Carol S. Dweck Quotes
Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end up.
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To ensure stable and sustainable economic growth, world leaders must re-examine the international rules of the monetary game, with advanced and emerging economies alike adopting more mutually beneficial monetary policies.
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If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.
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Gains in corporate profits depend in large part on accelerating global economic growth.
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Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.
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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
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Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
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A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.
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With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.
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Endorsing unconventional monetary policies unquestioningly is tantamount to saying that it is acceptable to distort asset prices if there are other domestic constraints on growth.
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Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers.
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I think there are too many bosses in Washington telling Nashville Diesel College and Harvard University how to run - how to run their campuses, and I'd like to reduce the number of Washington regulations on higher education and keep this marketplace of wonderful institutions among which students can choose; that's oriented toward job growth.
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Good tests can help teachers determine how their students are performing and identify the areas in which their students need assistance. Like an X-ray, however, tests can diagnose, but they cannot cure.
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If Indians were not largehearted, they wouldn't have made so much of progress and delivered growth.
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The key to a resilient global recovery, where growth in each country advances growth in every country, is action directed at supporting demand at home.
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Many of our problems are home-grown. Gordon Brown regularly advised the rest of the world to follow his British model of growth. But the model was flawed. It led to the highest level of household debt in relation to income in the world.
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The greatest problem for the human race, to the solution of which Nature drives man, is the achievement of a universal civic society which administers law among men.
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The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and … each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
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Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.
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Growth and progress are related, for there is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy.
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Live High, Live Mighty, Live Righteously
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For all of us it’s the things that won’t work that keep our interest.
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World economies are always so tenuous and we are subject to so many losses in life, but a compassionate attitude is something we can always carry with us.
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I've been amazed at how fast and herd-like opinions in the United States are.
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Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end up.
