Carol S. Dweck Quotes

The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.

Carol S. Dweck

• Children
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• Mistake
• Enjoy
• Challenges
• Parent
• Teach
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• How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• I am a very reclusive, private person.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Person
  • Private
  • Reclusive

• I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Love
  • Playing
  • Just

• 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

• He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Long
  • Sports
  • Win

• When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • War
  • Government
  • Group

• I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Writing
  • Real

• 'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Find
  • Depression
  • Silver

• Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Court
  • Outside
  • Smarter

• They say it all started out with a big bang. But, what I wonder is, was it a big bang or did it just seem big because there wasn't anything else drown it out at the time?

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Time
  • Wonder
  • They Say

• When you start the next project you have to forget everything you did before, otherwise Dark Knight will start to sound like Kung Fu Panda.

  

  Hans Zimmer
  • Dark

• Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes.

  

  Archimedes
  • Balance

• Start with a shovel, wind up with a spoon

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Up
  • Wind

• When I was at AOL, I was always on the web media side while much of the company was focused on the ISP business. We focused on big categories like celebrities and sports, and we created brands around that category like AOL Celebrities, AOL Movies and Fanhouse.

  

  Jim Bankoff
  • Business
  • Sports

• I can't read all the books I want to read, I can't watch all the phenomena that interest me in the world. The work calls me, and sometimes I wonder whether this is an obsession and I should drop it, or it's a necessity I'm obliged to fulfill.

  

  James Hillman
  • World
  • Work
  • Wonder

• I write with humour about sadness, to introduce an element of sweet to the sour, a bit like Turkish food.

  

  Elif Safak
  • Food
  • Sweet

• I started out with machine code and assembly language.

  

  Charles Petzold

• Taken as a whole, Europe's share of world output is projected to fall by almost a third in the next two decades. This is the competitiveness challenge - and much of our weakness in meeting it is self-inflicted. Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon.

  

  David Cameron
  • World
  • Fall
  • Taken

• Day one through three of the radio tour, I actually went by Camaron Ochs. I went to my first set of radio remotes, and everybody was just like 'What's your last name?' It's not easy to pronounce. The first two minutes I got with people, that's what they wanted to talk about, and sometimes those two minutes is all you get.

  

  Cam
  • People
  • Day
  • Name

• One have our biggest challenges if making sure that we are staying true to the mission that we feel called to do, which is writing songs for the church and helping the church connect with God. While the global ministry grows and the influence has been blessed in an amazing way, we are really conscious about staying focused on the families that come into our church every weekend and making sure that we're meeting their needs for whatever season they're in.

  

  Reuben Morgan
  • Challenges
  • Influence
  • Weekend

• [T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions are by means of volcanoes, those burning mountains that seem to discharge their materials from the lowest abysses of the earth.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Earth

• On my first day in New York a guy asked me if I knew where Central Park was. When I told him I didn't, he said: Do you mind if I mug you here?

  

  Paul Merton
  • Mind
  • Guy
  • Said

• The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.

  

  Carol S. Dweck
  • Children
  • Effort
  • Mistake