Carol S. Dweck Quotes

For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you accomplish the things you value.

Carol S. Dweck

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• My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Career

• I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Up
  • Work
  • Writer

• My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Age
  • Me
  • Dad

• If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Up
  • Work
  • Important

• The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Age
  • Youth
  • Arrogance

• I've won plenty of games by knowing when to take out my pitcher; whom to replace him with; or how to place my infield or outfield to defend properly against the opposing hitter.

  

  Walter Alston
  • Place
  • Games
  • Him

• When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Remember
  • Logic

• 'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Book
  • Kids
  • Small

• There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully it will happen.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Want
  • Science
  • Project

• We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Women
  • True
  • Slavery

• When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. Even though religion was a big part of the civil rights and peace movements, in my college religion was treated as irrelevant, hopelessly stodgy, and behind the times.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Time
  • America
  • Culture

• The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.

  

  Lael Brainard
  • Loss
  • China
  • Software

• I hardly ever watch the news... I love reading newspapers, but I know they're dying out.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Know
  • Reading
  • Dying

• I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Live
  • Models
  • Bunch

• People think you have pressure when you are young. It's the other way round, actually.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Think
  • Pressure

• It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Up
  • Interesting
  • English

• When you're put in a position to really affect young people who are going to run the world one day, if you're able to be in their life at a young age and make a positive impact, I think that's a beautiful thing.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I was a club kid. I was on the cover of 'New York' magazine and discovered like that.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • New
  • New York
  • Club

• I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Work
  • Day
  • Research

• I think it's real important to enjoy what you do, have fun with it and not to put the pressure on yourself of everyone watching.

  

  T.J. Dillashaw
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Real

• Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Opportunity
  • Woman

• I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • School
  • High
  • College

• In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Experience
  • Wisdom
  • Gathered

• For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you accomplish the things you value.

  

  Carol S. Dweck
  • Persons
  • Values
  • Research