Carol S. Dweck Quotes

What did you try hard at today?

Carol S. Dweck

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• We earned our dollars in a hard way;, nobody gave us a feast or gave it on a plate. We worked hard and we have innovated; we have made things in a better way at a cheaper rate and gave it to the people of India.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • People
  • Way
  • Better

• I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • Important
  • Question
  • Luck

• We should work to de-link health insurance from employment so if you lose your job, your health insurance goes with you and it is personal, portable and affordable.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Work
  • Job
  • Health

• I'll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi's rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Business
  • Kind
  • Mad

• I can take the steel guitars and fiddles off, we can make it a little more pop, cover ideas that are a little less cowboy. But you got to look at yourself in the mirror and ask, whose flag you are under? For Garth Brooks, I'm steel, fiddles, red, white and blue.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Ideas
  • Red
  • Blue

• Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Love
  • Clothes
  • Luxury

• A clown I knew who was retiring from Ringling Brothers gave me his giant shoes, and somebody else made me a clown suit.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Knew
  • Clown
  • Giant

• I grew up in Madras and did my schooling at St. Bedes and college at Loyola.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Up
  • College
  • Madras

• Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • Parents

• I am just the person who didn't want to settle for not having everything I dreamed of.

  

  Katharine McPhee

• I need a SUV, for me and my four sisters. So, I've narrowed it down to four, kind of expensive, cars.

  

  Alexa Vega

• Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion thing, and I was the keyboard player. I was interested in how the instruments worked and the theory behind playing with them.

  

  Brian McKnight
  • School
  • High
  • Band

• I don't want to have to be beautiful all the time. I want to be able to look cruddy in my weekend sweats, with a pimple on my face and pimple cream on top of the pimple. The expectation to always be beautiful bothers me.

  

  Cindy Crawford
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Weekend

• One of the things I do know is we know very little about our universe. Even though we think we know a lot, and we do know a lot more than we used to, we have a lot to learn about our universe.

  

  Kevin A. Ford
  • Universe

• When people say Jerry Lee Lewis invented rock n' roll, they forget Little Richard. People talk about Elvis Presley and forget he was singing black music. I don't blame Elvis. It was the music business figuring it could make more money from this music if it weren't presented from the original source.

  

  Ato Essandoh
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• When you're invested in your own business, you're going to run it better. When people are financially responsible for whether their store succeeds, they're going to have that kind of entrepreneurial spirit that's harder to get if headquarters is running things.

  

  Fred DeLuca
  • People
  • Business
  • Running

• We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.

  

  Emma Thompson
  • People
  • Time
  • Sad

• The mobile phone is used from when you get up in the morning and is often the last thing you interact with at night.

  

  Jan Chipchase
  • Up
  • Night
  • Morning

• Does what you think of you determine your worth?

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Thinking
  • Doe
  • Determine

• It's easy to see how non-profits become engrossed in catering to donors, which may or may not be the best thing at all times, while if a company is ultra-engaged with its customers, it's universally positive and helpful.

  

  Andrew Yan
  • May
  • Positive

• I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

  

  Penelope Keith
  • Great
  • Live
  • Future

• We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger.

  

  Charlie Dent
  • Time
  • Live
  • Today

• Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Today
  • Language
  • Lying

• What did you try hard at today?

  

  Carol S. Dweck
  • Today
  • Hard