Angela Duckworth Quotes
When people tell me I can't do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, 'Yes, I can.'
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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From my experience in working with bureaucrats and politicians, if you are a credible business group, they will definitely help you. At the end of the day, they, too, want development of their constituency, state or country.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.
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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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I myself am going to try to tone down some of my rhetoric, and I would invite my Democrat friends - and they are friends - to do likewise.
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The consensus is that no more than five to ten people in a hundred who die by gunfire in Los Angeles are any loss to society. These people fight small wars amongst themselves. It would seem a valid social service to keep them well-supplied with ammunition.
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You will find it will almost always be more comfortable to sit on the sidelines and critique the builders from afar. But at the end of the day, the people who make a difference, the people who shape history, are not the haters.
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When people tell me I can't do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, 'Yes, I can.'
