Carol S. Dweck Quotes

What did you try hard at today?

Carol S. Dweck

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• We just here to do our job.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Job
  • Just
  • Here

• 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

• Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Art
  • Never
  • Same

• 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

• Iran can never get a nuclear weapon, and it never will as long as I have anything to say about it.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Long
  • Never
  • Anything

• 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

• Doubts about the fundamentals of the gospel exist in certain churches, I am told, to a large extent. My dear friends, where there is a warm-hearted church, you do not hear of them. I never saw a fly light on a red-hot plate.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Friends
  • Light
  • Church

• Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • Parents

• I'm terrified of heights, but I think there's something really beautiful about birds and soaring, having a bird's-eye view of the world.

  

  Lindy Booth
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Bird

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

  

  Katharine McPhee

• There are lots of things I won't eat but would like to, such as croissants or ice cream - if I started, I'd scoff the whole tub.

  

  Marie Helvin

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

  

  Alexa Vega

• I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.

  

  Jewel Kilcher

• 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 never get bored. There isn't enough time in the day for me.

  

  Francoise Hardy
  • Time
  • Bored

• The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Play

• My grandma passed away from cancer, and actually, when I was 18, I had an experience with melanoma – it's in the family. I had that experience where everything comes into perspective. It's the weirdest thing, 'cause you're like, 'It will never happen to me,' and when it does, it's like, 'OK, wow.'

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Family
  • Experience
  • Me

• It's amazing how email has changed our lives. You ever get a handwritten letter in the mail today? 'What the? Has someone been kidnapped?'

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Today
  • Changed
  • Letters

• What did you try hard at today?

  

  Carol S. Dweck
  • Today
  • Hard