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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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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Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.
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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
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I remember it as if it were today... seeing him [Che] framed in the viewfinder, with that expression. I am still startled by the impact... it shakes me so powerfully. (On his iconic photo of Che Guevara)
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How many of us, who are engaged in the Lord's holy service, are secretly cherishing some proud purpose of excelling other men, of making a name, of securing money and applause.
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As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.
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Good songs are what a good band is all about. When you have a good song that stands up to the test of the time, that is the most important thing.
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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.
