“Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.”
―
Angela Duckworth,
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
“Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another.” ― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
“...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: Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success
“as much as talent counts, effort counts twice.” ― Angela Duckworth, Grit
“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, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
“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, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
“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, Grit
“...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: Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success
“...grit grows as we figure out our life philosophy, learn to dust ourselves off after rejection and disappointment, and learn to tell the difference between low-level goals that should be abandoned quickly and higher-level goals that demand more tenacity. The maturation story is that we develop the capacity for long-term passion and perseverance as we get older.” ― Angela Duckworth, Grit: Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success
“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, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
“Yes, but the main thing is that greatness is doable. Greatness is many, many individual feats, and each of them is doable.” ― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
“Without effort, your talent is nothing more than unmet potential. Without effort, your skill is nothing more than what you could have done but didn't.” ― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
“I have a feeling tomorrow will be better is different from I resolve to make tomorrow better.” ― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
“It isn't suffering that leads to hopelessness. It's suffering you think you can't control.” ― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
“At its core, the idea of purpose is the idea that what we do matters to people other than ourselves.” ― Angela Duckworth, Grit
“One form of perseverance is the daily discipline of trying to do things better than we did yesterday. So,” ― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
“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
“most dazzling human achievements are, in fact, the aggregate of countless individual elements, each of which is, in a sense, ordinary.” ― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
“Three bricklayers are asked: “What are you doing?” The first says, “I am laying bricks.” The second says, “I am building a church.” And the third says, “I am building the house of God.” The first bricklayer has a job. The second has a career. The third has a calling.” ― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
“Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another.” ― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
“...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: Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success
“as much as talent counts, effort counts twice.” ― Angela Duckworth, Grit
“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, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
“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, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
“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, Grit
“...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: Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success
“...grit grows as we figure out our life philosophy, learn to dust ourselves off after rejection and disappointment, and learn to tell the difference between low-level goals that should be abandoned quickly and higher-level goals that demand more tenacity. The maturation story is that we develop the capacity for long-term passion and perseverance as we get older.” ― Angela Duckworth, Grit: Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success
“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, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
“Yes, but the main thing is that greatness is doable. Greatness is many, many individual feats, and each of them is doable.” ― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
“Without effort, your talent is nothing more than unmet potential. Without effort, your skill is nothing more than what you could have done but didn't.” ― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
“I have a feeling tomorrow will be better is different from I resolve to make tomorrow better.” ― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
“It isn't suffering that leads to hopelessness. It's suffering you think you can't control.” ― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
“At its core, the idea of purpose is the idea that what we do matters to people other than ourselves.” ― Angela Duckworth, Grit
“One form of perseverance is the daily discipline of trying to do things better than we did yesterday. So,” ― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
“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
“most dazzling human achievements are, in fact, the aggregate of countless individual elements, each of which is, in a sense, ordinary.” ― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
“Three bricklayers are asked: “What are you doing?” The first says, “I am laying bricks.” The second says, “I am building a church.” And the third says, “I am building the house of God.” The first bricklayer has a job. The second has a career. The third has a calling.” ― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
