Angela Duckworth Quotes

When people think of the word 'drive,' they often think you have it or you don't, and that's where we're wrong. Drive is something that can be encouraged by a wonderful teacher, by a terrific classroom environment, by an awesome soccer team that you are on, and it can be squashed as well.

Angela Duckworth

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TeacherPeopleTeamDriveThinkYou

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.

Jimmy Wales

KnowledgeWorldFreeDoingPerson

There's a very small percentage of people that take limos to school and have $2000 handbags - no one in my high school had that!

Jessica Szohr

SchoolPeopleSmallHigh SchoolHigh

When I was young, I had a favorite movie star. One day, I saw one of his movies, and it was bad, and he was bad in it. I could tell he didn't care and only did it for the money. I felt betrayed. I never watched another one of his movies again.

Michael Jai White

MoneyDayCareBadYoungMovies

You just want to keep going, keep putting your best foot forward, keep putting one foot in front of the other.

Amanda Warren

BestKeep GoingForwardYouWant

If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?

Steven Wright

ForestYouNobodyJokeTellLaughs

We agree that Citizens United is a very bad decision. We don't believe outspending your opponent is the way to go, since we don't believe we will ever be outspending our opponents!

Tom Steyer

DecisionBelieveBadGoWillWay

Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.

Robert Crippen

OpportunitySpaceFlyFlightTest

We actually do need a federal government, but we need a limited one.

Ron Johnson

GovernmentNeedFederal Government

The integrated automotive group of Volkswagen and Porsche is a certainty.

Martin Winterkorn

GroupCertaintyPorscheIntegrated

When I first started, there really was no beauty guru community. I didn't have the right production resources. I had to learn how to edit. I didn't even have beauty products. I had to go out and buy them myself because beauty brands didn't even know what a beauty guru was.

Michelle Phan

BeautyCommunityMyselfLearnKnow

Modelling is completely different from acting. They are two skills that you can't compare.

Disha Patani

YouActingSkillsTwoDifferent

Acting had become something I did and did well - but didn't particularly enjoy.

Dennis Christopher

EnjoyActingBecomeSomethingWell

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