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 try to be this kind of player: the type who does something whenever he gets the ball. Sometimes in the past, I've gone through games where I've not touched the ball for 20 or 30 minutes.
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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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As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry.
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There is a huge misconception that if you do something like hot yoga, you'll burn more calories, and the opposite is true. You want to heat your body from the inside out, not the outside in.
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From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.
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When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.
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People close to me called me 'Curry in a Hurry.' I was moving through life at 100 miles an hour trying to further my career and be a great mom and make everyone happy.
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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.
