Angela Duckworth Quotes

One thing you notice is, there's a lot of people with raw talent, and then there's people who take that talent and work hard.

The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability.

I feel lucky. I feel blessed. If you get blessed with some ability, I think you have to work hard at it. Michael Jordan was a great basketball player, but he wasn't the best shooter, even though he had the skill, and he had to work and work at it.

I'm never going to be the best skater, but I feel like I'm getting better.

I've always had the speed, but the experience comes along naturally.

Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.

Either you have the ability to hit or not. But I also think you have to work at it.

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.

Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.

You have to hone your craft, but you also have to be born with a certain amount of talent, and I never took the talent for granted - I've always worked really hard to be as good as I could be.

The more you draw, the better you get.

With anything you do and you dedicate yourself to and you dedicate thousands and thousands of hours, eventually you're gonna get a little bit better at it unless there's some innate impairment preventing that.

You've got to perfect your craft.

If you keep doing something you are good at, it's going to get you by.

That's kind of how I see my workmanship: it's how many hours I put in that makes me better.

Be honest and accept it if you do not have talent. And if you do, hone your skills.

The more games I play, the better I get.

I'm a player, or I'm a person who needs to practice a lot; otherwise, I don't play well.

Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.

Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.

If I've learned nothing else, it's that time and practice equal achievement.

Experience alone can give, even to the greatest talent, that confidence in having done all that could be done.

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. You work at it, and you get better. It's like anything: You sit there and do it every day, and eventually you get good at it.

You only get better by playing.