Angela Duckworth Quotes
Some of the things we do are great, but they often have these iterations that are not great. We screw up sometimes. We get rejected.
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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Just try to get the puck and make plays, not so much worry about scoring or getting an assist or points, just try to get it and make plays. That should take care of itself.
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So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn.
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I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It's wild and incredible.
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Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.
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We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.
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The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.
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It's so easy to look foolish online.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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We had a poster of the Davis Cup in 1986. It was in Prague, the Czech Republic against Sweden, and we went to watch, so I got the poster. You couldn't get all the posters. You were lucky if you got one.
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Music, performance, and a woman is very rarely accepted within Muslim communities.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.
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Some of the things we do are great, but they often have these iterations that are not great. We screw up sometimes. We get rejected.
