Angela Duckworth Quotes

Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it's not just stamina in your effort. It's also stamina in your direction, stamina in your interests. If you are working on different things but all of them very hard, you're not really going to get anywhere. You'll never become an expert.

Angela Duckworth

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I'm a happy mum. I didn't think it was in the cards for me, so I feel very blessed.

Jewel

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Layer by layer art strips life bare.

Robert Musil

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You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.

Ani DiFranco

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Every minute counts. Being on time or not can mean the difference of a win or a loss and even of something positive or negative happening in life.

Stan Wawrinka

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All chain saws are formidable and dangerous.

Sue Hubbell

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Telltale signs that your movie is going to go bad is, one, the producer of the movie flees the country.

Robert Ben Garant

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I detest the niqab and the burka for their erasure of women and for dangerously equating piety with that disappearance - the less of you I can see, the closer you must be to God.

Mona Eltahawy

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Some of my best experiences are with writer/directors. Guy Ritchie is one. I feel they have a clearer view of what they want to do. They haven't got to try and interpret someone's writing; it's all theirs. I really admire that.

Jason Statham

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Anybody that's a Dolphins fan feels they're headed in the right direction.

Don Shula

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And living in a metropolitan area which is ethnically diverse, our lives are very complicated, so our emotional experiences are going to be varied like that.

Debbie Harry

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After putting the kids to bed, I would think about what I wanted to write.

Clive Cussler

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I'm raising my family in The Church, and I'm proud of that.

Brandon Flowers

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