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" At various points, in big ways and small, we get knocked down. If we stay down, grit loses. If we get up, grit prevails. "
Angela Duckworth
" Chew on this: Human teeth can detect a grain of sand or grit 10 microns in diameter. A micron is 1/25,000 of an inch. If you shrank a Coke can until it was the diameter of a human hair, the letter O in the product name would be about 10 microns across. "
Mary Roach
" England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty place, from coal dust and smoke, from the grit stirred up every day by the jackhammers still clearing out rubble from the Blitz. "
Alexander Cockburn
" For me, writing post-apocalyptic novels isn't so much about exploding helicopters and fifty-megaton doomsday bombs as it is about the pleasure of dealing with the best of everything that makes us human: cleverness, grit, loyalty, and self-sacrifice. "
Jeff Carlson
" From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and violence has been quite mythologized. "
Rachel Kushner
" Grit and self-control are related, but they're not the same thing. "
Angela Duckworth
" Grit can't be measured on pop quizzes, but it can often predict long-term success more than mere intelligence. "
Laura Moser
" Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it's not just stamina in your effort. It's also stamina in your direction, stamina in your interests. If you are working on different things but all of them very hard, you're not really going to get anywhere. You'll never become an expert. "
Angela Duckworth
" Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint. "
Angela Duckworth
" Grittier students are more likely to earn their diplomas; grittier teachers are more effective in the classroom. Grittier soldiers are more likely to complete their training, and grittier salespeople are more likely to keep their jobs. The more challenging the domain, the more grit seems to matter. "
Angela Duckworth
" Grit your teeth and smile. In the face of adversity, go. They don't deserve you. "
Christine Lagarde
" Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit. "
Wade Davis
" Humans are creatures of habit. If you quit when things get tough, it gets that much easier to quit the next time. On the other hand, if you force yourself to push through it, the grit begins to grow in you. "
Travis Bradberry
" I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster. "
Richard Eyre
" I got down to business and started writing furiously. I wore my fingers down to a callous state writing with every Tom, Dick and Harry around the world, including a chap named Charlie who plays for a man named Bob, to wrestle my emotions and bring out the raw grit hiding in my tightly guarded sub-conscious. "
Gin Wigmore
" I like high fantasy as much as the next guy, but I also like a bit of grit and grime with my faux-medieval trappings. "
Antony Johnston
" I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot. "
Daniel Day-Lewis
" In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth. "
Yasser Arafat
" In 'True Grit,' we had a vulture, a trained vulture... that was a pain and that was - even by vulture standards - probably a stupid vulture, and that was frustrating. "
Ethan Coen
" In Wyoming, the beauty of our mountains is matched only by the grit of our people. "
Liz Cheney
" I think the biggest thing to being an elite-level bobsledder is grit. You have to really want it. It's a very blue-collar sport. We do a lot of the work ourselves; we sand the runners, we wash the sled, we help maintain the sled. Obviously, we have a sled mechanic that travels with us, but a lot of the work we do ourselves. "
Lauren Gibbs
" It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. "
Jessamyn West
" It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself. "
Tom Chapin
" I want you to think about your grandfather's integrity and grit when you're staring at the ceiling of your barracks room, but I also want you to think a little deeper. "
David Robinson
" I would say I'm more traditional than I am superstitious. I don't, for example, have to do things ritually before the game in order to feel comfortable going to the game. But I don't think I'm naturally a football player. I don't have that grit and that killer instinct. "
Troy Polamalu
" Millennials get a bad rap sometimes about their grit and perseverance. "
Andrew Yang
" Most teachers, when surveyed, say that it is part of their job to help students develop things like grit. This is especially true at the elementary and middle school levels. They feel it's part of their vocation to teach other things that are not formally academic content. "
Angela Duckworth
" My favorite bands are Hank Williams Jr. and Led Zeppelin. When it's rock, it's '70s rock, and when it's country, it's '70s country. For me, it's the grit and dirt of music that I love so much. "
Shooter Jennings
" No one ever wants fight of the night. Every fight I've gone in, I want knockout of the night. I want to be in and out quick. Sometimes, these guys just have a lot of grit - they're highly trained, and I just can't get them out of there, so I get fight of the night. "
Robbie Lawler
" Of course, 'True Grit' is a Western, but we never considered our film a classical Western and honestly never thought about genre at all. We didn't talk about John Ford or Sergio Leone, even though we like their films. Really, we were driven only by our enthusiasm for Charles Portis's book. "
Ethan Coen
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