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Angela Duckworth Quotes

Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let's get to work on them.

Angela Duckworth

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: psychologist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1970

Topics

Work Intelligence Matter Things Get

I would love to do anything from a really gritty, interesting, indie type film, to that commercial, bigger stuff.

Love Interesting Anything Bigger

Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Great Yourself People Think Meetings

There was always an unspoken generosity about my mom.

Generosity Mom Always About Unspoken

But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives.

Michael Hutchence

Music Power Courage Decision Up Us

Everything that's old is new, and everything that's new is old.

Stephanie Mills

New Old Everything

During my New York run, I injured my voice badly. I was getting increasingly hoarse, and it finally gave up. The doctor said I had two choices. Either cancel things, or try my luck and perhaps never speak again. That's not much of a choice.

New York Luck Doctor Choices Speak

I come from a very illustrious line of divorces. We love to get divorced in my family. My mother and father have been married four times each - eight ceremonies with the best of intentions.

Family Love Father Mother Best Line

I judge preschool teachers and actresses shamelessly. The first five minutes I meet them.

Judge Meet Teachers First Preschool

I have an older son, Josh, and growing up, he just didn't care that much for baseball. And that was fine. But Chaddie, he always wanted to go to the ballpark. He just kind of took to it right away.

Son Baseball Growing Up Care Growing

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

William Hazlitt

Ridiculous Race Virtue Extraordinary

All you see on television are debased images.

You Television See Images

After 9/11, most Americans were in no mood to talk with our enemies in the Middle East, whatever those enemies' ideology, and the Bush administration's policies of invasion and pre-emption reflected that sentiment.

Mood Talk Enemies Whatever Middle

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