Carol S. Dweck Quotes

You’re in charge of your mind. You can help it grow by using it in the right way.

Carol S. Dweck

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• I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • People
  • Mind
  • Man

• I'm usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they've aired. But I love 'House of Cards,' 'The Killing,' 'Orange Is the New Black,' loved 'True Detective,' and 'Arrested Development' when it was on. Also 'The Wire,' though I was way late to the game on that.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • True
  • Game
  • Way

• I remember the first time my mind was blown by an actor was Tim Curry, because I loved 'Clue' when I was a kid, and then I was watching the movie 'Legend,' and the Devil suddenly smiles, and I was like, 'It's the same guy!' It was a total Keyser Soeze moment.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Remember

• I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.

  

  Zendaya
  • Way
  • Change
  • Speak

• I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Mind
  • Feel
  • Ready

• There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Acting

• Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Family
  • Way
  • Existence

• Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much is expected to be manipulated - curated, contrived, edited. I think that's a real detriment to self expression and happiness in a lot of ways. In my mind, honesty and vulnerability is the way forward.

  

  K. Flay
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Real

• I took a 51 day trip through Asia; 12 countries and 26 cities. I traveled for 51 days. So, it was everywhere from Sri Lanka and that all the way to Japan, where we ended it.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Way
  • Day
  • Where

• It was always in the back of my mind while we were working on the first year of 'Rookie' that we'd do a print version at some point.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Mind
  • First
  • Year

• I'm putting myself out there in a way I don't know if I ever have before.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Way
  • Know
  • Myself

• I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Way
  • Player
  • Guitar

• I started gigging when I was about 16, and I was way too young to be in the clubs.

  

  Imelda May
  • Way
  • Young
  • Started

• I don't mind running; I don't mind taking a few knocks. But hopefully, it's just not 'Sam's an action dude.' That, to me, is not what I wanted. I wanted to bring a sense of weight and emotionality of doing Australian films and bring that into a bigger blockbuster, so you're not just kind of grunting and groaning and running around.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Mind
  • Action
  • Hopefully

• I've now been in over 100 adverts for Walkers, and we've had a lot of laughs along the way.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Way
  • Now
  • Over

• I think the body is the ultimate thing. The soul and mind are part of the body. I don't think there is anything outside of that. Your physical self is who you are. Some people feel that that is reductionist, but I don't think it is. It's just true.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Mind
  • True

• Stick up for what you believe in and never, ever feel that you can't say something or speak your mind. I think that would be the best advice. Be strong. Be confident. That's really all you need.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Mind

• I don't mind doing action or kung fu, but I'm also really happy to do something dramatic. I'd like to show that a Chinese girl doesn't have to do crazy martial arts to get the part.

  

  Zhu Zhu
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Girl

• Your body hears everything your mind says.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Mind
  • Health
  • Body

• Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee.

  

  John Jay Hooker
  • Money
  • Effort

• Outside of taking care of a man’s needs, women don’t get much pleasure out of life, anyways.

  

  Charles Willeford
  • Life
  • Women
  • Pleasure

• You’re in charge of your mind. You can help it grow by using it in the right way.

  

  Carol S. Dweck
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Grows