Angela Duckworth Quotes
I define talent as the rate at which you get better at something when you try. To be very talented means you get better faster and more easily than other people or other things that you try.Angela Duckworth
Quotes to Explore
-
The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
Sam Altman -
I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
Daniel Craig -
I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
Vicky Hartzler -
After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
Ingrid Betancourt -
I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.
Oren Peli -
It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
Carine Roitfeld
-
There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.
Adam Hasner -
I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
Natasha Calis -
I just don't think men fancy me.
Gail Porter -
A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
Salman Rushdie -
Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
Dan Rather -
There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
P. D. James
-
All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
Walter Payton -
I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
J. P. Donleavy -
The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
Natalie Imbruglia -
For my life, I need to make my own choices.
Kangana Ranaut -
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
Randy Pausch -
'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
M. J. Rose
-
Whether you draw diagrams that generate code or you type at a browser, you are coding.
Kent Beck -
I do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a bit stir-crazy to be cooped up in there, so I'll grab my laptop and write somewhere else: another room in the house, out on the patio, or even Heaven-forbid, a trip to Starbucks. But I also write on the road.
James Rollins -
I grew up in the large house and the larger garden of my parents in Altenberg. They were supremely tolerant of my inordinate love for animals.
Konrad Lorenz -
As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
Nancy Gibbs -
We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.
Nelson Mandela -
I define talent as the rate at which you get better at something when you try. To be very talented means you get better faster and more easily than other people or other things that you try.
Angela Duckworth