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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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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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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When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Wayne Dyer
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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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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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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 didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.
Kacey Musgraves
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Now I see other kids and their parents, and I compare them to my dad. Our dad was a really normal father when he was with us. We would get grounded if we did something bad. He would ground us. He wouldn't call it grounding; he'd just say, 'You're on punishment.' Sometimes we'd be on punishment a lot.
Paris Jackson
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I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.
Rafael Vinoly
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Private is our DNA, in my DNA. It enables us to make decisions for the long term.
Anthony Pratt
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
Tamsin Egerton
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Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America.
Ira Sachs
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The basic contentions of the argument of this book are implicit in its title and sub-title, namely, that reality is socially constructed and that the sociology of knowledge must analyse the process in which this occurs.
Peter L. Berger
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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
