The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.
ANGELA DUCKWORTHMost people who are really, enduringly interested in something eventually find that it’s important, too – and important to other people.
More Angela Duckworth Quotes
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Really, what matters in the long run is sticking with things and working daily to get better at them.
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Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up.
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When people think of the word ‘drive,’ they often think you have it or you don’t, and that’s where we’re wrong.
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So when my daughter told me on the second track meet that she was done with it because she discovered she didn’t like competing, I made her finish the season.
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I will say that if my wildest dreams come true, I will, like, wake up one day, and I will be Carol Dweck, right? Because she is like everything I want to be.
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Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.
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Is it ‘a drag’ that passions don’t come to us all at once, as epiphanies, without the need to actively develop them?
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Some people prefer a world where we’re all equally talented in everything. Whether you prefer that world or not, I don’t think that world exists.
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Very few people can keep going their whole life doing something and feel like it’s merely personally fascinating.
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The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right?
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Most people who are really, enduringly interested in something eventually find that it’s important, too – and important to other people.
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When I was 27 years old, I left a very demanding job in management consulting for a job that was even more demanding: teaching. I went to teach seventh graders math in the New York City public schools.
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At various points, in big ways and small, we get knocked down. If we stay down, grit loses. If we get up, grit prevails.
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If you’re never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you’ll never get better.
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As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody.
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