Carol S. Dweck Quotes
Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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I think when you're dealing with very tenuous scenes and difficult and heavy subject matter, it's important to be close intimately with your cast as friends, and be able to diffuse a lot of that tension and trust each other with the work.
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It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?
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This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer.
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In the jungle, every day is like the other. So you need to have a special discipline to make things different and to keep in your memory the dates and the days. And I think that's something that's very important when you are held hostage.
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Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
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It's the comedy that guides me. The acting and all that stuff comes second. It's equally important, but I just try to do that as best as I can.
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As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.
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Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road.
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At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to learn when the post office is open. Trivia looms important; critical issues fade into a pastel background, unrecognized.
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It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.
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I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.
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We found out tonight how important and how crucial momentum swings can be. I thought we were playing very well. We were doing a lot of positive things but then we lost the puck two times in our zone and things swung their way. You can't afford to give teams momentum.
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I don't care what other people are doing.
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Philanthropists can learn important lessons from business entrepreneurs. They both spend their time solving problems. And to be successful, they both must overcome physical challenges and create self-sustaining operations. And ultimately, they must allow people to take action for their own benefit.
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There has no doubt to be fundamental research in science, but applied research is equally important for new improvements and changes in our techniques.
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Everyone is in need of encouragement at some time. Take the opportunity today to encourage (give courage to) the one who often encourages you.
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You learn as you grow up, if you're intelligent - or even three-quarter witted - that there's no free lunch. You pay for things in various ways. Living, loving, everything else is a matter of the same principles: you learn to work with what you have.
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I do not think that any realism is beautiful.
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He is already past the high point in his life and coming down on the other side. By next week he'll be nostalgia. He's 12 years old, and it's over for him.
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I have learned very quickly where my strengths are, and color coordination of particular things is not a strong suit.
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Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it.
