Top 67 Duckworth Quotes
#1. Angela Duckworth has shown how important grit and perseverance are to lifetime outcomes. College students who report that they finish whatever they begin have higher grades than their peers, even ones with higher SATs.
David Brooks
#2. For Tammy Duckworth to blame the junior senator from Illinois for Islamic terror shows that she is a naive fool not fit for office in the Senate.
Mark Kirk
#3. The 'DuckTales' ensemble is clearly critical. There's the core set of characters - Scrooge, Webby, Launchpad, Huey, Dewey and Louie ... Plus there's Gyro and Duckworth and Mrs. Beakley and so on. The cast is huge.
Warren Spector
#4. It soon became clear that doing one thing better and better might be more satisfying than staying an amateur at many different things:
Angela Duckworth
#6. most dazzling human achievements are, in fact, the aggregate of countless individual elements, each of which is, in a sense, ordinary.
Angela Duckworth
#7. Collaboratition: the art of working with our competitors.
Holly Duckworth
#9. I have a feeling tomorrow will be better is different from I resolve to make tomorrow better.
Angela Duckworth
#10. callings have little to do with formal job descriptions. In fact, she believes that just
Angela Duckworth
#11. Development is only necessary to rectify the ignorance of designers
Keith Duckworth
#12. My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
Tammy Duckworth
#13. In other words, we want to believe that Mark Spitz was born to swim in a way that none of us were and that none of us could. We don't want to sit on the pool deck and watch him progress from amateur to expert. We prefer our excellence fully formed. We prefer mystery to mundanity.
Angela Duckworth
#14. At its core, the idea of purpose is the idea that what we do matters to people other than ourselves.
Angela Duckworth
#15. Getting people to think about what they think, and asking them questions about it, is the best way I know how to teach,
Eleanor Duckworth
#16. Well okay, that didn't go so well, but I guess I will just carry on.'
Angela Duckworth
#17. Being a "promising beginner" is fun, but being an actual expert is infinitely more gratifying.
Angela Duckworth
#19. But if, instead, you define genius as working toward excellence, ceaselessly, with every element of your being - then, in fact, my dad is a genius, and so am I, and so is Coates, and, if you're willing, so are you.
Angela Duckworth
#21. figure out when and where you're most comfortable doing deliberate practice. Once you've made your selection, do deliberate practice then and there every day. Why? Because routines are a godsend when it comes to doing something hard. A
Angela Duckworth
#22. Control in business is the combination of written and unwritten rules that create an organizational decision framework and staff hierarchy.
Holly Duckworth
#23. To reboot your association for success, you must shift your beliefs to realize how vitally important key investments in technology can be as an ongoing and personalized communication tool with your members.
Holly Duckworth
#24. whatever your occupation, you can maneuver within your job description - adding, delegating, and customizing what you do to match your interests and values.
Angela Duckworth
#25. Thing Rule: You can quit. But you can't quit until the season is over, the tuition payment is up, or some other "natural" stopping point has arrived. You must, at least for the interval to which you've committed yourself, finish whatever you begin. In
Angela Duckworth
#26. Board and Staff relationships are critical in any business reboot - don't overlook or undervalue them!
Holly Duckworth
#29. When "We've always done it that way" is replaced with "Let's try something new," associations will leap to greatness.
Holly Duckworth
#30. I won't just have a job; I'll have a calling. I'll challenge myself every day. When I get knocked down, I'll get back up. I may not be the smartest person in the room, but I'll strive to be the grittiest.
Angela Duckworth
#31. Whether you think you can, or think you can't - you're right.
Angela Duckworth
#32. Reboot your beliefs, create new thoughts, and choose powerful action.
Holly Duckworth
#33. To know enough about things is one prerequisite for (having) wonderful ideas.
Eleanor Duckworth
#34. Now it's when you build your association with the members, they are already there.
Holly Duckworth
#36. Of all the virtues related to intellectual functioning, the most passive is the virtue of knowing the right answer. Knowing the right answer requires no decisions, carries no risks, and makes no demands. It is automatic. It is thoughtless
Eleanor Duckworth
#37. In sum, what have we learned? First: grit, talent, and all other psychological traits relevant to success in life are influenced by genes and also by experience. Second: there's no single gene for grit, or indeed any other psychological trait.
Angela Duckworth
#38. A girl who is told repeatedly that she's no genius ends up winning an award for being one. The
Angela Duckworth
#39. Fear, doubt, and lack are things we must talk about to emerge as associations that thrive for years to come.
Holly Duckworth
#40. Associations are communities that are built on the hearts and minds of people who come together to do good in the world
Holly Duckworth
#41. President Obama pushed for fairness in the military, listening to commanders as we ended Don't Ask Don't Tell, and on how to allow women to officially serve in more combat jobs. Because America's daughters are just as capable of defending liberty as her sons!
Tammy Duckworth
#42. Which is more important to success - talent or effort? Americans
Angela Duckworth
#43. To be effective as future organizations, we must know our fellow leaders better, deeper.
Holly Duckworth
#44. Write bylaws in a simple language - no one needs an advanced degree to understand them.
Holly Duckworth
#45. Real learning, attentive, real learning, deep learning, is playful and frustrating and joyful and discouraging and exciting and sociable and private all the time, which is what makes it great.
Eleanor Duckworth
#46. We are all dishonored when a veteran sleeps on the same streets that he or she has defended. We are all dishonored when a veteran's family has to live in a shelter while he or she is out fighting for us. WE NEED TO FIX THAT!
Tammy Duckworth
#47. For associations to emerge healthy and strong, they must re-engage with their members around the heart-centered why of why they exist, leverage current leadership, and build future leadership while they integrate the balance of technology and face-to-face experiences.
Holly Duckworth
#50. My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?
Tammy Duckworth
#51. You can't simply will yourself to like things, either. As Jeff Bezos has observed, 'One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves.
Angela Duckworth
#52. I learned a lesson I'd never forget. The lesson was that, when you have setbacks and failures, you can't overreact to them.
Angela Duckworth
#58. When you keep searching for ways to change your situation for the better, you stand a chance of finding them. When you stop searching, assuming they can't be found, you guarantee they won
Angela Duckworth
#59. An association that chooses to emerge healthier it needs to be willing to shift the energy of the board and volunteers to be positive and fun, shift down to a more manageable and nimble-size board, and via the law of attraction know the right board members will lead the association forward.
Holly Duckworth
#60. Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another.
Angela Duckworth
#61. Yes, but the main thing is that greatness is doable. Greatness is many, many individual feats, and each of them is doable.
Angela Duckworth
#64. But it's not the pressure of data that gives rise to the understanding. It's, on the contrary, the child's own struggle to make sense of the data
Eleanor Duckworth
#65. Without effort, your skill is nothing more than what you could have done but didn't. With
Angela Duckworth
#66. Nobody wants to show you the hours and hours of becoming. They'd rather show the highlight of what they've become.
Angela Duckworth
#67. In any racing engine, the nearer you are to it disintegrating, the better it's performance will be
Keith Duckworth
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