Best quotes by Angela Duckworth on People
Checkout quotes by Angela Duckworth on People
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‟ Gritty people train at the edge of their comfort zone. They zero in on one narrow aspect of their performance and set a stretch goal to improve it.
- Angela Duckworth
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‟ I define talent as the rate at which you get better at something when you try. To be very talented means you get better faster and more easily than other people or other things that you try.
- Angela Duckworth
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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. Drive is something that can be encouraged by a wonderful teacher, by a terrific classroom environment, by an awesome soccer team that you are on, and it can be squashed as well.
- Angela Duckworth
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‟ When people tell me I can't do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, 'Yes, I can.'
- Angela Duckworth
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‟ I know a lot of CEOs who are looking for three- to four-year varsity athletes - not necessarily because these people are going to be doing pushups or spiking volleyballs in the workplace, but because they're looking for that continuity, that person who was gritty about something.
- Angela Duckworth
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‟ I think that is just a limitation of any questionnaire - that we apply a frame of reference or standard. It's a well-known finding in psychology that when people are total beginners at a skill, they tend to overrate their skill level. They don't know what they don't know. The more expert you are, the more critical you become.
- Angela Duckworth
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‟ Why do some people try, try again, and why do some people not? That's what I'm after.
- Angela Duckworth