Carol S. Dweck Quotes

Creating organizations that value a growth mindset can create contexts in which more people grow into the knowledgeable, visionary, and responsible leaders we need.

Carol S. Dweck

Recitation: by Male by Female

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GrowthValuePeopleMindsetGrow

It's amazing how unwilling most people are to admit they don't know the answer to a question or a problem and instead charge forward on a 'gut instinct' that turns out to be crap.

Stephen J. Dubner

PeopleAmazingForwardProblemKnow

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.

Stephen Ambrose

PowerManBrokenWorldPowerful

War and peace type products... cannot be added into a national product total until the differences in the valuation due to differences in the institutional mechanisms that determine their respective market prices are corrected for.

Simon Kuznets

PeaceWarDifferencesProductMarket

The way forward for Africa is investment.

Mo Ibrahim

ForwardInvestmentAfricaWay

That's one of the things I love about entrepreneurship is that if you see something that you don't like - and if you think you have a better idea - you can pursue your model.

Jason Calacanis

LoveThinkBetterYouSeePursue

As the founder of your company, you must be in love with your brand and inspired by your brand's mission if you have any hope of getting press for your product.

Jason Calacanis

LoveHopeBrandMissionYouCompany

The only way I survived at school was by doing impersonations of teachers and pupils. That led to me winning a talent competition when I was 16; the prize was three or four gigs in working men's clubs. I was just showing off: at the time, I thought that's what acting was.

Douglas Hodge

TimeMenSchoolCompetitionTalent

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.

Dean Koontz

SaidHorrorLikeWriterMillion

When I first read the story 'Guts' in workshop - my fellow writers that I've been meeting with for almost 20 years - they laughed; they didn't have any kind of shock reaction.

Chuck Palahniuk

StoryMeetingKindReactionFirst

The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material.

Bryan Cranston

ControlSayYesOnlyAbleMaterial

Arthur Russell is very important to me on many levels, and when I read Tim Lawrence's biography on him, 'Hold on to Your Dreams,' one of the things I took away was: first thought, best thought. I live by that when I make my own music.

Arca

DreamsLiveMusicYour DreamsBest

I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.

Ryan Murphy

MoneySchoolParentsMeToo Much

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