Angela Duckworth Quotes

Many, many individuals will report starting to form their lifelong interests around adolescence. Why that is, researchers don't fully know. But if you can take a trip down memory lane and see what interested you, that's at least a clue as to where your interest may begin to develop.

Angela Duckworth

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This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute such motives to another man is to imply you're harboring them yourself.

Jim Garrison

GoodPersonalityManYourselfPeople

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Jim Rohn

EnvyWatchOnlyWhoManyFew

I don't agree with the Tories on most things.

Johann Lamont

ThingsAgreeMostTories

For me, the main goal is loving music and experiencing the great music-making with the orchestra, which is the great reason why I conduct, and that is the main goal.

Andris Nelsons

MusicGreatMeLovingGoalWhy

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

Anatole France

ManAnimalWorstHimOutRational

I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.

Jeffrey Archer

I AmCharityDoingYearAboutAm

There's a lot going on in country music, with indie-label hipsters and underground bloggers arguing their interpretations of what country is, and pop-country stars defending themselves. That deserves to be poked fun at.

Sturgill Simpson

StarsMusicFunCountryGoing

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

Steven Tyler

HumilityYouNewImportantFresh

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.

Rose Macaulay

LightWrongSometimesConscienceOwn

I got heckled off stage in Western Australia at a music festival once.

Ronny Chieng

MusicAustraliaStageGotOffOnce

I kept listening in the minor leagues, and even earlier than that, people would say, 'If you don't hit the fastball, you're not going to get to the big leagues.' Every game, you're going to get a fastball.

Jose Altuve

PeopleListeningGameYouSayBig

One thing that's really delightful is my books tend to attract people who are funny, so I get the benefit of people writing me with things that crack me up.

Christopher Moore

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