
J. B. Smoove
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
Rafael dos Anjos
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Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
Karen Bender
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It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.
Tavi Gevinson
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'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.
Hanneli Mustaparta
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The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.
Randall Terry
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
Madeleine Stowe
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
Dan Pink
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Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
Patrick Rothfuss
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
Lance Secretan
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Fannie Mae has traditionally only bought and sold mortgages. But when a loan held by the company goes into foreclosure, Fannie Mae gains ownership of the underlying property until it is resold to new investors.
Charles Duhigg
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One of the hardest things to do for business people and leaders is to keep the team focused on achieving the goal.
Clay Clark
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I'm a writer. I'm moonlighting on television. I never made any pretensions to that. As much as I like being on 'Real Sports,' I have been a writer since I was a little boy, and that's still my first love.
Frank Deford
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What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that suddenly make something Christian art? Must the artist’s subject be religious to be Christian? I don’t think so. There is a certain sense in which art is its own justification. If art is good art, if it is true art, if it is beautiful art, then it is bearing witness to the Author of the good, the true, and the beautiful
R. C. Sproul
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You're part of an American family, and we're going to pull for you.
Barbara Mikulski
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Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.
Angela Duckworth
