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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Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt.
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We are shifting into an enjoyment-based economy. And who knows more about making enjoyment than game developers?
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Protestants in France are under intolerable despotism. Although open persecution does not now exist, yet it depends upon the whim of the king, queen, parliament, or any of the ministry.
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When I was eight or nine, I wrote a new version of 'Peter Pan' for the school play. They didn't use it - I imagine it was unperformable - but as recompense for not doing my script, I was offered any role, and instinctively went for Captain Hook. I came on trying to be terrifying, but everyone laughed at me.
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I'm not trying to win individual awards.
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...when people already know they're deficient, they have nothing to lose by trying.
