Carol S. Dweck Quotes
So what should we say when children complete a task—say, math problems—quickly and perfectly? Should we deny them the praise they have earned? Yes. When this happens, I say, “Whoops. I guess that was too easy. I apologize for wasting your time. Let’s do something you can really learn from!
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.
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In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.
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Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.
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While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope.
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The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.
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I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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I'm not one of these actresses like, 'Okay, where's the camera? Is it here? Is it here?' I don't even ask the questions because I don't really want to know. I like not performing for a camera but giving it my best every single time whether you're close or whether you're far.
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Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.
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Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.
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We know that if religion is allowed into schools, pupils will sometimes begin to question the teaching they receive.
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The U.K. crowds always have a lot of energy, and I've done some milestone shows there that I'm very proud of.
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I don't like modeling, but in terms of the places I got to visit, it was great.
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A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
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Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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It would be a significant problem and it would move in exactly the wrong direction.
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Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.
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So what should we say when children complete a task—say, math problems—quickly and perfectly? Should we deny them the praise they have earned? Yes. When this happens, I say, “Whoops. I guess that was too easy. I apologize for wasting your time. Let’s do something you can really learn from!
