Angela Duckworth Quotes

There's something about taking the path of least resistance that makes a lot of sense. But at the same time, we have to figure out which things in life are worth struggling through.

Angela Duckworth

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With climate change, we are living on borrowed time. If we do not address these issues today, it is going to be much more expensive later on, and that is why we need to take action now.

Johan Eliasch

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I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books.

Jennifer Weiner

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It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.

Andrew Wiles

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The people inside the company are the people who define GE, not the people outside the company.

John L. Flannery

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We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

Robert Dale Owen

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How can I intimidate Tiger Woods? I mean, the guy's got 75 or whatever PGA Tour wins, 14 majors. He's been the biggest thing ever in our sport. How could some little 23-year-old from Northern Ireland with a few wins come up and intimidate him.

Rory McIlroy

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There is nothing - nothing - like writing a great joke and having that joke kill onstage.

Judy Gold

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When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.

Jean de la Bruyere

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Nowhere else is there so large and consistent a body of oral tradition about the national and mythical heroes as amongst the Gaels.

Joseph Jacobs

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We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

Jon Bon Jovi

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A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart.

Johnny Knoxville

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I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean.

Brooke Burke

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