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Angela Duckworth Quotes

If you're never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you'll never get better.

Angela Duckworth

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: psychologist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1970

Topics

Pain Better You Never Discomfort

I think literary theory satisfied a deep love I have for big, encompassing narratives about the world and how it works - which are usually, in the end, more creative visions unto themselves than illuminating explanations.

Love Creative World Deep Think End

I think a life of a human being is not something you can explain in a few interview questions. The stuff you do in the media is sometimes a great reflection and sometimes not a great reflection of who you are as a person.

Life Great Reflection Think Media

I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens.

Book Think Nothing Write Just About

My M.O. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me. I'm in this wonderful position to be able to do that.

Work Me Try Position Wonderful Able

I always felt the gifts you need as governor were more suited for my personality. I'm a good team player, but I'm not a policy wonk. In Congress, you need 218 votes to make anything happen. When you're governor, you're the CEO of the state. You establish the vision and standards for the state. You're the leader.

Good Leader Vision Personality Team

I love Age of Empires and I play RTS games all the time, I respect what they've accomplished.

Love Age Respect Time Play Games

My mother started to suffer from multiple sclerosis, but nobody knew what MS was then. My father didn't - and later he suffered a great deal of guilt over that. It was an awful business and very fraught.

Father Mother Business Great Guilt

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.

Work Man Identity Labor More Human

I had a job on college campus. I lost that job, but on my way home I heard an inner voice that said go out for the baseball team. I was a walk-on, and I was actually petrified as a walk-on because you're not an athlete.

Home Job Baseball College Team You

The ability to sympathize with those around us seems crucial to our survival, and it's connected to the mirroring functions of the brain.

Brain Survival Connected Ability Us

I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.

Myself Think Envy Anti-Semitism

Too often, the elected individuals we put our public trust in disappoint us.

Trust Us Our Disappoint Public Too

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