Angela Duckworth Quotes
What we reliably find is that people's perseverance scores are actually higher than their passion scores, and I think it really does get to the fact that working hard is hard, but maybe finding your passion is even more difficult.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual', but bi-curious? Yea.
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For me, if I'm just killing time, I play solitaire. I'm also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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I find the business world hard.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.
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You can't take good health for granted.
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When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.
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Business is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of poverty. When you think about it that way, then business is not separate from development policy.
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What Western society teaches us is that if you get enough money, power, and beautiful people to have sex with, that's going to bring you happiness. That's what every commercial, every magazine, music, movie teaches us. That's a fallacy.
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I want to go working with good people on something that's good, because otherwise it's a big waste of time. I don't have that much time.
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What we reliably find is that people's perseverance scores are actually higher than their passion scores, and I think it really does get to the fact that working hard is hard, but maybe finding your passion is even more difficult.
