Angela Duckworth Quotes

You never know the way your career takes.

At times, I think of my career as a map. The closer you get to the map, the more you know where you are, but the closer I get to my career, the less happy I feel. At the same time, I have carved out the career for myself which I wanted.

I felt like my career was out of my hands.

I've kind of looked at my whole career as a spring training invite.

I kind of have never thought about a career path, which is an unusual approach.

I think it's been confusing for people because I haven't had a linear career.

I'm not sure where my career is going here in Cincinnati.

My career has evolved at its own peculiar pace. American careers are supposed to have a much more singular direction than I've been able to... stomach.

There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.

My career is not well thought out. Every choice has been instinctive and, quite literally, impulsive in many ways.

I know where I want to get to, and I know where I want to be still in my career.

I don't know where I'm at in my career and I don't really keep track of that or care about that.

I was a late bloomer on the career front.

I think with anything career-related, there really is no rush.

You know, it looks like I have a varied resume or a varied career, that I've made interesting choices, when the truth of the matter is, in a way I've just kind of piece-mealed a career together, you know?

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

Each of my career decisions has been very much about doing what I wanted to achieve in the role and then finding another challenge.

I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'

I haven't achieved as much as I should have done in my career.

The different parts of my career seemed to take part in different rooms, albeit in the same house. It was just the way things were and I didn't actually think much about it at the time.

I've seen what can happen to an actor when he's just working for the sake of working. All of a sudden it's ten years later, your career's happened, and you haven't had any control.

I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress.

My so-called career is a haphazard thing.

I have been constantly shaping and reshaping my career. I laid a foundation by doing respectful work in all media. And I am happy with what I have done.

You have to think of your career the way you look at the ocean, deciding which wave you're gonna take and which waves you're not gonna take. Some of the waves are going to be big, some are gonna be small, sometimes the sea is going to be calm. Your career is not going to be one steady march upward to glory.