Carol S. Dweck Quotes
What did you learn today? What mistake did you make that taught you something? What did you try hard at today?
Quotes to Explore
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As a kid, I liked to write, but I didn't think that was a viable career choice. My dream, actually, was to be a white girl rapper and join Salt-N-Pepa - which obviously was a much more viable career choice.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
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Since I began my practice of Forgiveness Therapy, it's now instinctual for me to choose to eat like I love myself - instead of eating like I wanted to punish myself. Plus I've not only lost weight, I've lost the anger and anxiety I was feeling, and so I feel happier and calmer within.
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I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It's tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time.
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I have these long nails, but I literally do nothing to them! The thought of filing my nails drives me insane.
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You cannot make horses 'safe.'
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We need some honesty and sincerity instead of corrupt government in Washington.
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Choose to patronise your local farmers; as eaters, you need to demand a different type of food. Appreciate the pigginess of the pig.
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When I was about 4, my mum had a lime-green Versace jacket with massive shoulder pads, and I remember thinking, 'Why does her head look so small? Why is she doing that to herself?' But she loved it!
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Our stories are different; our pain is the same.
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My mother took my picture to a model agency and the rest is history.
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Putting, say, an 85 per cent income tax rate is unlikely to bring in much revenue.
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Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.
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If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'
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But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection to an accused person, even as to matters of fact; for, if the government can dictate to a jury any law whatever, in a criminal case, it can certainly dictate to them the laws of evidence.
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I hate striking out, doesn't matter what time of the game. I just don't like striking out.
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The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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What did you learn today? What mistake did you make that taught you something? What did you try hard at today?
