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

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

  

  Imelda May
  • Way
  • Young
  • Started

• 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 have said repeatedly that the way to sustainable growth is to bring down inflation to much more reasonable levels.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Way
  • Growth
  • Down

• The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Experience

• I personally do not listen to a lot of music. It helps keep my mind free. I don't want to sound like someone else from the get-go. I want to express myself and the world in my head.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • World
  • Music
  • Mind

• You are not in control of your mind-because you, as a conscious agent, are only part of your mind, living at the mercy of other parts.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Mercy

• Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing, but is alone itself by itself.

  

  Anaxagoras
  • Mind
  • Alone

• I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Time
  • Drunk

• Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thought I was nice so they wouldn't touch me. It was infuriating to them.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • God
  • Nice

• I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.

  

  Frank Black
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Song

• ...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.

  

  Ian Caldwell
  • Wall
  • Standing
  • Saws

• I felt that everyone had the same sentiments when it came to love that I did. I felt like if you really cared for somebody, then that was it. It never occurred to me that people could lie about the way they felt about you. I had to learn that the hard way. About, Came, Cared, Could, Did, Everyone, Felt, Had, Hard, Hard Way, Learn, Lie, Like, Love, Me, Never, Occurred, People, Really, Same, Sentiments, Somebody, Then, To Love, Way, You

  

  Musiq Soulchild
  • People
  • Really
  • About

• 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