Angela Duckworth Quotes

Grit and self-control are related, but they're not the same thing.

Angela Duckworth

Recitation: by Male by Female

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I like to be a strategic policy guy.

Jim DeMint

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One thing that always frustrated me was that, while Benjamin Franklin's was the best-known face of the eighteenth century, no one ever took his sister's likeness.

Jill Lepore

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You can't un-have an experience. You can deny the experience; you can process it and try to get through it, but you can't change the fact that it happened to you.

Jennifer Nettles

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What was once a fringe idea - finding a way to use the record levels of overseas capital to finance new projects in the United States - is now mainstream. The support is there; we just have to work out the details.

John Delaney

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I did spend much of my 20s sitting on a couch playing video games and ordering disgusting food.

John Gemberling

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One who understands the relationships between the human heart and the human mind will always out-hack those who chase after an ever-changing technology.

John McAfee

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Athletes and actors do really crazy things, and we do them under weird circumstances because we love what we do and because we take things in an extreme manner.

Anika Noni Rose

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There are great advantages of making things on the independent market. There's freedom and control there, and kind of a cleanness to the process that I like.

Jeff Nichols

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Washington is not a city that takes great pride in being a healthy place, necessarily. Now, I have no data. That's just my own observation.

Tom Rath

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The Sabbath provides a wonderful opportunity to strengthen family ties.

Russell M. Nelson

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I don't believe in depriving myself; it's an unhealthy state of mind.

Mary Helen Bowers

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I am... stubborn, and I admit it, so it's OK.

Mila Kunis

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