Grit For Kids Quotes & Sayings

It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry
if they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere, how to keep on working until the work is done. Woody Allen famously declared that "eighty percent of success is showing up." NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) teaches kids how to show up again and again. — Jonah Lehrer

Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success. — Jim Rohn

You can never judge your characters. You have to love them, really care about them. You're never just playing a villain or the crazy lady. — Annabella Sciorra

The vocational approach at NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) helps build grit in students. It teaches them how to be single-minded in pursuit of a goal, to sacrifice for the sake of a passion. The teachers demand hard work from their kids because they know, from personal experience, that creative success requires nothing less. — Jonah Lehrer

2If you love kids; if you love kids with grit; and above all, if you want to make a difference, back programs that inspire children to realize that they can grow up to be more than pawns. — Nicholas D. Kristof And Sheryl WuDunn

Travel is the best investment you can make in yourself. It teaches you that there are many ways to live a good, fulfilled life. It broadens your world view, yet makes you appreciate home all the more. — Joel Sartore

We talk a lot here about grit and self-control. The kids know what those words mean — Malcolm Gladwell

I knew more about produce from the sea than any of my schoolmates, and my reports in school, from kindergarten on, amused and shocked my classmates and teachers. I told them how we ate with chopsticks, had rice and seaweed for breakfast, raw fish, octopus, and sea urchin eggs for supper, and cakes made from sharks. — Eugenie Clark

I want to get away from the high school thing and do other types of roles. — Shannon Elizabeth

The attempt to prevent our kids from struggling for fear it might scar their permanent records is, instead, scarring them for life. — Heather Choate Davis

When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved. — Gro Harlem Brundtland

I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested. — Jane Austen