Carol S. Dweck Quotes
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When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
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A zombie apocalypse isn't the most jovial situation.
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Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.
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Indians felt despondent about Indian governance. Changing that atmosphere of gloom was a very challenging task, and I faced many difficulties in rectifying the situation and bringing back confidence and hope.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
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I think making the referee aware of a situation, there is nothing wrong with that.
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I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.
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Be open and honest, but perceptive to your boss's situation. That's my advice to graduates worried about working with a new boss.
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There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.
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I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.
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If we could reach the point where many of our nation's future leaders know what teachers know after teaching successfully in our highest-need schools, we would have a very different situation.
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There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that.
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The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.
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If a hundred people want autographs, sometimes you have to say no because you've got to get up for a 4 A.M. flight or something. In that sense, it really pisses me off when people think you've become a diva. It's not becoming a diva, it's because of the situation, I think.
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Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he fell back on an old habit of looking ahead to the next defeat.
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We've all kind of been in a similar situation. In my case it was a racquetball tournament.
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Having kids is something you can't always do. Kids are like lightning. You grab that lightning when you can get it.
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In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality.
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Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment.
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...philosophy is more often the systematization of the prejudices of philosophers than the systematization of nature. Distrust all generalizations: stick to the concrete.
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What can I learn from this? What will I do next time I'm in this situation?
