Angela Duckworth

Grit and self-control are related, but they're not the same thing.

— Angela Duckworth

“you can, in fact, modify your self-talk, and you can learn to not let it interfere with you moving toward your goals.…

— Angela Duckworth

One thing that's true of gritty people is they love what they do, and they keep loving what they do. So they're…

— Angela Duckworth

The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right? There are so…

— Angela Duckworth

“Nobody wants to show you the hours and hours of becoming. They’d rather show the highlight of what they’ve become.”

— Angela Duckworth

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can't do anything about them.

— Angela Duckworth

“My longitudinal studies show these three virtue clusters predict different outcomes. For academic achievement, including stellar report card grades, the cluster containing…

— Angela Duckworth

“For many of us, the companies we work for are an important cultural force in our lives. For instance, growing up, my…

— Angela Duckworth

“trying to do things they can't yet do, failing, and learning what they need to do differently is exactly the way that…

— Angela Duckworth

Negative feelings are typical of learning, and you shouldn't feel like you're stupid when you're frustrated doing something. You might say to…

— Angela Duckworth

I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious. I stayed for lunch for extra tutoring, gave…

— Angela Duckworth

“The separation of talent and skill,” Will Smith points out, “is one of the greatest misunderstood concepts for people who are trying…

— Angela Duckworth

What we reliably find is that people's perseverance scores are actually higher than their passion scores, and I think it really does…

— Angela Duckworth

Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let's get to work on them.

— Angela Duckworth

“With everything perfect,” Nietzsche wrote, “we do not ask how it came to be.” Instead, “we rejoice in the present fact as…

— Angela Duckworth

I think it's very important to send the message that, while parents are needed to remind you to practice and occasionally force…

— Angela Duckworth

If the quality and quantity of continuous effort toward goals matters as much as I think it does, we may actually get…

— Angela Duckworth

The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.

— Angela Duckworth

The parenting style that is good for grit is also the parenting style good for most other things: Be really, really demanding,…

— Angela Duckworth

“dogged perseverance toward a top-level goal requires, paradoxically perhaps, some flexibility at lower levels in the goal hierarchy. It’s as if the…

— Angela Duckworth

“Two indicators could easily be rephrased as passion items for the Grit Scale. Degree to which he works with distant objects in…

— Angela Duckworth

“key process in personality development involves situations and personality traits reciprocally “calling” each other. The corresponsive principle suggests that the very traits…

— Angela Duckworth

“It isn't suffering that leads to hopelessness. It's suffering you think you can't control.”

— Angela Duckworth

“In his best-selling 1928 parenting guide, Psychological Care of Infant and Child, Watson holds forth on how to raise a child “who…

— Angela Duckworth

“It was a really winding road that took me to all kinds of places. And it was difficult, and discouraging, and demoralizing,…

— Angela Duckworth