Angela Duckworth Quotes

I'm pretty much done with mindfulness. I'm just going to start paying attention.

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention.

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.

I suppose even when I was growing up, I noticed I was most happy when I was absorbed in something, lost in the moment and forgot the time, whether was conversation, movie, or a game I was playing. That was my definition of happiness. And I was least happy when I was all over the place, distracted and restless.

When on stage, I have good concentration. When I don't find something interesting, I can't concentrate.

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.

It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.

I don't know whether I am ever bored. I never look at myself.

If you're aware when it's going on, you can deal with it and change it. If you're not aware of it, you'll be mystified at the states that come and go seemingly without reason.

With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking.

Self-awareness includes awareness of your mental realm, which encompasses your thoughts, feelings, energy, and emotions.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

The key is your thoughts and feelings, and you have been holding the key in your hand all of your life.

Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act.

The world you see outside of you will always be a reflection of what you have inside of you.

We are not passive exhibitors of visual or auditory or tactile images. We have selves. We have a Me that is automatically present in our minds right now.

Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.

While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.

Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.

No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.

When you start meditating on your ego, on your thoughts, on your mind, you are suddenly separate, because whatsoever you meditate on, you are separate from it. That has become the object and you have become the subject.

I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self.

You will enjoy any activity in which you are fully present.

Become conscious of being conscious.