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Angela Duckworth Quotes

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“One form of perseverance is the daily discipline of trying to do things better than we did yesterday.”
— Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Tagged: How To Think, Grit, Discipline, purpose, Perserverence, Self-Dicipline
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds, who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
— Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Tagged: How To Think, Philosophy, Grit
“Passion for your work is a little bit of discovery, followed by a lot of development, and then a lifetime of deepening.”
— Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Tagged: Grit, Endurance, self-preservation, Passion, purpose, Philosophy, The Person You'll Become
“Interests are not discovered through introspection. Instead, interests are triggered by interactions with the outside world. The process of interest discovery can be messy, serendipitous, and inefficient. This is because you can't really predict with certainty what will capture your attention and what won't. Without experimenting, you can't figure out which interests will stick, and which won't.”
— Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Tagged: Grit, Endurance, interests, Self-Discovery, Introspection, The Person You'll Become, Philosophy, Psychology
“As much as talent counts, effort counts twice.”
— Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Tagged: Endurance, Grit
“There are no shortcuts to excellence. Developing real expertise, figuring out really hard problems, it all takes time ― longer than most people imagine... you've got to apply those skills and produce goods or services that are valuable to people. Grit is about working on something you care about so much that you're willing to stay loyal to it. It's doing what you love, but not just falling in love ― staying in love.”
— Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Tagged: Grit, Endurance
“But when they lose a chess game, they know that they have no one to blame but themselves. They had everything they needed to win, and they lost. If that happens to you once, you can usually find some excuse, or just never think about it again. When it's part of your life, when it happens to you every single weekend, you have to find a way to separate yourself from your mistakes or your losses. I try to teach my students that losing is something you do, not something you are.”
— Angela Duckworth, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
Tagged: Responsibility
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