Carol S. Dweck Quotes
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money.
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My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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How wonderful it was to sit on a set with Norman Mailer and get to know him.
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I experienced American golf courses when I was younger and played a lot of USGA and AJGA tournaments.
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I've always been interested in mindfulness and alternative ways of seeing the world.
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And then, as the years went on, I just kept moving along, busting into doors and getting roles, until I started to actually believe that what these other people were saying was true.
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Bombay, which sold about 120,000 copies, is widely rated as my most successful work, though Roja is definitely the score that brought me where I am today.
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But from a deeper perspective (speaking both objectively and subjectively), thoughts simply arise unauthored and yet author our actions.
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I think they've always gone on. I've gotten some irate letters from oldsters saying 'We did this in the 1930s. You didn't invent anything.' And I'm like, 'Gramps, you should have put a name on it and sold it, because that’s all I did.'
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Comedy lives on in the web and TV, but nobody's pressing comedy albums anymore.
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Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
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It's very American, making a lot of money.
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I'd never seen Rigondeaux's face without it being obscured by headgear or a photograph of Fidel he was holding up after winning a tournament. Finally I saw him, only to recognize the saddest face I'd ever seen in Cuba.
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It's fun to be sarcastic, but now I'm able to express myself in a way that's much more sincere.
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I like green or brown eyes. Tall but not overwhelmingly so. I like men who do yoga and meditate.
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I am burger obsessed and I love playing with the idea of what a burger can be for people. I make burgers out of everything from grains to seafood to, of course, browned meats of every kind. What I love about the burger is it makes food accessible and fun for everyone.
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He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.
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I ought to be more hardboiled; I'd like to be. I don't think I have it in me. To write in clipped sentences. To employ gritty metaphor in the introduction of sultry blondes... I can't do it, so why bother trying?
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Try something new each day. After all, we're given life to find it out. It doesn't last forever.
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...when people already know they're deficient, they have nothing to lose by trying.
