Angela Duckworth Quotes

Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.

Angela Duckworth

Angela Duckworth

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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.

Idina Menzel
- Risk
- Feel
- Audience
For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

Pam Brown
- Nature
- Spring
- Will
The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.

Karl Ove Knausgaard
- Up
- God
- Eye
For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.

Carlos Alazraqui
- Character
- Season
- Nervous
Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.

Talib Kweli Black Star
- Great
- Nature
- Compliment
As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.

Samuel Barber
- Music
- Book
- Piano