Angela Duckworth Quotes
Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
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If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.
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Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'
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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
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The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.
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You don't want to do something that's all terrifying.
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When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life.
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At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.
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I'm the first one in line to go watch 'Spider-Man', but there's definitely something in me that makes me want to go to a movie and see something that makes me feel good about life.
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I am a bad planner, and my friends would vouch for it.
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Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.
