Carol S. Dweck Quotes

No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

Carol S. Dweck

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• Ability
• Accomplishment
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• I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Feeling
  • Face
  • Shoulders

• Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Why
  • Science
  • Political

• The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • People
  • Me
  • Years

• Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Important
  • Balance
  • Find

• The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Happy
  • Kind
  • Sound

• I think we have still to get to a place where we feel satisfied. We have this saying - 'In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king'. We are a little bit that way.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • King

• We abandoned the appearance of power to preserve the essence of it.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Power

• Oh my gravy!

  

  Rachael Ray

• Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as 'grace under pressure' - grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • May
  • Fear
  • Courage

• It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Effort

• Women's sport helps break down a lot of barriers for women in other areas, whether in religion or politics.

  

  Clare Balding
  • Women

• If directors, actors and writers have the ability to drop their alpha-male egos, you will always get better work. In terms of my own demands, I actually want fewer lines. If I can lose a line and do it with my face, I'd rather do that.

  

  Max Beesley Incognito
  • Work

• Being an artist is being at the service of yourself; I am at the service of other people.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • People
  • Service

• Romney is not funny. When he tries to be, it often comes across as awkward.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • Funny

• I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • People
  • Work
  • Hate

• I never thought I would really like to be on television, and the story of me getting into it was quite lucky, really, just a series of chance encounters. So I am not exactly putting myself across as a celebrity, although people might perceive me that way.

  

  Louis Theroux
  • People
  • Celebrity

• It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character.

  

  David Ogden Stiers
  • Important
  • Character

• I believe, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., that there is such a thing as being too late, and when it comes to climate change, that hour is almost upon us.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Words
  • King

• I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.

  

  Stephen Harper
  • Support
  • Marriage
  • Traditional

• I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • God
  • Think
  • Man

• The United States, Russia, and China are the only three countries in the world that can launch astronauts into space. Mostly in the U.S. you see some companies trying to launch private commercial people into space, but nobody's done it yet. The only private vehicle that's made it into space so far is Spaceship 1 in 2004, and that was an effort that was funded by one of the Microsoft founders, and he spent about $20 million to develop this spacecraft to do a sub-orbital flight. And it's not the same as going into orbit, but it was a huge first step.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• Enduring to the end is definitely not a do-it-yourself project.

  

  L. Tom Perry
  • Ends
  • Projects
  • Enduring To The End

• No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

  

  Carol S. Dweck
  • Effort
  • Ability
  • Accomplishment