Carol S. Dweck Quotes
Your failures and misfortunes don't threaten other people. . .It's your assets and your successes that are problems for people who derive their self-esteem from being superior.
Quotes to Explore
-
When you really start figuring things out as a quarterback, you realize you don't have to be perfect every time, but you do have to be quick and decisive.
-
Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.
-
I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
-
The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
-
The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
-
Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
-
I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.
-
I used to go in for Disney auditions, and they'd tell me, 'You're cute and nice but just not funny.'
-
Please write music like Wagner, only louder.
-
People think stars never have any problems or cares. That's bull. Why would we show any more than one mask to the public. There's a whole lotta things I've done that I don't want to think about. But I bring it all right out when I need it for a role.
-
The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people.
-
Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out. When he was able to think about it, Jem would be himself again.
-
A veces lo que deseo y lo que no deseo se hacen tantas concesiones que llegan a parecerse.
-
What was shocking to us was that by spreading the energy out across seven beams instead of one, the phototoxicity went way down.
-
You know, it looks like I have a varied resume or a varied career, that I've made interesting choices, when the truth of the matter is, in a way I've just kind of piece-mealed a career together, you know?
-
I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably decided for sure when I saw 'Sounder'.
-
Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to the wonderful land of consensus. In place of honest argument among consenting adults the politicians substitute a lullaby for frightened children: the pretense that conflict doesn't really exist, that we have achieved the blessed state in which we no longer need politics.
-
My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life. So he's kind of been that mom and father figure - always.
-
Our overriding environmental challenge tonight is the worldwide problem of climate change, global warming, the gathering crisis that requires worldwide action.
-
You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.
-
Counting blessings is better than recounting problems
-
We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.
-
My beauty routine is basically plenty of sleep and lots of water.
-
Your failures and misfortunes don't threaten other people. . .It's your assets and your successes that are problems for people who derive their self-esteem from being superior.
