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Angela Duckworth Quotes

At various points, in big ways and small, we get knocked down. If we stay down, grit loses. If we get up, grit prevails.

Angela Duckworth

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: psychologist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1970

Topics

Small Grit Down Up Big Knocked

Watching TV is the most popular leisure activity in Britain. I find that very depressing.

Find Watching Leisure Depressing TV

People are friendlier in New York than London.

New York People New London Than

Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started drifting back to the countryside and the sea. Perhaps it's a homing instinct.

Family Live Sea Time Wife Me

I was discovered at 16, so all I've done is be a communicator and an entertainer all my life, and my energy is who I am in real life.

Life I Am Energy My Life Done Real

I think we're in the beginning of a bull market. When a bull market begins, nine months later the economy turns around.

Sumner Redstone

Beginning Think Bull Economy Market

I grew up in a very normal home.

Home Up Normal Very Grew

I don't want to find myself designing for the press.

Myself Find Want Press Designing

While novels are fiction, mine are usually very close to my heart. Like my other books, 'The Lemon Orchard' is inspired by something I care about. I care so deeply. The stories are my dreams, and I want to do a lot of research. Roberto is based on a real live friend of mine named Armando who worked in my garden.

Friend Dreams Live Heart Research

In fairness, I don't think that everyone understands what I say, but I think they understand part of it and part of what the issues are... Just the same way that people like a good painting, I think people really like understanding, knowing about the world.

Good People Painting World Think

A lot of rap music can get repetitive.

Brantley Gilbert

Music Rap Music Rap Get Repetitive

I'm a documentary image maker, still and moving, because keeping the real world on the agenda is really important at a time when we're increasingly disconnected from parts of the world on whom we depend.

Tim Hetherington

Time Moving World Important Image

No one, however long they have held the post, lightly gives up the great office of Chancellor of the Exchequer. Certainly I did not.

Great Long Office Up Post Lightly

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