Carol S. Dweck Quotes

The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it's not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset.

Carol S. Dweck

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• I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.

  

  Ed Westwick
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• Being an offensive lineman, you always have the mindset of being an unsung hero - a lot of the people who look at the game follow the ball.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
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• We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
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• I like deconstructing things. I like cutting the legs out from under something that feels secret.

  

  Rachel Bloom
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• My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.

  

  Harriet Walter
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• A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.

  

  Daniel Boone
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• God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

  

  Saint Augustine
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• It feels nice to be loved, but let me tell you there are 10 times more better looking, stylish and talented guys than me. So there's no solid reason for me to be proud! I don't think I have done anything extraordinary to change people's lives.

  

  Salman Khan
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• When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.

  

  Barbara Hale
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• All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.

  

  Larry Cohen
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• There is such a polarized discussion of economics among people like analysts, columnists, bloggers; often, they end up just saying that views other than their own should not even be discussed. I find that frustrating. There is no intellectual progress without considering lots and lots of different views.

  

  Adam Davidson
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• Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.

  

  Vida Blue
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• In Australia, there is a very famous show called 'Home and Away.' I was cast on that at 15. The day I started filming, my life changed.

  

  Tammin Sursok
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• As women, we are constantly criticising and judging ourselves in terms of our body, how we dress, what profession we take up, how we fare in that. Indian women are gifted with certain body types and features, which is healthy, and we should accept that.

  

  Vidya Balan
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• Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
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• In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.

  

  Vernor Vinge
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• I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

  

  Edmund White
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• I can't promise my child a life without bias - we're all biased - but I promise to bias my child with multiple perspectives.

  

  K.K. Raghava
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• With the Internet, we can communicate instantly across the globe, but the net also makes it possible for us to shrink ever further into our own skins - a state of being that neither suits the human temperament nor provides ground for further growth.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
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• The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it.

  

  Fred W. Friendly
  • Pride

• We always wanted to be a big infra player in India - in sectors such as energy, healthcare, education, locomotives, etc.

  

  John L. Flannery
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  • Player

• The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it's not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset.

  

  Carol S. Dweck
  • Passion
  • Growth
  • Mindset