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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Conformity is dangerous.
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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'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'
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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 wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.
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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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Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.
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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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Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.
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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 can never really enjoy being famous.
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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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All euphemisms are dishonest, but many are designed to make life easier
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Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell developed civilizations can produce good prose. So don't think of poetry as a perverse and unnatural way of distorting ordinary prose statements: prose is a much less natural way of speaking than poetry is. If you listen to small children, and to the amount of chanting and singsong in their speech, you'll see what I mean.
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I am partly not conscious of structure with my movies, but this is when I am writing. I leave my mind very free, and then I correct it after.
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I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.
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I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.
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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!
