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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The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
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A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.
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It's an incredible thing when you are creating something in a moment with the other people on stage and with an audience, and you are all experiencing it together as it exists in that one night. It's a magical feeling.
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It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. As Henry Ford said many years earlier: "If I had listened to my customers, I would have built a faster horse." Inventions in general express Shannon entropy. They come from the supply side.
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I think people love this idea of leaving a message for the future. I was always fascinated by the idea of time capsules.
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When people tell me I can't do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, 'Yes, I can.'
