I do think that whatever ambition I may have had natively was amplified by my father's clear val...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH Grittier students are more likely to earn their diplomas; grittier teachers are more effective in th...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH I think that is just a limitation of any questionnaire - that we apply a frame of reference or stand...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH Gritty people train at the edge of their comfort zone. They zero in on one narrow aspect of their pe...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.
ANGELA DUCKWORTH You cannot will yourself to be interested in something you're not interested in. But you can act...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, a...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious. I stayed for lunch for extra tu...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH We have found a direct correlation between grit and positive emotions, but the fact that I have no e...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH If you're never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you'll never get bette...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH Being gritty doesn't mean not showing pain or pretending everything is O.K. In fact, when you lo...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH I'm so much more gratified by my life now that I have an expertise. I wake up every day thinking...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH There is a fluency and an ease with which true mastery and expertise always expresses itself, whethe...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH I don't think that every child in America is going to necessarily aspire to, you know, a four-ye...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH I know a lot of CEOs who are looking for three- to four-year varsity athletes - not necessarily beca...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH It is important to realize that the process of 'fostering' a passion takes trial and error. ...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH I didn't tell my kids, 'You have to play viola, and you have to play piano.' They chose ...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for t...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it's not just stamina in your effort. It's also stamina in ...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH trying to do things they can't yet do, failing, and learning what they need to do differently is exa...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH One thing that's true of gritty people is they love what they do, and they keep loving what they...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about bui...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH At various points, in big ways and small, we get knocked down. If we stay down, grit loses. If we ge...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotiona...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH What we reliably find is that people's perseverance scores are actually higher than their passio...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH When people tell me I can't do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, 'Yes, I can.'
ANGELA DUCKWORTH Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
ANGELA DUCKWORTH I know that instructional time is a zero-sum game, but if we want kids to do well academically, it&#...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up. Longitudinal studie...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH I will say that if my wildest dreams come true, I will, like, wake up one day, and I will be Carol D...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH I'm not a policy oriented person. I'm constrained to what I study. But educational policy ha...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH Encouragement during the early years is crucial because beginners are still figuring out whether the...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH How often do people start down a path and then give up on it entirely? How many treadmills, exercise...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH How often do people start down a path and then give up on it entirely? How many treadmills, exercise...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH A vivid - if somewhat melodramatic - firsthand description of what deliberate practice can feel like...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH You can't simply will yourself to like things, either. As Jeff Bezos has observed, 'One of the huge ...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH Follow your passion was not the message I heard growing up. Instead, I was told that the practical r...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
ANGELA DUCKWORTH I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit a...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH When people think of the word 'drive,' they often think you have it or you don't, and th...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH ...interests are not discovered through introspection. Instead, interests are triggered by interacti...
ANGELA DUCKWORTH I said three things when I woke up in Walter Reed. 'I love you.' 'Put me to work,' a...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH I believe accurately remembering - and honoring - our whole past is the first step in governing in a...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH I commanded an Army unit, and I placed the highest priority on a commander's authority to lead, ...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH I was in Congress for six months, and they put me on blood pressure medication. I flew helicopters i...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia,...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job ...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH I'm glad that people know my military service. But, like this nation, we are more than our milit...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH I don't know why I survived Iraq and I don't know why I made it home, but I do know that thi...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH I love the Army with every bone in my body.
TAMMY DUCKWORTH Life isn't fair, and it isn't government's job to make life fair. But if you're not ...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH Student loans, Social Security, and Medicare make a difference in the lives of working families ever...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just h...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH We must be an inclusive nation that respects and supports all of its citizens: a nation that doesn&#...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH At my core, I know that the American Dream is about the opportunity to work hard to make your future...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH Veterans Day is a time to celebrate the men and women who have worn this nation's uniform and to...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH As I recovered at Walter Reed, I worried about the soldiers who pulled me out of my helicopter that ...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH The power of the ADA is that it ended up changing my life long before I ever imagined it would.
TAMMY DUCKWORTH The ADA is essential in helping me overcome the obstacles I face as a Wounded Warrior and empowers m...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH The ADA is the living testament to our Nation's commitment that we will always stand up for our ...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH The ADA allows persons with disabilities the opportunity to participate in the world around them.
TAMMY DUCKWORTH The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH I know from personal experience that engaging with your community and helping others helps foster a ...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH The American Dream I believe in is one that provides anyone willing to work hard enough with the opp...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitat...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH I feel like moderate Republicans, who would support sensible gun violence legislation, are pushed as...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH I was born in Bangkok in 1968 and grew up in Southeast Asia with my Thai mom and my American father,...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH When you're a member of Congress, you can become an expert in a couple of subjects. For example,...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a de...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH Those who put their lives on the line overseas are undoubtedly American heroes, but it's time fo...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH You can't let yourself get caught up in things you can't control. The main thing you have to worry a...
