Carol S. Dweck Quotes

Exceptional people convert life's setbacks into future successes.

Carol S. Dweck

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• Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Guy

• An actor has to embody a role.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Actor
  • Role
  • Embody

• In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Age
  • Earth
  • Google

• I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.

  

  Laura Linney
  • World
  • Home
  • Greatest

• Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.

  

  Kajol
  • Hand
  • Goals
  • Step

• You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • You
  • Right
  • Counsel

• I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!

  

  Iain Banks
  • Great
  • Nothing
  • Fact

• In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do.

  

  Tate Taylor
  • You
  • Sales
  • Customer

• I worked in feature film casting right out of college and spent a lot of time working with actors, directors, and producers.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Time
  • College
  • Working

• Ronda Rousey changing the game for MMA, you know? Dana White said he'd never have a girl in the Octagon. Ronda Rousey comes along, and she's the main event any time she's on. The women, I feel, in the UFC are stealing the show.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Time
  • Women
  • She

• I'm so grateful that anyone has connected with my songs, let alone millions of people.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Alone
  • Grateful

• A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Story
  • Three
  • Shots

• In high school I was president of the Student Council, and I ended up doing a lot of speeches. After you do a few in front of different schools, you get really comfortable talking in front of an audience.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Up
  • Different
  • School

• Est deus in nobis; agitante calescimus illo:impetus hic sacrae semina mentis habet.

  

  Ovid

• Now I wonder what our knowledge has in common with God's knowledge according to those who treat God's knowledge... Is there anything else common to both besides the mere name? ...there is an essential distinction between His knowledge and ours, like the distinction between the substance of the heavens and that of the earth.

  

  Maimonides
  • God
  • Earth
  • Knowledge

• Welcome to the world of bullshit, my dear. You have arrived.

  

  Elton John
  • World

• Das wahrhaft Schöne, Große und Erhabene, so wie es uns in Erstaunen und Verwunderung setzt, überrascht uns doch nicht als etwas Fremdes, Unerhörtes und Niegesehenes, sondern unser eigenstes Wesen wird uns in solchen Augenblicken klar, unsre tiefsten Erinnerungen werden erweckt, und unsre nächsten Empfindungen lebendig gemacht.

  

  Ludwig Tieck

• The mere knowledge of secrets will not help the amateur conjurer very far on the road to success.

  

  David Devant
  • Success
  • Helping
  • Secret

• The team that gets to play to their plan is usually the team that has the most success.

  

  Mike McCarthy
  • Success
  • Team
  • Plan

• But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more than part of a decoration which was elaborate and beautiful; he told himself strenuously that he must accept with gaiety everything, dreariness and excitement, pleasure and pain, because it added to the richness of the design.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Beautiful

• Exceptional people convert life's setbacks into future successes.

  

  Carol S. Dweck
  • Success
  • Exceptional
  • Setback