Angela Duckworth Quotes

I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood. And I've discovered a strikingly consistent pattern: grit and age go hand in hand. Sixty-somethings tend to be grittier, on average, than fifty-somethings, who are in turn grittier than forty-somethings, and so on.

Angela Duckworth

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The business of funding digging journalists is important to encourage. It cannot be replaced by bloggers who don't have access to politicians, who don't have easy access to official documents, who aren't able to buttonhole people in power.

Andrew Marr

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I'm obsessed with Michael Fassbender. He's unbelievable. I think he's a modern day Brando. Every movie that he's done in the past couple years, I just died for him. He's extremely fascinating.

Melissa Benoist

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I wanted to be a drag queen so badly. I'll bet I still own more wigs than any drag queen - I love me a wig.

Melissa McCarthy

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Many business leaders still believe that time on-task equates to productivity. Even in the industrial era of rote factory work, this was untrue. It is a misguided fallacy, and an expensive one, too. Every key facet required for business success will fail when sleep becomes short within an organisation.

Matthew Walker

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I do think that maybe, even subconsciously, a lot of parents in the West are wondering, have we gone too far in the direction of coddling and protecting - you know, you see kids, sometimes that seem very rude and disrespectful. And the more important thing is they don't seem that happy.

Amy Chua

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I did commit adultery, if adultery is having a relationship in a marriage with another woman. I learned from that.

Steve Garvey

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I was uncomfortable with that kind of fame when you're in the tabloids every day.

Toni Tennille

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It's so logical and so simple. Fat is the backup fuel system. The role it plays in the body is that when there's no carbohydrate around, fat will become the primary energy fuel. That's pretty well known.

Robert Atkins

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I went through a period when I did military roles and played basically someone who was unfit for military service.

Michael O'Keefe

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I've always been very ambitious and very determined and very compassionate at the same time.

Molly Bloom

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My viewpoint is the Senate is dysfunctional.

Mo Brooks

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We have freedom of speech, and anybody's idea can't be a fact.

Disha Patani

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