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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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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The love scenes that worked, regardless of the director, were the ones where the actors weren't fearful. When somebody was fearful, you could see it right away. It takes you out of the story, and that's to be avoided at all costs.
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If you're a coach, you're a teacher.
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I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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...when people already know they're deficient, they have nothing to lose by trying.