BRANDON DUCKWORTH I was pretty happy with it.
BRANDON DUCKWORTH But I feel like I've had a good spring and I'm glad for that.
BRANDON DUCKWORTH It just seemed like the opportunity was going to be here. The Pirates left me with the impression th...
BRANDON DUCKWORTH I felt pretty good out there. Early on, I was a little quick with my delivery but then I got comfort...
BRANDON DUCKWORTH There's a lot of people I know and like from here. You always feel closest to the team you come up w...
BRANDON DUCKWORTH I always liked it here. This is beautiful.
BRANDON DUCKWORTH I'm sure I'll be feeling some of the good Philly love when I get back there, and we all know what th...
BRANDON DUCKWORTH I was rushing my delivery in the first inning but I settled down in the second and did OK. I'm happy...
BRANDON DUCKWORTH I had been pursuing a Ph.D. in political science when my National Guard unit was sent to Iraq. Eight...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH I didn't want to get pregnant while commanding an assault helicopter company and, before I knew ...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH My first direct encounter with the military was when I joined ROTC as a graduate student, although m...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH I am just one of the overwhelming majority of Americans who is responsible and hard-working and at o...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even thou...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH There is a direct connection between care that people get here in Wheaton and the decisions made in ...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
TAMMY DUCKWORTH I do not have PTSD, but if I watch part of a movie like 'The Hurt Locker,' or when I spend t...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH Whether defending our nation as a Black Hawk pilot abroad or serving our veterans and those in need ...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH We must recognize and keep in the public consciousness the significant contributions and sacrifices ...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH Missing 20 free throws is inexcusable. I don't know. We shot 89 percent (from the free-throw line) i...
TONY DUCKWORTH Some good things are happening even in abysmal states.
KEN DUCKWORTH With over 10 million inhabitants, Moscow is the largest city in the Russian Federation. Yet it does ...
NICOLA DUCKWORTH At halftime, I told the guys we needed to keep our lead in the second half. A lot of teams that are ...
TONY DUCKWORTH My arm bones looked like chicken bones.
TAMMY DUCKWORTH I get up every single day trying to repay a debt that I can never repay. Never. And I will work hard...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH But it's not the pressure of data that gives rise to the understanding. It's, on the contrary, the c...
ELEANOR DUCKWORTH Teachers are often, and understandably, impatient for their students to develop clear and adequate i...
ELEANOR DUCKWORTH In the military, a combatant command is the ultimate job. It's the pointy tip of the spear, over...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH Food Stamps helped keep me from going hungry, and Pell grants helped me go to college.
TAMMY DUCKWORTH I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinki...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH Access to treatment depends on access to information.
KEN DUCKWORTH If you need heart surgery, you don't want a surgeon who only got a C in medical school. The same pri...
KEN DUCKWORTH Getting help means getting access to information. When 40 states can't pass a pop quiz on providing ...
KEN DUCKWORTH Treatment works, if you can get it, and if states get it right. Unfortunately, too many states are w...
KEN DUCKWORTH As an assistant operations officer for a helicopter task force in Iraq, I saw my fellow Guardsmen an...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH The wheelchair and the prosthesis give me a soapbox to stand on. If it helps me get my message acros...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.
TAMMY DUCKWORTH Nobody wants to be on food stamps, but when my family lost everything, we were grateful for it. I wa...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH Voluntary national surveillance of blood poisoning (in England) caused by E. coli from 1994 to 2004 ...
GEORGIA DUCKWORTH They came out and looked at the site.
JASON DUCKWORTH We felt since we were the largest community park, it was only fitting we contribute to the municipal...
JASON DUCKWORTH It'll definitely be under way this winter.
JASON DUCKWORTH When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.
ANGELA MERKEL Hatred, racism, and extremism have no place in this country.
ANGELA MERKEL I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's a...
ANGELA DAVIS What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
ANGELA DAVIS Personally, I've learned about perseverance: when you hear the word 'No,' and when you h...
ANGELA ROBINSON The luxury customer is increasingly global and increasingly mobile. Their brand journey is not linea...
ANGELA AHRENDTS I'm not a politician. I'm a businessperson.
ANGELA BRALY As a busy working mom I'm always pressed for time, so a quick and easy beauty routine is key!
ANGELA KINSEY You have to create a consistent brand experience however and wherever a customer touches your brand,...
