Salman Khan Quotes

I decided to praise my son not when he succeeded at things he was already good at, but when he persevered with things that he found difficult. I stressed to him that by struggling, your brain grows. Between the deep body of research on the field of learning mindsets and this personal experience with my son, I am more convinced than ever that mindsets toward learning could matter more than anything else we teach.

Salman Khan

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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.

Maajid Nawaz
- Made
- Tolerance
- Liberal
President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.

Karen Mills
- President
- Priority
- Top
I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.

Xavier Dolan
- Knowledge
- Movies
- Legacy
Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.

Adam Grant
- Values
- Emotions
- Step
There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

Ramez Naam
- Action
- Worry
- Optimism
I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.

Sam Houston
- Time
- School
- Father