Carol S. Dweck Quotes

It is not always people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.

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• I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • World
  • Nothing
  • Greatest

• I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Power
  • Everyone
  • Equal

• 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.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Free
  • Responsibility
  • Media

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • People
  • Time
  • Today

• 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.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Technology
  • Company
  • Retail

• But the working I would always want to do.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Want
  • Always
  • Working

• 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.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Good
  • Power
  • Bad

• Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • City
  • Proud
  • Paris

• 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.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Parents
  • Eat
  • Chubby

• You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • People
  • Time
  • Movie

• 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.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Society
  • Judge
  • View

• 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.

  

  Daniel Dae Kim
  • Great
  • Character
  • Three

• 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.'

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • War
  • Movie

• Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Glory
  • Journalism
  • Surely

• We cannot disguise hostility towards any religion behind the pretence of liberalism.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Religion
  • Liberalism
  • Hostility

• 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.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• 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.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • People
  • Career
  • Relationship

• My two essential ingredients are chilies, any kind, dried or fresh; and acid, whether it's citrus - lemon, lime, yuzu - or vinegars. Food has to pop.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • Food

• Yes, yes, no one denies, for example, that you're going to be able to fix the Murray through the Living Murray process without money, no one denies that.

  

  John Anderson
  • Money

• I am not going to second-guess my old battlefield comrades from Iraq and Afghanistan; each has his own reason for what he has done.

  

  David Petraeus
  • Done

• I have in my head a whole army of people pleading to be let out and awaiting my commands.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People
  • Army

• I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it — and I'm sure I can't tell you whether the fate's good or evil. I don't die — I don't fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I'm just not there.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• It is not always people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.

  

  Carol S. Dweck
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