ANGELA AHRENDTS The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement tha...
ANGELA DAVIS Radical simply means "grasping things at the root."
ANGELA DAVIS To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the...
ANGELA DAVIS Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a ...
ANGELA DAVIS We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
ANGELA DAVIS I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved activel...
ANGELA DAVIS When she was 4 1/2, she asked for three straight months if she could take skating lessons, ... I did...
ANGELA DAVIS Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary's life. When one commits...
ANGELA DAVIS I said, yet again, for Germany, Europe is not only indispensable, it is part and parcel of our ident...
ANGELA MERKEL After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and...
ANGELA CARTWRIGHT Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorp...
ANGELA CARTWRIGHT Climate change knows no borders. It will not stop before the Pacific islands and the whole of the in...
ANGELA MERKEL Great brands and great businesses have to be great storytellers, too. We have to tell stories - emot...
ANGELA AHRENDTS I would have to say honestly I was very pleased to be in a film whether it was good or bad with De N...
ANGELA BASSETT If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
ANGELA THIRKELL Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods
ANGELA CARTER Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation
ANGELA CARTER While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. -A...
ANGELA SCHWINDT I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align...
ANGELA CARTER There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with ...
ANGELA CARTER The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul -- enormous breasts, pathet...
ANGELA CARTER I just stopped playing bitches on wheels and peoples' mothers. I have only a few more years to kick ...
ANGELA LANSBURY Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including t...
ANGELA CARTER The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universal...
ANGELA CARTER Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults...
ANGELA CARTER Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain ...
ANGELA CARTER There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for ...
ANGELA CARTER The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
ANGELA CARTER Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does no...
ANGELA CARTER Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand.
ANGELA LAMBERT Iconic clothing has been secularized. A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggres...
ANGELA CARTER It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to ...
ANGELA CARTER I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.
ANGELA CARTER Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solst...
ANGELA CARTER The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her a...
ANGELA CARTER In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
ANGELA CARTER Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your...
ANGELA CARTER Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
ANGELA CARTER We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there wit...
ANGELA CARTER Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
ANGELA MONET Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by...
ANGELA DAVIS Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
ANGELA CARTER Intuition is the wisdom formed by feeling and instinct - a gift of knowing without reasoning... Beli...
ANGELA AHRENDTS As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participatio...
ANGELA DAVIS Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abo...
ANGELA DAVIS I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, per...
ANGELA CARTER My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and be...
ANGELA DAVIS Spying among friends is never acceptable.
ANGELA MERKEL I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridic...
ANGELA LANSBURY The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement tha...
ANGELA DAVIS I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to...
ANGELA DAVIS I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved activel...
ANGELA DAVIS Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery ...
ANGELA DAVIS We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
ANGELA DAVIS We will have to accept a certain degree of legal immigration; that's globalisation... In the era...
ANGELA MERKEL I don't care how advanced technology gets. I don't think that there's anything that can ...
ANGELA AHRENDTS Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like ...
ANGELA CARTER Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
ANGELA CARTER It is not about gender, it is about experience, leadership, and vision.
ANGELA AHRENDTS I have always admired the innovation and impact Apple products and services have on people's liv...
ANGELA AHRENDTS I have a relatively sunny spirit, and I always had the expectation that my path through life would b...
ANGELA MERKEL I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballe...
ANGELA MERKEL Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institu...
ANGELA DAVIS I didn't feel the need to rebel as a teenager. From age nine to 16, I went to school in Montreux...
ANGELA BOWIE It feels right. But it's emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you've done that long is hard...
ANGELA RUGGIERO When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale Coll...
ANGELA BASSETT That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer,...
ANGELA RUGGIERO Perfection is impossible; just strive to do your best.
ANGELA WATSON I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital w...
ANGELA AHRENDTS Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it'...
ANGELA DAVIS Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your emp...
ANGELA AHRENDTS Standing athwart ineffective, feel-good legislation shouting, 'Stop!' is seen as a betrayal ...
ANGELA MCGLOWAN I have just explained my idea of how a constructive period of reflection, one that would send a clea...
ANGELA MERKEL People think it must be wonderful being in movies or on television, but it can be very tough on a ch...
ANGELA CARTWRIGHT When I'm stirring a saucepan, I don't say to myself, 'Now the chancellor is stirring a s...
ANGELA MERKEL This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from Am...
ANGELA BASSETT Sometimes with the initial shock, you have to have some down time as far as crying, grieving and som...
ANGELA BRIDGES If a student comes in my office and doesn't want to talk me, they just might want to sit still, be a...
ANGELA BRIDGES