Angela Duckworth Quotes

What adolescence is about is by trial and error, honing a frontal cortex that is going to be more optimal by the time you're 25.

Adolescence begins when children stop asking questions-because they know all the answers.

Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions, but will go on improving as long as means and opportunities offer; while he who finds himself ignorant of most things, is only too apt to shrink from a labour which becomes Herculean.

The limbic system explodes during puberty, but the prefrontal cortex keeps maturing for another 10 years.

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.

Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.

Always educate yourself.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

The most formative time of our lives are the years between birth and age 21, when we explore who we are and learn from those who surround us.

Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are.

I learn new things all the time.

There's a child within me. Everything is fascinating. The hunger to learn, do better and more creative things never goes.

I think I can safely say that, as adolescents, most people have excess energy to spare and need adventure, excitement, and a challenge.

You know how when you get older you actually want to learn? When I went to college, I wasn't as interested in the art history classes as I am now.

In life we always have to learn something, I learn everything daily.

I'm interested in doing anything that teaches me something.

When you're in your twenties, your brain hasn't even finished baking, and your hormones are giving you all kinds of direction of which ways to go.

The truth is, people love to learn.

Other people have suggested that I write about teens because I'm perpetually stuck in that stage of my own development. That could very well be true. I would throw out that teens and tweens are just absolutely fabulous and the most interesting people on the planet. And it is a time of high drama, and everything matters.

L'adolescence est le seul temps o u' l'on ait appris quelque chose. Adolescence is the only time when we can learn something.

I kind of grew up and started maturing.

Adolescence-is it the first time in life we discover that we have something terrible to hide from those who love us?

To do life right, you have to feel like you're growing up until the day you die. The thing I'm proudest of is that I have stayed curious. I have every intention, when I'm on my deathbed, of saying, "Oh, my God - I get it!"

When I was eleven, I just got good.