Carol S. Dweck Quotes

Choosing a partner is choosing a set of problems. There are no problem-free candidates.

Carol S. Dweck

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• What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Me

• The problem of different sensitivities of distinct protein groups to lysosomal inhibitors has remained unsolved and may have served as an important trigger in the future quest for a non-lysosomal proteolytic system that may be involved in at least certain aspects of intracellular protein degradation.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Different
  • Important
  • May

• That's the problem with having a bald head. It exaggerates the shape.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Problem
  • Head
  • Bald

• The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Long
  • Real
  • Business

• If I couldn't see the colors, now that would be a problem.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Problem
  • See
  • Colors

• Our problem is not adopting reforms, which we will do without question. It is not reaching an objective, which we will meet. But it is finding an end to the recession.

  

  Yannis Stournaras
  • Question
  • Problem
  • End

• I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • World
  • May
  • Problem

• Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you.

  

  Ice T
  • Work
  • Great
  • Problem

• Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Long
  • May
  • Day

• If the government would like to hire my services to maximize value for their stake, they should approach me. No problem.

  

  Dan Gertler
  • Government
  • Problem
  • Value

• I do take responsibility for it. I admit to having a problem. I have been to numerous treatment centers.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Problem
  • Responsibility

• My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't like them.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Me
  • Problem
  • Like

• It used to be if you wanted something nice to wear, you would sew it yourself for your body type. Women before the 20th century didn't have this problem. Now, it seems we're all squeezed into random designs. They're designed for no one.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Women
  • Nice
  • Problem

• I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

  

  Malcolm X
  • American
  • Man
  • Black

• YouTube is a problem. It has very big traffic, but it refuses to contribute to the weight of that traffic.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Problem
  • YouTube
  • Traffic

• Making bad decisions and choosing the wrong partner can ruin your life for a long time, perhaps forever.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Oliver . . . well. Who knew if Oliver’s problem was the disease or just a bad attitude?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Bad
  • Problem
  • Attitude

• A problem with my novels is that they, from the start, have been infantile and incredibly childish. There are childishness, stupidity, lack of wisdom, fantasies. At the same time, that's where my creativity can be found. If I tried to control it and make it more mature, it wouldn't be good at all. It'd be uninteresting, without any vivacity.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Time
  • Good
  • Control

• I was quite eager to work, anytime somebody was offering me a job, if I liked the role. Because I was always very discriminating from the very beginning, in the sense that I had absolutely no problem saying no to jobs when they came along if somehow they didn't fit into my universe - whatever that was.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Work
  • Job
  • Problem

• The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Free
  • Giving
  • Woman

• You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Life
  • Want
  • Face

• Now comes what I perhaps inflatedly call my philosophy of knitting. Like many philosophies, it is hard to express in a few words. Its main tenets are enjoyment and satisfaction, accompanied by thrift, inventiveness, an appearance of industry, and, above all, resourcefulness.

  

  Elizabeth Zimmermann
  • Philosophy
  • Industry
  • Satisfaction

• Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.

  

  Epictetus
  • Challenge
  • Trouble
  • Caretake

• Choosing a partner is choosing a set of problems. There are no problem-free candidates.

  

  Carol S. Dweck
  • Problem
  • Partners
  • Candidates