Angela Lee Duckworth Quotes & Sayings

Do something youre not ready to do. In the worst case, youll learn your limitations. — Marissa Mayer

A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals. — Tommy Lee

It says something interesting that when porn stars dress up, they do so more tastefully than non-porn stars. — Anonymous

The richest fuckin' people in the richest country in the world - you gonna tell them some little guy in a hole in South America can have something they can't? Like shit, man. If the little guy in the hole can be a revolutionary, they can be revolutionaries too. — Robert Stone

No." Laurence said, "I mean to retire when we have returned. I have enough money to keep Temeraire now, and enough of a countenance to ask my brother to put us up on one of the farms."

Or they might return to Australia, or to China. Temeraire has every right to ask that of him now that the war was won. Laurence did not mean to refuse him, he only hoped to go back to Wollaton Hall first and find a way to carry it with him somehow. He longed in a deep inward part for Britain, for home, and the house standing at twilight with all the windows lit. A child's memory of peace. He would even be grateful there for the counterfeit honors that had been heaped onto his head, if they gave his mother some peace, and his brother need not be ashamed to give him a field for Temeraire to sleep in, for a little while. — Naomi Novik

Remember, if you keep living your life on your terms,people can mock you all they want, but they'll respect you in the end — Cassidy Calloway

Well, let's start with the big one," Creek said. "You're your own nation." Robin considered that for a moment. "For your sake, that had better not be a comment about the size of my ass," she said. The — John Scalzi

Seminary is for men who are seriously considering the ministry; it is a place where a man may test his gifts and calling in the service of the Word...Uncertainty about a call to the ministry may indicate with certainty a call to theological training. Even when God does not call a man to pastoral work, he often leads through seminary study to other ministries of teaching and to informed leadership in the work of the church. — Edmund P. Clowney

I'm always inspired by the hidden treasures, unique personalities and New York's overall charm. — Pamela Love

Yes, good, kind Crake. Please stop singing or I can't go on with the story. — Margaret Atwood