Angela Duckworth Quotes

Both of my sisters have been teachers and they used to say you get asked between 300 and 600 questions every day which you have to answer. That's exactly what directing is. And the vast majority of those questions are not very interesting really, but they need somebody to make a decision - a good one or a bad one - and they follow it.

I never intended to be a teacher, but once I started teaching, I found that junior high kids are easy to get hooked on, and I stayed for nearly twenty years.

I love teaching. I love working with kids... maybe some day I'll go back to the classroom. I'm not ready to say it'll never happen.

I'm getting certified to become a teacher because I love it so much.

I feel like I'd be a really good teacher. I would go for middle school... those high schoolers would be difficult to deal with.

My time at the Denver Public Schools taught me there is no harder, or more important, job than being a teacher.

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

When I started out in life I wanted to teach.

I am a teacher. It's how I define myself. A good teacher isn't someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed. That's the way I see myself, so whatever it is that I will do eventually after politics, it'll have to do a lot with teaching.

I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.

I feel really good in the teacher role.

I believe there's not a harder job in the world than being a teacher, and there isn't a job with a more direct impact on the performance of our students.

I've never had the patience of a teacher.

I see myself as an educator.

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

My daughter became a teacher right out of college.

Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.

Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.

I was an elementary school teacher.

Teachers are performers, just like I am.

Teaching is not the work in which a man can live and grow.

Teaching is the profession that makes all other professions possible and yet we do not treat teachers as professionals.

I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side.