Carol S. Dweck Quotes
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
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I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
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But the working I would always want to do.
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Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
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Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.
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I am actually a bit chubby, and I eat everything. I eat in a way - if my parents fed me the way I choose to eat as an adult, they would've lost custody.
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You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.
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The Royal Society view is completely apolitical: it will judge anything based on the evidence. One of the big strengths of the Society is that is it widely perceived as impartial and above the fray. We'd like to make sure it stays that way.
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What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence.
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In general, I hate films that are overtly either very masculine or very feminine, you know? The same way that I don't like a war movie about soldiers smashing people's heads. But a chick flick I like would be Cassavetes' movies. 'A Woman Under the Influence,' 'Husbands.'
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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We cannot disguise hostility towards any religion behind the pretence of liberalism.
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I tell my staff, 'Give me your best, and then go home and live your life.' I've never asked anyone to work harder, but I've told plenty that they needed rest.
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Social media, for me, is about interacting with people who follow my career. I don't think my relationship has anything to do with my career.
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Clothes are particularly hard to value. While cars and high-tech gadgets - Maseratis, Audemars Piguet watches, and first-generation iPhones - offer not only performance but the cachet of a visibly rich item, clothing does less to convey what you spent on it. Clothes get stained and snagged, and they go out of style quickly.
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Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.
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My hobbies away from horse racing would be reading and painting; I love art.
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Headline writing is tough because often times you are given a predetermined number of spaces and words depending on the layout and the type of the story.
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The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets.
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It is not always people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.
