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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I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.
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Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.
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There is no possible justification or excuse for marketing dangerous weapons to children as if they were toys.
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I'm constantly on the go and have found rushing round after a new born baby is the best form of exercise! I always remind myself that men appreciate a womanly shape and some curves!
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The real trick to these movies and making the big action sequences work - and I've forgotten this sometimes and screwed it up - the characters really have to be humanized. Because you can have the greatest special effects in the world, but if you don't care about the people in those effects, there's no impact.
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When people tell me I can't do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, 'Yes, I can.'
