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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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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